Now that the weather is better, Sharnay Cocup is getting back up her mountain; with spade and gumboots and a bunch of kids from the youth group she started when she was just 18. “We go up Taupiri Mountain two times a week to keep the gorse down,” she says. About three years ago she

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A few weeks back Number 8 Network climbed Taupiri Mountain but sadly cloud obscured any views. Gordonton’s local historian Alan Sharp captured some good images from Taupiri Mountain back in 2007 and sent some in:   “For me what was extremely interesting, was comparing the views I was seeing with those of Alfred Sharpe 131

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