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A tree windfall on Waingongoro Track, Taranaki Maunga.
Photo: Tamsen Walker / DOC
The upper Ihaia Track to the Waiaua Gorge Hut is shut due to a large washout and the hut is inaccessible from the western side of the mountain.
Taranaki district ranger supervisor Andy Johnston said that caused the Around the Mountain Circuit to be closed until the Ihaia Track could be re-routed.
In this case in particular, it s just cut quite deep down into the stream channel creating steep banks on either side, so where the track line was it s now quite a steep drop down to the bottom of the stream bed. ....

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