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This aerial image of Wainuiomata in 1974 is similar to the layout today. But the hills are crisscrossed with what looks like freshly cut or well kept firebreaks. As a child I walked on many of these firebreaks. I can remember when the one behind Sunny Grove was made or restored and I walked up the hills to the east of Sunny Grove and then along the ridge at the top. Another time I navigated up the top of the hill and then straight down at the end of the ridge to what is now Gums Loop Track.
