Nearby | Rees Saddle from near Cleft Peak

Rees Saddle

Photograph • Distance: less than 100m away

This picture was take at the top of the rees saddle looking down towards the rees vally in december 2006 More ▶︎

Rees-Dart Track

Track • 3 – 4 days. Medium/hard. Loop track. • Distance: less than 100m away

Alpine circuit along two river valleys at the head of Lake Wakatipu. More ▶︎

Matukituki to Paradise by roads less travelled

GPX file • Distance: 126m away

A rough, tough crossing from Raspberry Flat (Aspiring Road, Wanaka) to the Earnslaw Burn (Glenorchy-Paradise road) via Shotover Saddle, Lochnagar, ... More ▶︎

Haast to The Divide

GPX file • Distance: 143m away

Andrew Barker's traverse 2009. From Pleasant Flat in the Haast to The Divide via Mt Aspiring National Park. More ▶︎

rees valley

Track • 3 days. Medium. Return via same track. • Distance: 167m away

pleasant walk up the rees valley. the track gets a bit swampy at the start and then a few avalance ... More ▶︎

The sun is always brighter on the other side

Photograph • Distance: 729m away

That's the last we'll see of the sun tonight. The Rees valley continues to be flooded with rays. Rees Saddle from ... More ▶︎

Overnight beside Snowy Ck. - Mt.Aspiring NP NZ

Photograph • Distance: 744m away

Looking upstream on Snowy Ck. after crossing Rees saddle. Around the corner is a broad spur giving access to a ... More ▶︎

Rees Vally

Photograph • Distance: 3.2km away

A photo taken looking towards the rees saddle, taken inbetween rees saddle and shelter rock hut More ▶︎

Dart Hut

Hut • (DOC). • Distance: 3.4km away

Dart Track More ▶︎

Dart Hut

Photograph • Distance: 3.4km away

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Dart Hut

Photograph • Distance: 3.5km away

Dart hut, taken from the swing bridge crossing the Snowy stream, just as you approach the hut More ▶︎

The spur between Snowy Ck and Pine Ck basin - Lochnagar route

Photograph • Distance: 4.2km away

The book at Tummel Burn hut in the upper Shotover would have you believe nine out of ten people descend ... More ▶︎

Shelter Rock Hut

Photograph • Distance: 4.5km away

Shelter Rock Hut in its surrounding mountains More ▶︎

Shelter Rock Hut

Hut • Serviced Hut (DOC). Capacity: 22. • Distance: 4.5km away

In the Rees Valley. One of the huts on the Rees-Dart Track More ▶︎

Snowy Creek

Photograph • Distance: 4.9km away

Snowy Creek - viewed from saddle 1950 on the way over from Lochnagar Hut More ▶︎

Snowy Creek

Photograph • Distance: 4.9km away

Looking down Snowy Creek to Rees Saddle More ▶︎

The upper basin of Pine Creek. Mt.Aspiring NP NZ

Photograph • Distance: 5.1km away

After crossing over the pass from Snowy Ck, it was thought we'd get a break from the wind. Fortunately we ... More ▶︎

Pine Creek

Photograph • Distance: 5.2km away

Upper basin of Pine Creek, crossing to Snowy from Lochnagar More ▶︎

The mind of a mischief at work

Photograph • Distance: 5.5km away

Kea show their usual boundless curiosity in Pine Ck basin. More ▶︎

Have we met?

Photograph • Distance: 5.6km away

This may well be the same group that visit us on Shotover Saddle the night after next. The ones who ... More ▶︎

Dart/Lochnagar

Track • 1 – 2 days. Hard. One way. • Distance: 5.7km away

10 hour trip from Dart Hut to Lochnagar via Snowy Saddle More ▶︎

Standing above Lochnagar (Goat Lake) - Mt.Aspiring NP

Photograph • Distance: 6.2km away

No snow in March 2010 on the south facing slopes to the north of Lochnagar. Taken from the col between ... More ▶︎

Approaching Mt Tyndall

Photograph • Distance: 6.4km away

Mt Tyndall (2,496m) sits above the Isobel Glacier south of Cascade Saddle. More ▶︎

Mt Tyndall

Photograph • Distance: 6.5km away

from Cascade Saddle, looking south-east across Heads Leap to Mt Tyndall (2496m) (April 2009) More ▶︎

A meeting with the water.

Photograph • Distance: 6.5km away

Providing a different perspective to show the scale of things. Still a couple of hundred metres above the lake. Lochnagar ... More ▶︎

Descending to Lochnagar Hut

Photograph • Distance: 6.5km away

Standing above the lake to its north. Showing the outlet which becomes sub-terranian. This spur leads down from Pt.1865 which ... More ▶︎

Lochnagar Hut

Photograph • Distance: 6.6km away

Lochnagar Hut More ▶︎

Lochnagar Hut

Hut • Private hut (PVT). Capacity: 4.Bookings required. • Distance: 6.6km away

Old style musterers hut yet rebuilt in 1990. Painted corrugated iron half buried in earth with a partial schist slabbed ... More ▶︎

Lochnagar Hut

Photograph • Distance: 6.7km away

A hut was built here at Lochnagar in 1982. It was burnt down in 1988. As part of the 150th ... More ▶︎

Cascade Saddle Camp

Photograph • Distance: 8.4km away

Nice campsite where the Cascade Saddle track crosses the top of Cascade Creek, with Mt Aspiring visible over the ridge. ... More ▶︎

Route from Pine Creek to Matukituki Valley via Shotover Saddle

GPX file • Distance: 8.4km away

(Partial) route from Pine Creek to Matukituki via Shotover Saddle. The cattle track passage in this file is probably very ... More ▶︎

Lochnagar landslide dam

Photograph • Distance: 8.5km away

Lochnagar landslide dam, looking up Lake creek More ▶︎

Tummel Burn Hut

Hut • Basic Hut/Bivvy (PVT). Capacity: 3. • Distance: 8.6km away

Low 3 person unbunked private hut with open fire. 3 mattresses present (2009). Water supply from Tummel Burn 20m distant. ... More ▶︎

Upper Shotover

Photograph • Distance: 8.8km away

Shotover valley from the spur between Tummel Burn and Tyndall Creek. More ▶︎

Snowy Creek

Photograph • Distance: 8.8km away

Snowy Creek - viewed from saddle 1950 on the way over from Lochnagar Hut More ▶︎

Snowy Creek

Photograph • Distance: 8.8km away

Snowy Creek - viewed from saddle 1950 on the way over from Lochnagar Hut More ▶︎

Lower Matukituki

Photograph • Distance: 9.2km away

Taken from the Cascade Saddle route a short distance below the Pylon looking downvalley towards the carpark at Raspberry Flat. ... More ▶︎

Glengyle Peak

Photograph • Distance: 9.2km away

Taken from below the Pylon on the Cascade Saddle route looking across the West matukituki towards Glengyle. If you look ... More ▶︎

West Matukituki valley

Photograph • Distance: 9.2km away

Taken from the Cascade Saddle route not far below the Pylon, looking up valley towards Mt Aspiring which towers above ... More ▶︎

Cattle Flat Biv

Photograph • Distance: 9.4km away

Plenty of room for everyone to get out of the rain and enjoy a brew More ▶︎

Cattle Flat Bivy Rock

Hut • Natural shelter (NA). • Distance: 9.4km away

A huge shelter rock in the Dart half way between Dart & Daleys Huts. It is back in the bush ... More ▶︎

from Cascade Saddle

Photograph • Distance: 9.4km away

looking to the SE from Cascade Saddle, across Heads Leap to Cascade Falls More ▶︎

Dart Glacier

Photograph • Distance: 9.4km away

Descending from Cascade Saddle. March 2014 More ▶︎

Crossing Lake Creek out of Lochnagar

Photograph • Distance: 9.5km away

The descent from Lochnagar to the Shotover river goes past a sub-terranian outlet before Lake Creek becomes anything significant. The cableway ... More ▶︎

Dart Glacier

Photograph • Distance: 9.5km away

Located right beside the Cascade Saddle, a climb to the saddle allows you a view of the intier length of ... More ▶︎

Cascade Saddle

Photograph • Distance: 9.5km away

Looking down at the Saddle from above Heads Leap. A 500 metre cliff drops off to the Cascade creek floor ... More ▶︎

My wife crossing the schist slab below the Pylon

Photograph • Distance: 9.6km away

Being relatively new to this we found croosing the schist slab below the Pylon fairly tricky. The "track" was a ... More ▶︎

Cascade Saddle

Photograph • Distance: 9.6km away

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Cascade Saddle

Track • 1 – 2 days. Hard. One way. • Distance: 9.6km away

Alpine crossing linking the valleys of the West Matukituki and the Dart Rivers. More ▶︎

Dart Valley from Cascade Saddle

Photograph • Distance: 9.6km away

This is inspiring country (April 2009) More ▶︎

Frozen South Island Edelweiss

Photograph • Distance: 9.6km away

Leucogenes grandiceps (thanks john dutchie) on Cascade Saddle, above the Dart Glacier (April 2009) More ▶︎

Cascade Saddle Route

Video • Distance: 9.6km away

2.5 Day traverse from Wanaka to Glenorchy More ▶︎

route from Snowy Creek to Lochnagar via Shotover Saddle

Photograph • Distance: 9.7km away

Hand drawn route of above More ▶︎

Lochnagar/Shotover Saddle/Matukituki Valley

Track • 2 days. Medium/hard. One way. • Distance: 9.7km away

An alpine crossing of a saddle between 2 major river valleys. Usually done as part of a circuit of saddle ... More ▶︎

Shotover saddle tarn over the West Matukituki

Photograph • Distance: 9.9km away

With the Rob Roy glacier directly across the valley we're looking down valley toward Cameron corner where the East and ... More ▶︎

Shotover Saddle

Photograph • Distance: 9.9km away

When we crossed a bridge near to the mouth of the Shotover river just near Queenstown i reminded Kathryn we ... More ▶︎

Shotover stopover

Photograph • Distance: 9.9km away

Stopping short of descending to the West Matukituki and camping with sandflies on the valley floor we spent the last ... More ▶︎