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route from Snowy Creek to Lochnagar via Snowy Saddle
Hand-drawn route using Freshmap software. We didn't need the GPS!
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Standing above Lochnagar (Goat Lake) - Mt.Aspiring NP
No snow in March 2010 on the south facing slopes to the north of Lochnagar. Taken from the col between Pk.1865 and Pk.1896 This lake at appx 1200m alt. was formed by a huge rock slip and is over 100m ...
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Overnight beside Snowy Ck. - Mt.Aspiring NP NZ
Looking upstream on Snowy Ck. after crossing Rees saddle. Around the corner is a broad spur giving access to a pass at 1950m. Enroute to Lochnagar (Goat Lake)the Pine Ck basin on the other side can be sidled to another ...
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The spur between Snowy Ck and Pine Ck basin - Lochnagar route
The book at Tummel Burn hut in the upper Shotover would have you believe nine out of ten people descend this spur as part of the route via Lochnagar (Goat Lake) to Snowy Ck and onto the Rees or Dart ...
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A meeting with the water.
Providing a different perspective to show the scale of things. Still a couple of hundred metres above the lake. Lochnagar hut is just above and to the left of me in the picture.
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The upper basin of Pine Creek. Mt.Aspiring NP NZ
After crossing over the pass from Snowy Ck, it was thought we'd get a break from the wind. Fortunately we were out of it by the time we reached the snowgrass slopes below Pt's 1865 & 1896. Lochnagar route. March ...
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Lochnagar Hut
A hut was built here at Lochnagar in 1982. It was burnt down in 1988. As part of the 150th NZ anniversary project it was rebuilt in 1990.
Permission for use should be sought from the landholder.(Shotover valley).
Lochnagar, otherwise known as ...
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