Sunday 24th January - 15.8 km - 5.3 hours
Started the day expecting rain and long sections of slow muddy tracks, but in the event there was no rain, and only around 2 hours of slower track - the rest were of a superb grade. From Cosseys Dam Road down across the stream, then up to check out the Hunua Falls, before heading up and up the Massey Track onto the bush clad hill tops. A splendid grove of kauri trees and then on along a long ridge above the Wairoa reservoir - with the occasional glimpse of it.
Then down onto and across the Wairoa Dam, with my best view so far of the reservoir, and then up and up again to a fine lookout where this picture was taken from. Soon reaching a high point it was all downhill from there on shingle roads to Moumoukai, near the base of the Upper Mangatawhiri Dam
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