点评:Tongariro Alpine Crossing BACK UP HIKE!!!!! We had plans for the Alpine Crossing hike- but a massive storm rolled thru the entire week we stayed in the area & the hikes for the alpine crossing were cancelled for multiple days.
Heartbroken (😭😭😭) that we couldn’t do the very excited for hike- we chose to do Taranaki Falls AND Waitonga Falls as our back up game plan for the day! This hike is very beautiful & can be safely done during a rainy day (unlike the alpine crossing) so we enjoyed pairing these 2 hikes in one day.
I honestly LOVED this hike! The waterfall itself was hard to see based on location unless you wanted to climb down into the stream & battle upstream to get closer - HOWEVER- the hike LEADING TO the waterfall was stunning! A really decent heart pumping hike starts you going uphill for awhile. Then when your legs are really feeling it- you are whisked away to a flat marsh with really amazing boardwalk to keep going on. Mountains surround you as you follow the boardwalk. It was so surreal. So beautiful!
After the boardwalk, you are back in the bush. And lots of steps going down and down and down until you end at the falls. What goes down must come back up - so the steps you took all the way down, becomes a hike back up! Bring hiking poles to help on the way back! Also this area gets VERY muddy in the rain FYI!
So many people come to Tongariro National Park JUST for the alpine crossing but forget the park has so many other beautiful hikes worthy of exploring. The weather was a damper on our alpine hike plans but we felt blessed to experience this trail as we would have missed it if the weather allowed for the alpine.
翻译:汤加里罗高山穿越步道备选方案!!!我们原本计划徒步穿越高山步道,但一场暴风雨席卷了我们停留的整整一周,导致高山穿越步道的徒步活动连续多日取消。
我们非常失望(😭😭😭),无法进行期待已久的徒步之旅。于是,我们选择了塔拉纳基瀑布和怀通加瀑布作为当天的备选方案!这条步道风景优美,而且在雨天也可以安全进行(不像高山穿越步道那样),所以我们很享受将这两条步道安排在同一天的行程中。
我真的非常喜欢这条步道!瀑布本身的位置比较隐蔽,除非你愿意爬到溪流里逆流而上才能看到——但是——通往瀑布的步道本身却美得令人窒息!一开始就是一段相当刺激的上坡路,需要你付出相当多的心跳。当你的双腿感到疲惫不堪时,你会被带到一片平坦的沼泽地,那里有一条令人惊叹的木栈道,可以继续前行。沿着栈道,群山环绕,美得令人窒息!
走完栈道后,你又回到了灌木丛中。接下来是一段漫长的下坡路,一直向下,直到瀑布尽头。俗话说,下坡路总要上坡——所以你一路走下来的台阶,最终都会变成上坡路!记得带上登山杖,以便返回时行走!另外,友情提示:这片区域下雨天会非常泥泞!
很多人来汤加里罗国家公园只是为了体验高山穿越,却忽略了公园里还有许多其他值得探索的美丽徒步路线。天气影响了我们的高山徒步计划,但我们很幸运能够体验到这条路线,因为如果天气允许的话,我们可能就错过了。