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2019: In review

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Hut

Hut

matthew visited 3 huts.

Track

Track

matthew walked 55.8km on 10 tracks.

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matthew walked Big River Dam 8 June 20198 June 2019 • 4.7km		Beautiful walk at 7am on a clear winter's day. Heavy frost on the flats.
matthew visited Big River Hut 8 June 20198 June 2019		Stayed with a group of 4WDers who worried about ghosts and offered me beer. Luckily there's a private three-person room down the end.
matthew walked Big River Track 8 June 20198 June 2019 • 30.7km		Very nice walk in the rain on the way in and dry coming out. Visited the poppet head and the dam site. Lots of toadstools. This would be a great first tramp.
matthew walked Lake Hanlon Walk 25 January 201925 January 2019 • 1.6km		Close up view of storm damage from 2014's Cyclone Ita.
matthew walked Moria Gate Arch 24 January 201924 January 2019 • 4km		Good family walk with an arch to explore. A film crew were also there when we visited (apparently making a documentary about dinosaurs).
matthew walked Box Canyon and Crazy Paving Caves 22 January 201922 January 2019 • 0.4km		Box Canyon Cave was a lot of fun. Check out the meandering side passages and watch your head (my two-year old learned a valuable lesson about cave ceilings).
matthew walked Ōpārara Arch 22 January 201922 January 2019 • 1.6km		Amazing arch, but you never quite get the view you want.
matthew walked Te Ana o Matuku Cave 20 January 201920 January 2019 • 0.8km		Quite long side tunnel near the entrance.
matthew walked Truman Track 20 January 201920 January 2019 • 1.4km
matthew walked Dolomite Point Walk 20 January 201920 January 2019 • 0.6km		Kids loved it. Big swells driving blowholes.
matthew walked Godley Head Walkway 6 January 20196 January 2019 • 10km
matthew visited Fowlers Hut 1 January 20191 January 2019		Extensive graffiti inside, apparently by one party.
matthew visited Lake Guyon Hut 1 January 20191 January 2019		Passed by on the way from Pool Hut and over Fowler Pass -- long day on foot. Gooseberries and wild strawberries around the hut.

matthew's photographs

Peters Valley Track

Peters Valley Track • Near Tophouse Road behind Hanmer Springs.

Faerie Queene (2236m)

Faerie Queene (2236m) • Looking across the Ada Flats from the McArthur Track. Wild St James horses in the foreground. The St James Walkway curls upvalley and to the left over Ada Pass.

Lake Guyon

Lake Guyon • Mount Una (2300m) in behind. The hut is located on the distant grass flat.

ABC Cave

ABC Cave • A snug cave with a sleeping platform in Dunedin's Silver Peaks Range.

Sugarloaf from Faulkner's Track

Sugarloaf from Faulkner's Track • Christchurch Port Hills.

Foliage on the Bivvy Track

Foliage on the Bivvy Track • A damp, verdant track in the Christchurch Port Hills.

Subalpine herbs

Subalpine herbs • Fowler Pass Track

Mirror Tarn

Mirror Tarn • Small tarn on a short walk in Ōpārara Basin.

Moria Gate Arch

Moria Gate Arch • Limestone arch on the Ōpārara River.

Descending into Moria Gate Arch

Descending into Moria Gate Arch • Limestone arch on the Ōpārara River.

Exploring Moria Gate Arch

Exploring Moria Gate Arch • Limestone arch on the Ōpārara River.

Moria Gate Arch

Moria Gate Arch • A film crew works at the limestone arch over the Ōpārara River.

Lake Guyon

Lake Guyon • Mount Una (2300m) in behind. The hut is located on the distant grass flat.

Jones Stream

Jones Stream • Jervois Hut is situated about 2.5km up the valley. Viewed across the Waiau Uwha River from the McArthur Track.

Waiau Uwha Valley

Waiau Uwha Valley • Approaching McArthur Bridge.

Big River

Big River • Sunrise on a frosty June morning at the dam site.

Big River Hut

Big River Hut • Frosty June morning.

Big River Winding Plant

Big River Winding Plant • The new engine house sits over the top of the original winding plant boiler.

Big River Winding Plant

Big River Winding Plant • This winding plant moved miners and gear up and down the 602m Big River shaft.

Big River Poppet Head

Big River Poppet Head • One of only two left in the country.

Pakihi near Big River Hut

Pakihi near Big River Hut • Looking eastward across the Inangahua River.

Forest

Forest • Big River Track, Victoria Forest Park.

Forest

Forest • Big River Track, Victoria Forest Park.

Pink mānuka

Pink mānuka • Fowler Pass Track.

Big River

Big River • Frosty June morning on the way to the old dam site.