FroggerBeginner - Intermediate
Submitted by Brion Matthews
Urban fringe
Loop
Undulating, small hills only
Native bushOpen farmlandsOpen tussock/grasslands
Beginner - Intermediate
1:00 (Slow)
0:45 (Moderate)
0:30 (Fast)
-13.1%
+13.1%
Fastest Known Times (FKTs)
Please set your gender to see your position on the FKT leaderboards.
The more , the harder the FKT will be to beat. Learn about Fastest Known Times.
Description
Start out at the bottom of Richmond Hill Road and run the footpath until the hairpin (around 300m).
At the hairpin there is the start of a walking track that heads up the gully. Follow the track until reaching a small bluff where you take a quick deviation to the right to ascend the bluff before reconnecting onto the Richmond Hill walking track.
This is not technical and is easy going. (If you have time, it is worth following the faint hint of a track leading rightwards up from the bluff. It connects onto an old but overgrown walking track that carries on for around 500m before dead ending at the bluffs visible from Nayland Street down below).
Carry on up, past the stiles at Clifton Terrace and follow onto the Frog Pond track that will take you up to Summit Road. Listen out for the frogs. Pause for a breath before turning around and heading back downhill.
Take the right most gravel farm road and veer off to the right towards Windsor Castle about where the sheep yards are.
Follow around the tops of Windsor Castle, taking a natural line towards the trig. You will need to pass through a few farm gates to do so. Take in the unique views at the trig before scurrying down the back side of it.
You will see a passage of worn rock leading down the back through some terraces and down some old stone-built steps. Take a natural line down towards the houses before swinging left towards the large gate at the top of Richmond Hill Road. Cross over the gate and amble the short section of road until just past Whiterock Lane, where to the left is a reserve that flows downwards towards the frog pond area.
After the gate, instead of taking the major track back up the valley, there is a smaller track to the right that will connect you back to the Richmond Hill walking track. If you miss this, the other track will link up anyway. A rock cairn is placed at the corner, which you may have noticed on the way up. Smash the downhill back to the road. Alternatively start at the Clifton Hill stiles.
Trail Community
Make Up of Run
Untracked / Route only: 10%
Moderate Single Track: 30%
Easy Single Track: 40%
Farm Road / 4WD Track: 5%
Sealed Road: 15%
Route Data
Reviews:
Overlapping Runs
The following trails overlap with this run to some degree. You may wish to combine them but please note that to qualify for FKTs on these runs you should record a separate Strava activity for each
Punk Rock Assault On Windsor Castle
Length: 12.00km
Photos:
Your Trail Wishlist
All the runs that are on your To Do list (no limit).
Add to wishlist view wishlistWild Explorers
I did it!-
Access
Start of Richmond HIll Road at intersection of Nayland Street.
Park on Nayland Street or low down on Richmond Hill Road.
13 km
22 minutes
No
No
-
Staying Safe
Moderate.
Generally good.
Whistle, First aid kit, Extra food for emergencies, Cellphone, Map.
There is a tap by the water tank at the farm road by Eastenders that requires a very small deviation to get to near the top of the Frog Pond climb.
Richmond Hill track can be very slippery after rain.
-
Sponsor this trail
See other runs nearby:
Godley Head loop
Lyttelton to Diamond Harbour
Halswell and Kennedys
Summit Walkway
The Bowenvale Elevator
The Gorsetrack Strikes Back
Rapaki Sugarloaf Return
Sign Of The Takahe - Rapaki
Port Hills Nearly Half Marathon
Horse Longitudes
Horse Latitudes
Sumner Half Heads
Whigs' Flying Fifty (WFF)
VKV challenge
Banks Peninsula Ultra Beer Run
Bottle Lake Blue Loop
Gebbies to Packhorse Romp
Hagley Figure of 8
Bowenvale / Huntsbury Loop
Avon City Loops
Avon - Source to Surf
Okuti to Hilltop Amble
Gondola Gallop
Orton Bradley Loop
The ATH (Around The Harbour)
Lava - H.ELL Loop
Travis Wetland Loop
Punk Rock Assault On Windsor Castle
The Guv'nor & His Birds
The Crater Rim
Lava Lite
Takahe Half
North New Brighton Spit
Mt Pleasant Trig
God's Con - Rehab Road
Gang of Four
Dog Sniffing Rhythms - Harbour Crusin'
Trinity - Harbour Bruisin'
Gates Of The East
Hunting Out A Gorge-ous Loop
Lyttelton Dress Circle
A Diamond in the Rough
Port Hills Spur Challenge!
Up Hill Down Valley
The Coffee Run
Pour Some Sugarloaf On Me
Never Trust A Crocodile
Lyttelton Semi-Circle
Hagley Perimeter
Holliss Stairway to Heaven
Diamond, Herbert & Fitzgerald
Barnett Bunker Buster
The Pipeline of Pain
Mt Vernon Farm Track
Vicki Vale
Heathcote River Run - Opawa to Hoon Hay
Christchurch 360 Trail - Sugarloaf Hills Section
Little Learner Loop (Halswell Quarry)
Bird to Bird
Port Hills Protocol
Bodybag
O'Farrells For Shore
The Governator
Heathcote Meander
Spitting Distance
Montgomery Loop
Canterbury Agricultural Park Loop
2 Sugars, 2 Vernons & a Half Shot
Quail Island Looping
The Chairlift Choice
Tussock Hill Ridge
Mt Pleasant Elevator
McLeans Meander
Girdle the Groynes
Governator 2 - Judgement Day
Christchurch 360 Trail - Godley Cliffs Section
Westmorland Wetland Time Trial
Loopy in Siberia
The North Faces
Westmorland Hill Reps
360 Trail - Dunes Wetlands Section
Rocking Gibraltar
Dune Bugging
Hey Sisters!
Living Springs Loop
Springing Around Longhurst
Lady Isaac Loop
The Missing Link
Beer Bum Bluffs
Brooklands for the Birds.
Surf's Up!!!
Styx Pick Me Up
Orton Odyssey
Shoeing the Horse
Tauhinu-Korokio TKO
Double Top
Beginner's Adventure Park Loop
Boulder Dash
Clan of the Cave Runner
Taiora Track
Landfill Lark
Morgans Baa Baa Loop
Mary Had a Little Lamb
Horsing Around
Port Hills 8-Attack
Pinecone Pirate - Waitākiri/Bottle Lake Forest Park
Takahe to Taylors
Tai Tapu - Sacred Boundary
Blackhill Hut Buster
