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One of my favourite summer routes to climb Taranaki is East Ridge starting from the Stratford Plateau. I like this route becauseIt's quiet - not many people climb this side.Half the climb is on old lava flows, steep but great climbing with no loose scoria to climb through.You come out on the top of Sharks Tooth which provides great views to the east and of the summit and crater.The only downside is that the steep rock lava flows make it a hard descent so the normal way down when climbing east ri …