A hidden gem in Wanaka | Breast Hill Track, New Zealand
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- Опубликовано: 13 янв 2023
- A strong contender for the best hike in the Wanaka region! The Breast Hill Track can be found on the shores of Lake Hawea in the Hawea Conservation Park, about 20-25 minutes from Wanaka. From the Dingle Burn Road to Pakituhi Hut the track climbs a vertical 950m, with the first kilometre of track zig-zagging for 400 vertical metres before reaching a small saddle. Pakituhi Hut sits at ~1300m elevation and is located roughly 4.2km from Dingle Burn Road. From Pakituhi Hut it is a further 2.5 km and ~320m to the Breast Hill Summit. This isn’t a walk for the faint hearted, however the views over Lake Hawea and the Southern Alps make this one quite magical!
If you don't want to hike the whole trail, you get fantastic views at multiple points along the track. Hike up as far as you are comfortable, enjoy the views and then head back down :)
Date Hiked: September 2022
Distance: ~15.3 km return
Duration: 7+ hours
More info on the trail:
- www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-rec...
- www.alltrails.com/trail/new-z...
- churnewzealand.com/breast-hil...
- backyardtravelfamily.com/brea...
Beautiful! A hidden gem indeed
Definitely worth it if you're ever in the area!
Incredible video, your shots here are stunning! Just got home from doing this hike with a paraglider on my back and flying back down, what a gem of a track!
That sounds amazing Michael! 🙌🙌
Would love to try paragliding one day
Beautiful video of a beautiful hike. I was confused about the snow until I saw you hiked this in September. We just spent 9 days in Wanaka in December, and I wish we could spend more time there. I discovered your channel when I got back home from New Zealand, and I love it! Keep up the good work!
We miss Wanaka so much 😭
After being there for about a year we left in November, spent 2 months going up the West Coast and now we're in Nelson for the next 5 months. As beautiful as those places have been, Wanaka just holds a special place in our heart!
Thanks for watching and thanks for the support! ❤️🙏
I remember I looked on a topo & thought it's easy after the 1st zigzags....
Water tank was empty, but lucky still some snow around the hut to melt.
It's a bit of a grueling one, but oh so beautiful! Crazy the water tank was empty, that's never happened to us before
17.oo Another great trip certainly beautiful photography, just about never picking up lambs if you do pick them up their mothers can abandon them because of the human smell, a back country kiwi..😊
Thank you for the clarification!
It was a strange sign to see 😅
We loved this one. Gorgeous footage and very well done 👍 💙💙
Thank you as always 🙏❤️. We were really surprised by this trail! We weren't even really planning on doing it, we just had a spare weekend and it was close by. Ended up being one of Danya's favourites
@@ChrisandDanya isn’t that the best?! Unprompted adventure 🪄
Just subscribed, I thought I knew most of us creatives in this space, so glad I found you, a beautiful composed video style 👏👏👏
Thanks Dave, that means a lot to us! 🙏❤
Wow wow
It's a beautiful track!
Tolles Video super Kanal liebe Grüße aus der Steiermark ViJo Video Johnny Bunte-Welt 😀
Thank you Johnny 🙏❤️
Thanks for sharing. Such beautiful place . Each video always bring some surprise ! Love NZ .
Thank you Edward. We were surprised by this track as well! 😊🙏
I've run out of descriptors, so going to have to just start over and add some thumbs-up for emphasis. Nicely done, again. Beautiful scenery, again. Thank you sharing. Oh yeah, two thumbs up to go with it.
Haha love it John, thank you! 😂🙏
Beautiful.
Thank you Tee 🙏😊
Great videography - love the views across to Wanaka tucked behind Mt Iron especially those you captured at dawn. BTW now that I've read that you've moved up north I thoroughly recommend the QCT by mtb if you get a chance.
We're walking the QCT with my mom in March; will try to convince Danya to MTB it another time. I'm still struggling to convince her to do the Old Ghost Road with me 😅
What an amazing place. Thanks for sharing, as always.
Thanks for watching as always Shinji 🙏😊
Wow beautiful
It's a good one! 😊
Thank you for the video, stunning view. Wanaka is one of my favorest places in south island, will add it to my to-do list when I visit it next time.
Wanaka is our favourite as well 😊. It's such a great hike, 100% recommend it!
Thanks for watching 🙏
You guys made such awesome video , fun to watch and informative at the same time🤗👍👍
Thank you Cindy 🙏❤️
Thank u for sharing, made my youtube experience to the nxtlevel., the way you capture the video made me fell inlove more with nature😍💚
Thanks for watching Ellaines! So glad you enjoyed it 😊🙏❤️
Hey guys, as always love the content. Was actually thinking it would be awesome to see you guys do a video on your top 5 NZ hikes and even ranking some of the more well known hikes to help out international travellers (like me) to choose their first few hikes!
Thanks MrMatena! Definitely agree with you on this type of video and it's definitely something we'd like to make. We'd prefer to wait till we have finished our hiking this summer/autumn around the Nelson/Tasman area, so we have a better gauge of what's available in the northern section of the South Island.
Happy to give you some recommendations of what we have done though! What areas are you planning on visiting?
@@ChrisandDanya thanks for the reply guys! I’m doing a March trip to the South Island for 7 days and I’m weighing up the Milford Trail which I want to do but it will take a lot of time (4 days) as opposed to doing a few smaller hikes such as The Routeburn and Earnslaw Burn.
Basically trying to work out how to allocate only 7 days to so many options of hikes!
I'd say for 7 days, maybe skip the Mildford Track because getting there and back takes quite a bit of time as well; you may even had a hard time getting space on the track because it books out so fast.
Routeburn is great too, but same thing, you may have a hard time getting a spot; although if you are solo, spots do appear pretty often. If you do decide to do the Routeburn, you can combine the first 2.5 days of the Routeburn and link it with 1.5 days on Greenstone or Caples track. This will make it 4 days, but it creates a loop back to your car or transport in Glenorchy
Earnslaw Burn is good, but it can be quite a difficult hike, but it's very beautiful especially in summer.
Mt Cook is always a great option, Wanaka has some great overnighters too
Awesome scenery 👏 what month was that with sooo much snow on the peaks?
Gazza, good to hear from you!
We hiked this in early September. We had a good winter, so still plenty of snow around then 😊
Wow!! How stunning ate those views?! Would love to see them but I know I couldn't do it as too steep.
This one is very steep, but the beginning is switch backs so makes it a bit easier. You could just hike as far up as you like and then turn around. You get great views very quickly
Oh wow, are you guys in heaven by any chance?
Sure seems like it from up there! 😊
So incredible! Dayna, don't you get cold in tights? Are those wool?
Thanks for watching Sarah! My tights are old school Lululemon. Not wool but thick enough to be warm in the alpine yet I also don't tend to overheat when on the hike up!
- Danya
Hi guys! congratulations for the chanel...good job! We are going to NZ in a month. COuld you tell us your best/prefered 10 day hikes there, no problem about the lenght, dificulty and so on. We are prepared! 🙂
Our favourite day hikes we've done on the South Island are below (in no particular order):
- Hooker Valley Track (Mt Cook)
- Sealy Tarns (Mt Cook)
- Rob Roy Glacier (Wanaka)
- Rocky Mountain Track (Wanaka)
- Isthmus Peak and/or Rob Roy (Wanaka)
- Breast Hill (Wanaka) (Don't need to go the whole way if it's too difficult)
- Moonlight Track/Ben Lomond (Queenstown)
- Earnslaw Burn, but I'd prefer to do this as an overnight (Glenorchy)
- Lake Matheson (Fox Glacier)
- Hokatika Gorge (Hokatika)
Bonus:
- Could do a day hike on the Kepler Track to Luxmore Hut (Te Anau)
- Could do a day hike on the Routeburn Track to Routeburn Flats Hut (Glenorchy)
- Could do a day hike on the Paparora Track (Greymouth)
@@ChrisandDanya you are the best guys! If you come to visit spain dont hesitate in asking us whatever you want!
We'll get there one day! 😊