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From the Wairarapa Times Age.
The track also passes through exotic and native forest and over farm land - with Tinui Forest Park and farmers Mike and Lesley Hodgins allowing use of their land to make up the three-hour walk.
"Beforehand, the public could only go up to the top of the hill once a year, on Anzac Day," said Mr Emerson. "Now, we've got a track we can use up to six months of the year. People have been very generous."
Mr Emerson said "upwards of 50" members of the Tinui community helped fashion the track - including bulldozing, landscape gardening, building huts, putting in steps and gates and felling trees.
"It's a 3km-long track, so it was one hell of a job," said Mr Emerson.
"But, our community got stuck in, and did a great job without any fuss."
In addition, Wairarapa businesses donated "thousands of dollars" of resources to the project.
Tomlinson and Carruthers did the surveying and mapping of the track, C&M loaned a bulldozer, Goldpine, Mitre 10 Mega, Tower Gates and Turton Farm Supplies donated timber and hardware, and the Walkways Commission did the signage, all at no cost.
"We're a small community - we've got the enthusiasm but not the resources," said Mr Emerson.
Tomlinson and Carruthers did the surveying and mapping of the track, C&M loaned a bulldozer, Goldpine, Mitre 10 Mega, Tower Gates and Turton Farm Supplies donated timber and hardware, and the Walkways Commission did the signage, all at no cost.