Mount Ruapehu
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Oct 27, 2026
Benny BoyCORRESPONDENT
How are you, mate? Bloody good.
Benny BoyCORRESPONDENT
Had a wicked weekend, eh? Got down to Ruapehu for the final closing days of the season.
Benny BoyCORRESPONDENT
27th
Duncan HydeHOST
of October and still snow on the
Justin Tighe-UmbersGUEST
Yeah.
Justin Tighe-UmbersGUEST
What's the detour? You're looking at up through State Highway 4 around from Wanganui or you're actually going to have to hook right around under Mount Ruapehu to get all the way around State Highway 1 and Waiouru.
Justin Tighe-UmbersGUEST
So she's pretty chunky.
Heather du Plessis-AllanHOST
Yeah.
IraGUEST
Yeah.
IraGUEST
Mount Ruapehu and met up with some friends.
IraGUEST
And she was like, Oh, like she kind of wrote off those friends.
IraGUEST
She never mentioned them because it hurts.
Mary-Anne StoneHOST
Isn't that beautiful? Your nature writing is wonderful.
Mary-Anne StoneHOST
Anyone who's spent time under Ruapehu, even driving through that desert road, will recognise it and kind of be freshly captivated by it.
Mary-Anne StoneHOST
It's a landscape that's more hospitable for the imagination and the soul than it is for humans.
Mary-Anne StoneHOST
What makes it suitable as a conservation estate for wild horses?
Duncan GarnerHOST
That's interesting
Mike KingGUEST
... school trip at the end of the year when they went to Ruapehu.
Duncan GarnerHOST
Yeah.
Mike KingGUEST
You know, I was in the sewing class with all the other broke kids, you know-
Kate RodgerHOST
Mm.
Graham LeonardGUEST
Uh, but there are fault lines, uh, uh, running with the volcanoes, so there's, there's fault lines all the way through the Volcanic Arc from Ruapehu to the Bay of Plenty, and there are, there are, uh, deeper and spread out faults over the whole country.
Graham LeonardGUEST
And so we will get big earthquakes in Dunedin and in Auckland in the future.
Graham LeonardGUEST
They're just less frequent, and the important thing is less frequent doesn't mean less strong.
KelseaGUEST
And Liv's real, um, spontaneous.
KelseaGUEST
Like, Liv will just, like, make a decision Friday morning that she's going down to Mount Ruapehu to summit the mountain.
KelseaGUEST
Um, and a lot of the time I just tag on with her-
Abigail HannahHOST
Mm
Jean KrielenGUEST
It's just, I don't know, just being out in nature where there's no noise.
Jean KrielenGUEST
So I've hiked the crater lake a few times on Mount Ruapehu, and it is silent up there.
Jean KrielenGUEST
And there's no words that can describe like the silence and the vastness of that mountain.
Jean KrielenGUEST
Like it's just like ...
Igor PortugalGUEST
I, I...
Igor PortugalGUEST
So because I'm on the North Island, it's easy to go to Mount Ruapehu, so I go to Whakapapa.
Igor PortugalGUEST
I'm actually part of a ski club, uh, on, uh, Whakapapa.
Igor PortugalGUEST
Uh, but I also go sometimes to Turoa.
7 MINS LATER
Akhil NavluriHOST
[laughs]
Igor PortugalGUEST
... its nature.
Igor PortugalGUEST
And so if you visit New Zealand, uh, Mount Ruapehu would be beautiful place.
Igor PortugalGUEST
Uh, South Island, there's plenty of places in South Island.
VaughanHOST
Tongariro, Ngarahoe, or actually I'm about to name four.
VaughanHOST
Ruapehu or Taranaki.
Hayley SproullHOST
Rank them.
VaughanHOST
Okay, first.
VaughanHOST
When you see it, you feel privileged.
VaughanHOST
The circular bush around it, beautiful.
Hayley SproullHOST
Is a Ruapehu in here?
VaughanHOST
Are we talking the desert
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