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Trig M
Lake Lyndon from Trig M
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Distance: less than 100m away
Beyond is Mount Lyndon and the Craigieburn Range.
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Red Hill from Trig M
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Distance: less than 100m away
Red Hill (1641m) is the highest peak to the right. The Lyndon Road winds past Lake Lyndon to Lake Coleridge ...
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Foggy Peak
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Distance: 781m away
The climb up Foggy Peak follows Foggy Peak Ridge from the Porter's Pass road summit (visible lower right) to a ...
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Red Hill (1641m)
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Distance: 943m away
This hill just east of Lake Coleridge is a good day walk. Viewed from near Trig M, Porter's Pass.
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Black Hill (2067m)
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Distance: 943m away
Just south of Lake Coleridge. Viewed from Trig M near Porter's Pass.
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Castle Hill Peak
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Distance: 1.2km away
Straightforward alpine walk with great views.
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Mt Lyndon
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0 – 1 day. Easy/medium. Return by the same track.
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Distance: 1.7km away
Day trip of moderate ascent of 650 m hill overlooking Lake Lyndon near Porters Pass. Route goes via low open ...
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The Big Ben Range from Foggy Pk
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Distance: 2.5km away
Looking across Porters Pass in the Canterbury high country.
Kowai Forest is a very accessible point from which to explore the ...
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Foggy Peak
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Easy/medium. Return via same track.
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Distance: 2.5km away
A short walk from Porter's Pass to a peak with good views at the southern end of the Torlesse Range.
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Korowai/Torlesse Tussocklands Park
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Conservation Park. 210.00km2.
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Distance: 2.8km away
This park incorporates the Torlesse and Big Ben Ranges either side of Porter's Pass. The Torlesse Gap is a prominent ...
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Red Hill
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1 day. Medium. Loop track.
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Distance: 3.4km away
A largely untracked route up Red Hill (1,641m), with magnificent views of Lake Coleridge, and the surrounding foothills. This loop ...
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Geranium sessilifolium
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Distance: 4.2km away
Shingle river flats below Red Hill.
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Mt Plenty, Ghost Creek Circuit
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Distance: 4.3km away
A day trip involving a 700 m climb then descending a creek with 2 challenging sidles past waterfalls.
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Lobelia roughii
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Distance: 4.9km away
This tiny plant was widespread on Red Hill scree slopes
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Coprosma atropurpurea
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Distance: 5.4km away
This Coprosma is very different from the native tree Coprosmas, but bears strikingly pretty, glassy berries. High in an alpine ...
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Kowai/Castle Hill Peak/Porters Pass Circuit
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Distance: 5.5km away
Circuit of the above. Can be done as a day trip or in our case, 2 days broken by a ...
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Patterned ground
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Distance: 5.5km away
Frost heave causes striping as the stones are sorted into smaller and larger. Ridge east of Red Hill.
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Gentiana montana
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Distance: 5.6km away
A particularly showy specimen, growing in a herbfield on Red Hill.
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Pentachondra pumila
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Distance: 5.8km away
These mats covered much of the ground on a low ridge near Red Hill.
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Scree buttercup (Ranunculus crithmifolius)
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Distance: 5.9km away
Located on scree just east of Red Hill.
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Epilobium pycnostachyum
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Distance: 5.9km away
Quite variable in colour from red to green, and scattered widely on scree at the saddle east of Red Hill.
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Pratia macrodon
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Distance: 5.9km away
This creeper was found growing around rocks and at the edges of stony areas on Red Hill.
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Red Hill
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Distance: 6.4km away
View towards Lake Coleridge from the Summit of Red Hill.
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Leptinella atrata
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Distance: 6.4km away
A curious black flower on the summit of Red Hill.
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Torlesse Range Feb 2014
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Distance: 6.4km away
This photo is taken from slightly uphill of & beside the John Hayward Memorial Hut (Kowai Hut) in the Kowai ...
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John Hayward Memorial Hut Feb 2014
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Distance: 6.4km away
Also known as Kowai hut but not to be confused with Kowhai hut in the Kaikoura area near Mt Fyffe. ...
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John Hayward Memorial Hut
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Private hut (NA). Capacity: 6.
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Distance: 6.4km away
Also known as Kowai hut but not to be confused with Kowhai hut in the Kaikoura area near Mt Fyffe. ...
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Thirteen Mile Bush
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Distance: 7.3km away
Beech forest on the walk into Benmore Hut.
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Benmore Hut
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Basic Hut/Bivvy (DOC). Capacity: 3.
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Distance: 7.5km away
3 person little hut installed by Malvern Deerstalkers in 1975.
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Benmore
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Distance: 7.5km away
A seldom used track to a cosy hut in the Benmore range
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Annavale Circuit from Benmore Hut
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Distance: 7.6km away
A new track enabling a circuit as a day trip or an easy weekend trip. Plenty of tracks to explore ...
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Benmore Hut
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Distance: 7.6km away
Short walk to a deerstalkers' hut in Thirteen Mile Bush.
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Dry Acheron Track
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1 day. Easy/medium. Return by the same track.
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Distance: 7.9km away
Follow the Dry Acheron Stream to the summit of Big Ben (1416m).
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Striking limestone formations of Castle Hill
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Distance: 8.0km away
Known as Kura Tawhiti to Ngāi Tahu, this is an area of historic significance, with rock drawings hidden amongst the ...
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DOC sign
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Distance: 8.3km away
Kura Tawhiti Conservation Area is the karst landscape also known as Castle Hill, located on the road between Porter's and ...
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Mt Torlesse
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1 day. Easy/medium. Return by the same track.
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Distance: 8.9km away
Noteworthy peak east of Porters Pass.
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