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MAGIC CARPET RIDE

ON A FINE DAY with little or no wind, the Skyline Walkway and Red Rocks Track would have to be one of the best ridge-top point-to-point rides in New Zealand. The track remains a long-time favourite of both walkers and mountain bikers.

The tracks combine to join the dots from Johnsonville’s Old Coach Road, undulating over Kaukau Peak, Makara Peak, Wrights Hill and Hawkins Hill before zooming down to Sinclair Head and the Red Rocks at the southern tip of the Wellington coast.

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