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I found 142 results near coordinates (-43.49291, 171.15680).
Mt Somers Track (South Face)
Track.
1 day. Easy/medium. Return by the same track.
Updated
27 May 201327 May 2013.
Distance from location:
19km.
Woolshed Creek Hut - Rhyolite Ridge Track junction (4 km) Time: 2 hr. The route takes in dynamic scenery with regenerating mountain beech forest within a vaulted landscape of waterfalls, deep, icy pools and forbidding rocky tors. From the hut ...
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Manuka Range/Stour R. Circuit
Track.
2 – 3 days. Easy/medium. Loop track with a road section.
Updated
28 April 201128 April 2011.
Distance from location:
19km.
2 day circuit extended to 3 days by going into Woolshed Creek via Burma Rd then traversing Manuka Range
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Mount Potts Station campsite
Campsite.
Standard Campsite (Private).
Created
9 September 20149 September 2014.
Distance from location:
20km.
Powered and tent sites located on Mount Potts Station. The lodge also offers other accommodation, and a café/restaurant and bar.
Nearby walks include Mount Sunday, Mount Potts, and Mystery Lake.
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Boulder Col from Washbourne Ck to Jagged Stream
Nine hour circuit with good view of Reishek Glacier.
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Te Kiekie route - Mt Somers
Track.
Medium/hard. Loop track.
Updated
6 May 20226 May 2022.
Distance from location:
21km.
New marked route linking the summit of Mt Somers with the Mt Somers track.
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Whitcombe Pass
Track.
5 – 7 days. Medium/hard. One way.
Updated
3 June 20133 June 2013.
Distance from location:
21km.
This route follows the famous journey by John Henry Whitcombe and the Swiss guide Jakob Lauper across the Main Divide in 1863. Whitcombe and Lauper were not the first across the pass: it was already well used by Maori. Following ...
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4 Day Comyns, Cookies Huts circuit
Easter trip in 2018, involving a descent of the Nth Ashburton to Cookies Point and the hut and then north along the Turton Tops back to A-Frame Hut.
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Mount Sunday, Rangitata River
Track.
Easy. Return by the same track.
Updated
12 November 201412 November 2014.
Distance from location:
22km.
Short walk to a roche moutonnée, a rocky outcrop in the Rangitata River channel. The hill was used as the location for Edoras in recent Lord of the Rings films.
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Mount Somers Summit Track
Track.
1 day. Easy/medium. Return by the same track.
Created
27 May 201327 May 2013.
Distance from location:
23km.
The quicker, steeper route to the summit, from Sharplin Falls.
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Mt Somers
This high foothill,1688m,gives great panoramas of the Canterbury Plains and views of Mts Cook,Winterslow,Hutt,Taylor,D`Archiac,Peel,Tripp,and more.About seven hours return.This view taken near Staveley.View the sea on a clear day and see the clear form of a spent volcanic dome-Banks Peninsula.
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Mount Somers summit (from Woolshed Creek)
Track.
2 days. Easy/medium. Return by the same track.
Updated
27 May 201327 May 2013.
Distance from location:
23km.
A gentle climb over untracked tussock land to this easy summit.
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Cookies Hut
Hut.
Standard Hut (DOC). Capacity: 6.
Updated
22 March 201622 March 2016.
Distance from location:
23km.
Former musterers' hut oft used by hunters. Now owned and newly renovated by DoC as of Feb 2016.
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Picton to Aspiring
An aborted alpine traverse. Picton to West Cape, but aborted at Aspiring due to real world emergencies back home. Posted despite incomplete nature following requests ...
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Crossing the Clyde and Havelock - brushes with the Canterbury Death
High rivers ... lessons learnt.
Day 11 of the Otira to Mt Cook leg of my Southern Traverse
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Route Guide: Otira to Mt Cook Village (pt 1)
Track.
12 – 21 days. Hard. One way.
Updated
16 May 201116 May 2011.
Distance from location:
23km.
One possible route down the main divide from Otira on the Arthur's Pass road to Mt Cook Village.
Otira Hotel to the Mountaineer's Bar - file this one under 'tramps starting and ending at a pub'.
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Route Guide: Otira to Mt Cook Village (pt 2)
Track.
12 – 21 days. Hard. One way.
Updated
11 February 201111 February 2011.
Distance from location:
23km.
One possible route down the main divide from Otira on the Arthur's Pass road to Mt Cook Village.
Otira Hotel to the Mountaineer's Bar - file this one under 'tramps starting and ending at a pub'.
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Lawrence Hut
Hut.
Standard Hut (DOC). Capacity: 6.
Updated
21 June 200721 June 2007.
Distance from location:
23km.
Lawrence Hut (6 bunks, matresses, stove, tank water) is a pleasent forestry-style hut on river terraces in the lower reaches of the Lawrence River. It is NOT in the location shown on topomap J35 (1999). The hut is above the ...
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Labour Weekend Traverse of Black Hill Range
3 day weekend traverse of retired pastoral lease in the upper Rakaia on the former Black Hill and Redcliffe runs. This involves a crossing with a total height gain of 1500m between 2 headwaters of the North Ashburton river and ...
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Staveley Hill
Track.
Easy. Return via same track.
Updated
28 May 201128 May 2011.
Distance from location:
24km.
Part of the Mt Somers circuit, Staveley Hill climbs from Sharplin Falls carpark and past Hookey Knob along the south face. A great place to stop for lunch or, if you decide not to go to the summit, you still ...
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The Havelock
The Havelock River is one of the six great Canterbury rivers. As shown in Mathew's photo above, the peaks rise 2000m above the river and its a long walk, from the road end at Erewhon Station to the glaciers on ...
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Lawrence Valley Flats
Grassy flats on the Lawrence Valley. The valley floor is grazed by cattle as far up as Hermitage Hut. The 4WD track comes and goes, but is reasonably consistent from Erewhon Downs station to DOC's Lawrence Hut and the private ...
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Erewhon Station - Garden Of Eden - Perth River - Whataroa
Track.
5 – 7 days. Hard. One way.
Updated
7 May 20127 May 2012.
Distance from location:
25km.
Erewhon Station, McCoy Hut, Wee MacGregor Glacier, Garden Of Eden, Adverse Creek, Perth River, Whataroa
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Sharplin falls
Track.
Easy/medium.
Updated
26 November 200526 November 2005.
Distance from location:
25km.
Walk along a stream to the Sharplin Falls.
Different walks are possible.
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Redcliffe Stream
Track.
1 – 2 days. Easy/medium. Return by the same track.
Created
28 May 201328 May 2013.
Distance from location:
25km.
Short walk to an old musterers' hut near the Hutt Range.
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Tribulation Hut
Hut.
Basic Hut/Bivvy (DOC). Capacity: 6.
Created
23 May 201023 May 2010.
Distance from location:
25km.
very basic 6 bunker on true left of the Swift River(Nth Ashburton River catchment).Just taken over by DOC through tenure review & has had a make-over.Now has concrete floor,is pretty vermin-proof, but now has no fireplace.Gives access to Mt Hecla,the ...
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Whitcombe Pass & Butler Saddle
route guide attached by for Hokitika Gorge to Erewhon via Whitcombe Pass & Butler Saddle. The guide was written by my tramping buddy following our tramp in February 2009
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Lawrence Bivouac
Hut.
Basic Hut/Bivvy (DOC). Capacity: 2.
Updated
21 June 200721 June 2007.
Distance from location:
25km.
Lawrence Bivouac (sleeps 2 on floor, matresses, stream water) is a small but weatherproof bivouac in the upper Lawrence Valley. It sits on river flats to the north of the river, 1km east of the waterfalls at Hells Gates. Water ...
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Upper Lawrence Valley
The upper Lawrence Valley and the Lawrence Glacier, from Lawrence Biv.
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