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Lunch time at Mt Brown hut Dec 2010
View up Styx valley from Mt Brown hut June 2012
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This photo looks up the Styx valley and was taken from outside Mt Brown hut. If you look closely you ...
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Dusk at Mount Brown Hut
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Moon rising over Mount Brown.
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glennj & Elle dog on summit of Mt Brown April 2011
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Summit of Mt Brown. It is the Browning Range in the background.
Yesterday was such good weather I decided to head ...
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Mt Brown hut June 2012
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Here is a winter time pic of the hut.
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Mt Brown summit & circuit routes March 2011
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This map shows the actual track/routes overlayed in solid black lines on a Topo 50 map. The "old" Mt Brown ...
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Lake Kaniere etc from top of Mt Brown April 2011
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Distance: less than 100m away
This pic shows Elle dog on Mt Brown with views out to the coast behind. The Lake is Kaniere and ...
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View out to coast from Mt Brown hut
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This view is taken just a few steps from Mt Brown hut and looks back toward the track start and ...
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The Mt Brown ridge construction site May 2010
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Distance: less than 100m away
Looking SW from Mt Brown ridge over top of the early stages of construction of the "new" hut.
The "old" Lower ...
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Mt Brown Hut
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Basic Hut/Bivvy (Mt Brown Community Hut Project). Capacity: 4.
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Distance: less than 100m away
This hut replaces the old Mt Brown hut which was removed by DOC in 2006. The hut is in a ...
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Mt Brown hut & beyond Dec 2010
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Distance: less than 100m away
This hut replaces, but on a different site, the old Mt Brown hut which was removed by DOC about five ...
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Tracks to the "New" Mt Brown hut
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Distance: less than 100m away
Here is a gpx file. It shows the new huts location & the routes to the hut from the Geologists ...
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Leaving Mt.Browns Tops
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Distance: less than 100m away
A good stretch of the legs. Everyone else we saw on this walk and there were a few, was staying ...
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Mt Brown Hut
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1 – 2 days. Medium. Loop track with a road section.
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Distance: less than 100m away
A circuit in the foothills behind Hokitika. Excellent views and a nice little hut.
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Mount Brown Hut
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Distance: less than 100m away
Perched on a cliff overlooking Lake Kaniere.
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Mt Brown hut & Newton Range April 2013
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Distance: less than 100m away
This photo shows how the popular Mt Brown hut sits in relation to the Newton Range.
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Southern descent of Mt.Browns Tops
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Distance: less than 100m away
Moving through a boggy section of the Mt.Browns Tops route just before dropping over the edge into the creek.
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Looking up the Styx from near the New Mt Brown hut
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Distance: 150m away
This pic taken yesterday was snapped from the tussock section below the hut whilst heading for the start of the ...
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Lake Kaniere - Otira
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Distance: 3.0km away
from the north end of Lake Kaniere, along the west shore to the Styx river. East along the Styx to ...
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Blue Duck at the Tyndall / Styx confluence
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Distance: 3.0km away
Blue Duck at the Tyndall / Styx confluence
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Three Passes
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4 – 5 days. Medium/hard. One way.
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Distance: 3.7km away
A classic trip from Arthur's Pass across Browning, Whitehorn and Harman Passes, emerging near Lake Kaniere on the West Coast.
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Lake Kaniere
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Distance: 3.8km away
Lake Kanierec from lookout below Mt Upright, Lake Kaniere track
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Mid Styx hut Feb 2009
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Distance: 4.7km away
This photo of Mid Styx hut was taken during a "Permolat" working bee when a group of volunteers worked on ...
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Short cut to Mid Styx hut
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Distance: 4.7km away
This photo shows the turnoff to Mid Styx hut as described below.
Easiest access to Mid Styx hut is the Styx ...
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Mid Styx Hut
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Distance: 4.7km away
Our trip in to check out this hut restored by the Permolat Community
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Track to Mid Styx Hut
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Easy. Loop track.
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Distance: 4.7km away
Recently recut 40 minute track to this front country hut renovated by volunteers from the Permolat on-line community.
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Mid Styx Hut
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Basic Hut/Bivvy (NA). Capacity: 4.
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Distance: 4.7km away
4 person ex-NZFS hut with open fireplace on north facing terrace high above the Styx River. Renovated extensively and maintained ...
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Old Water Race below Lower Arahura hut
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Distance: 4.7km away
Here is a photo of a remnant section of the water race that runs roughly parallel with the current track ...
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Mid Styx Hut painting March 2014
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Distance: 4.7km away
Volunteers have prepared & painted the hut exterior. This is just the second paint job this 1960 built hut has ...
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View from Hans Bay Lake Kaniere Aug 2015
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Distance: 5.3km away
I took this picture from beside the lake a few minutes before parking at the Mt Tuhua track carpark and ...
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Mt Tuhua Sept 2010
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Distance: 5.3km away
Yesterday morning I took advantage of the first nice day for a while to head up Mt Tuhua which is ...
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Newton Range biv Jan 2008
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Distance: 5.9km away
This biv is perched near the crest of the Newton Range. This range seperates the Arahura River to the north ...
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Newton Range biv
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Basic Hut/Bivvy (DOC). Capacity: 2.
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Distance: 6.0km away
This NZFS biv built in 1962 is perched near the crest of the Newton Range. This range seperates the Arahura ...
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Looking eastward along the Newton Range April 2012
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Distance: 6.0km away
This picture was taken from a spot on the range a bit over an hour west of the bivvy. The ...
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Another old track sign July 2012
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Distance: 6.5km away
Ian G's. picture of an old National Park sign still marking a track in the Urewera got me thinking. I ...
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Boo Boo Hut
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Basic Hut/Bivvy (DOC). Capacity: 4.
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Distance: 6.6km away
Located on the Kokatahi River track just south of where a branch leads up onto the Toaroha Range.
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Boo Boo hut & woodshed March 2009
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Distance: 6.6km away
TL of the Kokatahi valley. High on a ridge well above the river gorges.
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Toaroha/Zit Saddle/Kokatahi/Lathrop Saddle/Styx River Route
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3 – 5 days. Medium/hard. Loop track with a road section.
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Distance: 7.3km away
Loop track across 2 Westland saddles, taking in some remote huts
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Browning Range Bivouac
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Basic Hut/Bivvy (DOC). Capacity: 2.
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Distance: 7.3km away
'If you're just about buggered, you're just about at Browning Biv'. The sign below the biv says it all: it's ...
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Grassy Flats
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Distance: 7.3km away
Grassy Flats, in the upper Styx Valley (Westland). Taken fron Browning Range Biv, 600m above.
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Browning Range Bivouac
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Distance: 7.3km away
Browning Range Bivouac, on the bush-line in the Browning Range - the hut overlooks the Styx Valley and Grassy Flat, ...
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Browning Range Biv - almost ...
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Distance: 7.3km away
Browning Range Biv - almost there ...
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Route Guide: Otira to Mt Cook Village (pt 1)
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12 – 21 days. Hard. One way.
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Distance: 7.3km away
One possible route down the main divide from Otira on the Arthur's Pass road to Mt Cook Village.
Otira Hotel to ...
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Route Guide: Otira to Mt Cook Village (pt 2)
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12 – 21 days. Hard. One way.
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Distance: 7.3km away
One possible route down the main divide from Otira on the Arthur's Pass road to Mt Cook Village.
Otira Hotel ...
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Grassy Flats Hut
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Distance: 7.6km away
Grassy Flats Hut in the upper Styx Valley, Westland. The hut lies on the easy, benched Arahura-Styx track, and is ...
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Grassy Flat Hut
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Standard Hut (DOC). Capacity: 12.
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Distance: 7.6km away
Grassy Flat Hut (sleeps 12 on 2 platforms, matresses, water, stove) is a modern tramping hut with a large covered ...
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Hans Bay Campsite
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Basic Campsite (DOC). 40 spaces.
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Distance: 7.6km away
Large campsite next to Lake Kaniere. Very popular with families over the summer.
Dogs are not permitted.
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Hans Bay, Lake Kaniere
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Distance: 7.7km away
Hans Island is just a short swim from the shoreline.
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Map of Toaroha Valley to Pinnacle Biv via Adventure Ridge routes
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Distance: 7.8km away
This map is to illustrate the route info provided under the Comments section of the Pinnacle biv hut page.
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Pinnacle biv (aka Crinkle Top biv)
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Basic Hut/Bivvy (DOC). Capacity: 2.
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Distance: 7.8km away
An old late 1950's NZFS cullers biv situated up in the tussock near the top of Mt Crinkle Top. This ...
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Setting of Pinnacle biv (aka Crinkle Top biv) March 2012
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Distance: 7.8km away
This pic shows the replacement biv which was moved to this site in 2011. It is the same design & ...
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Genoa Peak March 2009
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Distance: 7.9km away
This pic is of the eastern side of Genoa Peak and was taken from just above Pinnacle biv on the ...
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Pinnacle biv (aka Crinkle Top biv) March 2009
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Distance: 7.9km away
A survivor from the deer culling days before helicopters! This biv gave shooters access to hundreds of hectares of tussock ...
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Browning Range
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Distance: 8.0km away
From the Browning Bivvy on the bushline above the Styx River we climbed in the dark to reach the top ...
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Lathrop Saddle
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Distance: 8.2km away
Lathrop Saddle - a hanging valley cutting through the Browning Range between the Styx and Crawford valleys. A marked track ...
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"New" Lower Arahura hut June 2010
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Distance: 8.3km away
A replacement DOC 6 bunk hut for the old NZFS 4 bunk hut that used to sit 30m to the ...
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"Old" Lower Arahura hut (removed)
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Distance: 8.3km away
This photo shows the "old" Lower Arahura hut as it was in January 1976 when it had recently received a ...
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Lower Arahura hut
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Standard Hut (DOC). Capacity: 6.
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Distance: 8.3km away
A new DOC 6 bunk hut that replaces the old 4 bunk NZFS hut. The new hut is 30m east ...
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View of McArthur Crags from the Newton Range Jan 2008
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Distance: 8.3km away
This picture was taken from just north of the Newton Range biv. I took it to show the band of ...
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Lower Arahura Hut
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Distance: 8.3km away
A nice new 6 bunk hut in the Arahura valley.
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Toaroaha Saddle-Frew Saddle Circuit
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4 – 6 days. Medium. One way.
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Distance: 8.4km away
A great tramp in a remote location, crosses two alpine saddles, ice-axes and crampons needed in winter. More information on ...
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Crossing Lathrop Saddle
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Distance: 8.4km away
Crossing Lathrop Saddle from the Crawford towards Browning Biv
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Lathrop Saddle feet dangle
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Distance: 8.6km away
Sitting on the edge of Lathrop. Spot the biv. Descent far right on the tussock spur. Dangling feet highly recommended.
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Top Crawford Hut (Removed)
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Removed!
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Distance: 9.2km away
Top Crawford Hut (4-bunks, matresses, tank water, no fire) is a typical forestry-style hut. It's located on a small terrace ...
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Top Crawford Hut
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Distance: 9.2km away
Top Crawford Hut, Crawford Creek, Westland.
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View of Mt Lathrop etc. and further east
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Distance: 9.2km away
This photo looks east along the Browning Range. Lathrop Saddle crosses this scene in front of the prominent Mt Lathrop ...
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Looking SW from Mt Lathrop March 2017
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Distance: 9.3km away
This is the view looking out over the Crawford and Kokatahi Rivers in a south westerly direction. The Bracken snowfield ...
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Kahikatea Walk, Lake Kaniere
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Easy. Loop track.
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Distance: 9.3km away
Short loop through mossy forest.
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Route down off McArthur Crags to Lower Olderog biv Jan 2010
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Distance: 9.3km away
This pic shows the SE leading spur off the top of Mt McArthur that leads down to Lower Olderog biv. ...
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Lower Olderog biv (aka Jade biv)
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Basic Hut/Bivvy (DOC). Capacity: 2.
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Distance: 9.3km away
This NZFS biv dating from 1957 is located on a bench well above the creek bed in the headwaters of ...
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Lower Olderog biv (aka Jade biv) Feb 2009
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Distance: 9.3km away
This biv is located on a bench well above the creek bed in the headwaters of Jade Creek. It is ...
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Blue Ducks
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Distance: 9.5km away
Blue Ducks on Crawford Creek, Westland. Between Top Crawford Hut and Top Crawford Bivouac
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Crawford Biv looking up Lathrop saddle
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Distance: 9.5km away
Lathrop saddle is off to the right, the spur to it is center above biv.
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Picton to Aspiring
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Distance: 9.5km away
An aborted alpine traverse. Picton to West Cape, but aborted at Aspiring due to real world emergencies back home. Posted ...
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View East from Top Crawford biv Dec 2010
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Distance: 9.5km away
This pic was taken from the biv & shows the basin immediately East of the biv. Thought the ribbonwoods looked ...
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Mount Learmont
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Distance: 9.6km away
Mount Learmont and the upper Crawford Valley, Westland
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Top Crawford Bivouac
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Distance: 9.6km away
Top Crawford Bivouac, Crawford Valley, Westland
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Top Crawford Bivouac (Removed)
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Removed!
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Distance: 9.6km away
The Top Crawford Bivouac (2 bunks, no matresses, stream water 100m distant, no fire) is a typical alpine Biv, with ...
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Upper Styx valley
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Distance: 9.6km away
Upper Styx valley and Grassy Flats, from the track over Styx Saddle.
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Jade Prospectors hut at Olderog/Jade Ck confluence Feb 2009
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Distance: 9.6km away
This hut is known by the names of both the creeks it is at the confluence of. We used to ...
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Blue Duck Bivvy
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Basic Hut/Bivvy (DOC).
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Distance: 9.7km away
A derelict B-49 NZ Forest Service hunters bivvy that was built in the late 1950's and is still on site. ...
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Blue Duck Bivvy Setting Feb 2016
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Distance: 9.7km away
Blue Duck Bivvy is a derelict B-49 style NZ Forest Service hunters bivvy that was built in the late 1950's ...
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Top Crawford Hut
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Distance: 9.7km away
Near old Top Crawford Biv site, this 4 bunk forest service hut was refurbished and relocated in February 2011. It ...
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"New" Top Crawford hut Feb 2012
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Distance: 9.8km away
This photo is of the "new" Top Crawford hut which is an hour walk up the valley from the location ...
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Rear view of "New" Top Crawford hut
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Distance: 9.8km away
Here is a rear view of the hut. The perspective is looking NNW past the hut and over the two ...
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Top Crawford Hut (New)
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Standard Hut (DOC). Capacity: 4.
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Distance: 9.8km away
This entry is for the "new" Top Crawford hut which is an hour walk up the valley from the location ...
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Mt Kerr
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Distance: 9.9km away
Exploring the exposed tops above the Arahura RIver just before a front rolls in. Reached by an old NZFS track ...
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Styx Saddle
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Distance: 9.9km away
Styx Saddle - between the Styx and Arahura valleys in Westland. The Campbell Range forms a backdrop beyond the upper ...
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