Connecting the Tongariro Northern Circuit with Ruapheu Round The Mountain the V3 route takes the runner on an epic adventure through the Tonogariro National Park. Featuring some runnable flowy tracks of the Northern Circuit, but equally highly technical ascents and descents throughout the Rangipo desert and the lahar valleys of the Western slopes of Tongariro. The route can be run in either direction and consideration should be taken for snow, ice and adverse weather.Starting and ending in Whakapapa Village (although as a loop could equally be started from the Ohakune Mountain Road.