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"Both the track to Ikurangi and Te Manga start from the road going south-west from Tupapa Heights, near Tupapa Stream. Vehicle access stops by a low bridge/ford at which there is an intentions box on a post. From there, a rough road (which was being cleared when I visited) continues for some distance. Along the way, on the right is a 4x4 post with a yellow blaze and "Ikurangi Walk" engraved on one side of the post. The post is shown as "Ikurangi Hike Post" on the MotionX-GPS map.
Track goes down the bank and across the stream. You go along the stream for a short distance, up the bank then the track goes straight up the ridge through high bracken for a long and tough way. Eventually, you get through the dense bracken at a small tree and on to a saddle with low-level backen from where the track presumably goes straight up. I stopped at the saddle because of time deadlines and exhaustion!" — rogerxnz • May 11, 2015