Tahiti Mt Aorai summit
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 11.59 mi
- Elevation gain
- 4,692 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Difficult
- Elevation loss
- 4,692 ft
- Max elevation
- 6,703 ft
- TrailRank
-
42
5
- Min elevation
- 1,923 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Time
- 10 hours 23 minutes
- Coordinates
- 1708
- Uploaded
- June 2, 2017
- Recorded
- June 2017
near Papeete, Îles du Vent (French Polynesia)
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Itinerary description
Start from restaurant O'Belvedere (taxi 3.5k xpf from downtown). Difficult hike due to: temperature, sun, annoying fernlike bushes. Up to ca. 1000m elevation, trail is cleared and mown. After that, you have to push yourself through dense vegetation. Trail is always visible, almost no chance of getting lost ( once you hit the creek after 1st refuge, take it upstream and then left). Rim is always at least 1m wide, it is not as bad as you may have read elsewhere (I'm scared of heights). There are few lightly technical passages, always secured with a rope. Take at least 4 liters water per person (we had 3,5 and ran out). It can be done in one day, however this will test your willpower. It is best to start before sunrise so that you reach summit before clouds obscure the view.
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Mountain hut
4,424 ft
Intersection
Panorama
Summit
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Bring warm attire for 7C Fare ATA. Summit at sunrise before the clouds obscure views. Geocache near summit.