East Cape to Cape Egmont Traverse

This East Cape to Cape Egmont Traverse is not so much a trail, more a Kiwi pilgrimage to our early pioneers and landscape.

Two authors/walkers have completed this traverse and written books:

• Salisbury, Raymond (April 1997) [1995]. "The Great Escape" (in en). Cape to Cape - 80 Day Traverse of the North Island. Word for Word Publishing. http://www.salis.co.nz/lighthouse/LighthousePubImages/capechapter1.pdf. Retrieved March 2007. "A red station-wagon full of elderly folk pulled up alongside me. Seeing I was obviously going tramping, a lady asked me 'Where was I going?' I replied 'for a walk down the road,'..." 
• A H REED – From East Cape to Cape Egmont On Foot at Eighty-six. 1st Edition 1962.

Undoubtedly at age 86 A.H. Reed didn't take the difficult Raukumara Range Forest Park route. A great Kiwi feat non-the-less.

External links

• Biography Alfred Hamish Reed MBE