Johanna and Geoff Fitzgerald want hikers to walk for a cause across their farm.
Six hundred hikers are being invited to walk for a cause across a Wharepūhunga sheep and beef farm.
Geoff and Johanna Fitzgerald, who have farmed the 450ha Duncan Road property for 24 years, have created the Maungahau: Walk for a Cause charity walk and hikers can choose from a 6.5 km or 10 km cross-country walk on their sheep and beef farm on Saturday (October 19).
Walkers will pay $80 to complete and, if registrations are full, the Fitzgeralds will raise $48,000 for two good causes. The walks will also include the neighbouring farm owned by the Kimton family.
Proceeds will be split between Waikato Westpac Rescue Helicopter and Waikato Hauraki Coromandel Rural Support Trust.
The Fitzgeralds have benefitted from both services over the years.
“We have capped it at 600 walkers because of our health and safety plan that we have got in place,” Geoff Fitzgerald, 74, said.
The short walk is expected to take two to two and half hours, the long walk three to three and half.
“We hope to do it annually, give people a really good experience, and be able to increase the numbers next time.”
