This photo was taken from the knob just SE of Mt Smart and looks eastward through part of the Hohonu Range to Mt Alexander.

There is access to the tops about 600m west of Mt Smart from an overgrowing forestry road. This route/track is only lightly cut & unmarked for the first 200m through sparse gorse and young Douglas Fir plantings but is well cut & marked with tape once inside the native bush. Your leave the forestry road at E1460399, N5273353. An old track that hasn't been maintained for a long time hits the above mentioned track on the SW side of point 713m. It comes from Deep Creek at Taramakau Settlement. I managed to follow it along the dividing ridge between the Taramakau and Greenstone catchments ok. It is blazed & has old reddy coloured plastic bait stations on it many of which have popped off their nails due to tree growth.

There are lovely views from the Hohonu tops. I'll head back up there for another look this summer. Will camp up there & do some exploring.