Remutaka Summit to Bucks Road. 3rd May 2026.
On the 3rd of May a party of six consisting of Gail, Bruce, Michelle,Phil, John and Josh met at Featherston for a day trip along the Remutaka Range.
After swapping cars two at Bucks Road and the other Two left at the Remutaka Pass , we started our hike at 8 20am.
The weather was fine with very little breeze gradually climbing up the exposed Ridge with views over Kaitoke.
We dropped back into the bush for around half an hour before climbing up to one of the pylons which meets up with a four wheel drive track.
From here we headed off up four wheel track before passing the turn off to the puffer track and the old pylon Hutt site, eventually reaching the turnoff to Mount Frith around 11am.
We had a fairly good run along the Ridge with great views over the Marchant Ridge and the Southern Crossing.The track is fairly well marked with a number of poles also along the track.
We had lunch at Mount Frith,and then followed by a steep drop off the side followed by a climb back onto Finis.
We left the track here to check out the trig which was well and truly hidden in the bush, about 10 minutes each way.
To get to the trig we had to bush bash our way thru gorse and scrub, which was up to 2 metres high, but we had great views over South Wairarapa, rather sore and raw legs after that though!!
We continued on pass Finis thru more gorse , scrub and long grass, passing a number of fence lines that disappeared into the bush before eventually making our way down to Bucks Road at 4.15pm.
Total time was just under 8 hours, from A to B, suggested time on the sign posts was 5.40 , would have to run it at that rate !
