Saturday, September 6, 2014

Malaoui roi (chapeau du gendarme) hike

Distance: 7.5 km.  Elevation low/high/total: 468/800/500+ m.
Difficulty: 7.8/10.  Scenic: 9.2/10

Malaoui roi peak, the reward for a long hike (click pic to see album)
Click here for the geotrack of the hike
For this outing, two of our new friends here in New Caledonia came along with us: Alex Tidd and his partner Sara Wilson.  Alex started at SPC about three weeks after me so we'd both been less than six months in country.  This turned out to be a challenging hike for this party - round trip was something like 9 km and the elevation gain was around 380 m (1200 feet).  Total hiking time - 3.5 hours plus a fantastic hour at the peak.  The best part was the final 0.5 km which is along the spine of Mount Koghi to the peak.  The parenthetical name "chapeau du gendarme" means "policeman's hat".

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