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Matukituki to Paradise by roads less travelled
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Distance: less than 100m away
A rough, tough crossing from Raspberry Flat (Aspiring Road, Wanaka) to the Earnslaw Burn (Glenorchy-Paradise road) via Shotover Saddle, Lochnagar, ...
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Haast to The Divide
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Distance: less than 100m away
Andrew Barker's traverse 2009. From Pleasant Flat in the Haast to The Divide via Mt Aspiring National Park.
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Rees Saddle from near Cleft Peak
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Distance: 167m away
Rees Saddle from near Cleft Peak; Snowy Creek to the right, & the Rees to the left.
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Rees-Dart Track
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3 – 4 days. Medium/hard. Loop track.
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Distance: 167m away
Alpine circuit along two river valleys at the head of Lake Wakatipu.
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Rees Saddle
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Distance: 167m away
This picture was take at the top of the rees saddle looking down towards the rees vally in december 2006
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Aspiring - Rees
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Distance: 551m away
Starting at Raspberry Flat, this track passes Mt Aspiring Hut in the West Matukituki Valley and then climbs steeply to ...
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Rees - Dart
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Distance: 551m away
Starting at Muddy Creek, this track heads up the Rees River to the head of the valley with a short ...
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The sun is always brighter on the other side
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Distance: 895m away
That's the last we'll see of the sun tonight. The Rees valley continues to be flooded with rays.
Rees Saddle from ...
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Overnight beside Snowy Ck. - Mt.Aspiring NP NZ
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Distance: 910m away
Looking upstream on Snowy Ck. after crossing Rees saddle. Around the corner is a broad spur giving access to a ...
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Rees Vally
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Distance: 3.1km away
A photo taken looking towards the rees saddle, taken inbetween rees saddle and shelter rock hut
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Dart Hut
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Distance: 3.4km away
Dart hut, taken from the swing bridge crossing the Snowy stream, just as you approach the hut
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The spur between Snowy Ck and Pine Ck basin - Lochnagar route
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Distance: 4.3km away
The book at Tummel Burn hut in the upper Shotover would have you believe nine out of ten people descend ...
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Shelter Rock Hut
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Serviced Hut (DOC). Capacity: 22.
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Distance: 4.3km away
In the Rees Valley. One of the huts on the Rees-Dart Track
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Shelter Rock Hut
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Distance: 4.3km away
Shelter Rock Hut in its surrounding mountains
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Snowy Creek
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Distance: 5.0km away
Snowy Creek - viewed from saddle 1950 on the way over from Lochnagar Hut
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The upper basin of Pine Creek. Mt.Aspiring NP NZ
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Distance: 5.2km away
After crossing over the pass from Snowy Ck, it was thought we'd get a break from the wind. Fortunately we ...
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Pine Creek
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Distance: 5.4km away
Upper basin of Pine Creek, crossing to Snowy from Lochnagar
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Earnslaw Burn Rock Bivvy, underneath.
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Distance: 5.5km away
Underneath the Rock Bivvy. This one is about 20 minutes upstream from the official one on the top map and ...
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Earnslaw Burn Rock Bivvy
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Distance: 5.5km away
This is an alternative bivvy to the one shown on topo maps. This bivvy is about 20 minutes upstream from ...
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Earnslaw Burn Rock Bivvy
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Distance: 5.5km away
Alternative rock bivvy from the biv shown on the topo map. This bivvy is on the true left of the ...
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The mind of a mischief at work
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Distance: 5.7km away
Kea show their usual boundless curiosity in Pine Ck basin.
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Have we met?
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Distance: 5.7km away
This may well be the same group that visit us on Shotover Saddle the night after next. The ones who ...
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Dart/Lochnagar
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1 – 2 days. Hard. One way.
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Distance: 5.8km away
10 hour trip from Dart Hut to Lochnagar via Snowy Saddle
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Standing above Lochnagar (Goat Lake) - Mt.Aspiring NP
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Distance: 6.3km away
No snow in March 2010 on the south facing slopes to the north of Lochnagar. Taken from the col between ...
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Approaching Mt Tyndall
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Distance: 6.6km away
Mt Tyndall (2,496m) sits above the Isobel Glacier south of Cascade Saddle.
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Mt Tyndall
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Distance: 6.6km away
from Cascade Saddle, looking south-east across Heads Leap to Mt Tyndall (2496m) (April 2009)
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A meeting with the water.
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Distance: 6.6km away
Providing a different perspective to show the scale of things. Still a couple of hundred metres above the lake. Lochnagar ...
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Descending to Lochnagar Hut
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Distance: 6.7km away
Standing above the lake to its north. Showing the outlet which becomes sub-terranian. This spur leads down from Pt.1865 which ...
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25 Mile Hut
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Removed!
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Distance: 6.7km away
*EDIT* From DOCs website:
28 April 2016: Rees Valley - 25 Mile Hut removed
The derelict 25 Mile Hut in the Rees ...
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25-Mile Hut
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Distance: 6.7km away
This is a derelict Hut on the Rees Dart track. It is in an ideal location on a terrace above ...
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Lochnagar Hut
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Private hut (PVT). Capacity: 4.Bookings required.
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Distance: 6.7km away
Old style musterers hut yet rebuilt in 1990. Painted corrugated iron half buried in earth with a partial schist slabbed ...
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Mt Earnslaw from Earnslaw Burn
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Distance: 6.7km away
The cirque at the head of the Earnslaw Burn, taken from the descent from Lennox Pass
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Lochnagar Hut
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Distance: 6.8km away
A hut was built here at Lochnagar in 1982. It was burnt down in 1988. As part of the 150th ...
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Lennox Creek, South Branch
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Distance: 8.2km away
Upper crossing of Lennox Creek (south branch). Not a place to be with unstable snow above.
The next viable crossing is ...
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Cascade Saddle Camp
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Distance: 8.4km away
Nice campsite where the Cascade Saddle track crosses the top of Cascade Creek, with Mt Aspiring visible over the ridge. ...
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Route from Pine Creek to Matukituki Valley via Shotover Saddle
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Distance: 8.6km away
(Partial) route from Pine Creek to Matukituki via Shotover Saddle. The cattle track passage in this file is probably very ...
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Lochnagar landslide dam
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Distance: 8.6km away
Lochnagar landslide dam, looking up Lake creek
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Rees valley
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Distance: 8.6km away
Looking up the Rees valley from near 25-mile spur (April 2009)
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Tummel Burn Hut
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Basic Hut/Bivvy (PVT). Capacity: 3.
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Distance: 8.7km away
Low 3 person unbunked private hut with open fire. 3 mattresses present (2009). Water supply from Tummel Burn 20m distant. ...
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Earnslaw Hut - Mt.Earnslaw - Mt.Aspiring NP
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Distance: 8.9km away
At appx 980m set in beech forest above the Rees valley. This historic hut is on a short 50m side ...
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Looking inside Earnslaw Hut - Mt.Aspiring NP
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Distance: 8.9km away
An old hut with a distinctive rustic look. I believe many people would prefer to occupy the rock bivvy at ...
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Earnslaw Hut
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Distance: 8.9km away
Rough four-bunk historic hut below Kea Basin on the ascent to Mt Earnslaw
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Earnslaw Hut
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Basic Hut/Bivvy (DOC). Capacity: 4.
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Distance: 8.9km away
Earnslaw hut. Located near Kea Basin on the slopes of Mt Earnslaw, above the Rees valley.
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Upper Shotover
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Distance: 8.9km away
Shotover valley from the spur between Tummel Burn and Tyndall Creek.
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Snowy Creek
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Distance: 9.0km away
Snowy Creek - viewed from saddle 1950 on the way over from Lochnagar Hut
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Snowy Creek
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Distance: 9.0km away
Snowy Creek - viewed from saddle 1950 on the way over from Lochnagar Hut
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Kea Basin Bivvy - Mt.Earnslaw
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Distance: 9.0km away
This is one of the best bivvy rocks i've seen. Situated at appx 1060m on the north flank of Mt.Earnslaw. ...
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Rees Vally
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Distance: 9.2km away
This is a picture taken on the rees/dart track and is on day 2 of our tramp in between shelter ...
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Cattle Flat Bivy Rock
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Natural shelter (NA).
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Distance: 9.2km away
A huge shelter rock in the Dart half way between Dart & Daleys Huts. It is back in the bush ...
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Cattle Flat Biv
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Distance: 9.2km away
Plenty of room for everyone to get out of the rain and enjoy a brew
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Lower Matukituki
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Distance: 9.2km away
Taken from the Cascade Saddle route a short distance below the Pylon looking downvalley towards the carpark at Raspberry Flat. ...
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West Matukituki valley
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Distance: 9.2km away
Taken from the Cascade Saddle route not far below the Pylon, looking up valley towards Mt Aspiring which towers above ...
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Glengyle Peak
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Distance: 9.2km away
Taken from below the Pylon on the Cascade Saddle route looking across the West matukituki towards Glengyle. If you look ...
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from Cascade Saddle
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Distance: 9.4km away
looking to the SE from Cascade Saddle, across Heads Leap to Cascade Falls
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Dart Glacier
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Distance: 9.5km away
Located right beside the Cascade Saddle, a climb to the saddle allows you a view of the intier length of ...
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Cascade Saddle
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Distance: 9.5km away
Looking down at the Saddle from above Heads Leap. A 500 metre cliff drops off to the Cascade creek floor ...
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Crossing Lake Creek out of Lochnagar
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Distance: 9.6km away
The descent from Lochnagar to the Shotover river goes past a sub-terranian outlet before Lake Creek becomes anything significant.
The cableway ...
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My wife crossing the schist slab below the Pylon
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Distance: 9.6km away
Being relatively new to this we found croosing the schist slab below the Pylon fairly tricky. The "track" was a ...
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Cascade Saddle
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1 – 2 days. Hard. One way.
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Distance: 9.6km away
Alpine crossing linking the valleys of the West Matukituki and the Dart Rivers.
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Dart Valley from Cascade Saddle
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Distance: 9.6km away
This is inspiring country (April 2009)
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Frozen South Island Edelweiss
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Distance: 9.6km away
Leucogenes grandiceps (thanks john dutchie) on Cascade Saddle, above the Dart Glacier (April 2009)
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route from Snowy Creek to Lochnagar via Shotover Saddle
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Distance: 9.8km away
Hand drawn route of above
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Lochnagar/Shotover Saddle/Matukituki Valley
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2 days. Medium/hard. One way.
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Distance: 9.8km away
An alpine crossing of a saddle between 2 major river valleys. Usually done as part of a circuit of saddle ...
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