A love note to Mount Karioi
Raglan
On the road out to Whāingaroa/Raglan, the striking silhouette of bush-clad Mount Karioi is a welcome respite from the Waikato’s wide expanses of flat dairy farmland.
The mountain’s profile resembles a woman in repose, and local iwi tell that Karioi and neighbouring Pirongia are sisters. As the story goes, Karioi had a lover called Karewa, but in a classic love-triangle twist, he fell for her sister. When Karioi found out, she pushed Pirongia
