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Mt Pfeifer etc from Kellys Hill July 2011
Posing on Mt Pfeifer
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Distance: less than 100m away
This pic looks westward from Mt Pfeifer during autumn conditions prior to the May snowfalls.
Mt Pfeifer is an easy ...
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Kellys Hill
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Distance: less than 100m away
1400m above, looking NW from Kellys Hill, APNP.
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Kellys Range & beyond from Kellys Hill July 2011
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Distance: less than 100m away
This pic looking SW from Kellys Hill was taken before this weeks heavy snowfalls. The dip in the foreground is ...
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traverse of Mt Pfeifer
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Distance: less than 100m away
Traverse of ridge south-east of the summit in clag. Getting around the boulder was tricky and a bit exposed.
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birds-eye view
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Distance: 731m away
Looking from Waharoa Saddle down Pfeifer Stream & to Lake Kaurapataka
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Arthur's Pass National Park
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National Park. 1145.00km2.
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Distance: 748m away
This alpine park straddles the Main Divide of the Southern Alps, with dry beech forests in the east and damp ...
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Kellys Saddle
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Distance: 748m away
Kellys Saddle - a tussock saddle between the Otira and Taipo near Carroll Hut
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Kelly Range - Hunts Saddle Circuit
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2 – 3 days. Medium/hard. Loop track.
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Distance: 748m away
A challenging circuit route traversing the Kelly Range and returning along Kelly's Creek. The direction described is the easiest option.
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Pfeiffer Biv
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Distance: 801m away
cosy,dinky even,modern 2 bunker with longdrop nearby.
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Paratu Stream - Waharoa Saddle
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Distance: 801m away
The easiest route to Mt Pfeifer via an attractive bouldered stream and a magical saddle with flybys of kaka and ...
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"Old" Pfeifer biv (Removed) Dec 2007
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Distance: 869m away
The old biv a few months before it was replaced.
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Pfeifer biv
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Basic Hut/Bivvy (DOC). Capacity: 2.
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Distance: 871m away
A new biv from early 2008 replacing an old biv that was about 20m to the south. (The sign on ...
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Pfeifer biv & toilet April 2012
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Distance: 871m away
A new biv from early 2008 replacing an old biv that was about 20m to the south. (The sign on ...
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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: 953m 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: 953m 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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Descent from Pfeifer Biv into Pfeifer Creek via scree
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Distance: 1.0km away
Unmarked route exiting basin where biv lies, maintaining altitude to cross a spur after 20 minutes then travelling northeast along ...
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Kelly Range views over Kelly Ck
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Distance: 1.2km away
Moving southward above Carroll hut on the Kelly Range.
Descending the range to Hunts saddle and returning by Kellys Creek resulted ...
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Catching the dawn on the Kelly range
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Distance: 1.3km away
The morning light on the Kelly range before it reaches the valley with Arthurs Pass
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Kelly Range
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1 – 2 days. Medium. Return by the same track.
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Distance: 1.3km away
A brief climb up to Carroll Hut on the tops at the northern edge of Arthur's Pass National Park. Magnificent ...
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Arthur's Pass
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Distance: 1.3km away
Arthiur's pass and the viaduct viewed from the Kelly Creek to Carroll's Hut track.
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Carroll Hut
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Standard Hut (DOC). Capacity: 10.
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Distance: 1.3km away
A small, tidy hut just above the treeline on the Kelly Range. Recently renovated with new cladding and new windows. ...
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Carroll Hut
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Distance: 1.3km away
This newly renovated hut sits on a pretty tussock plateau on the Kelly Range.
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Carroll Memorial Hut
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Distance: 1.3km away
Situated on Kelly Saddle, Carroll Hut has stunning views across to Arthur's Pass.
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Lake Kaniere - Otira
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Distance: 1.7km 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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Hunts Creek Track
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2 days. Medium. Return via same track.
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Distance: 1.8km away
Rough travel to a small, tidy hut. Better walked as part of a circuit.
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Kelly Shelter (Removed)
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Removed!
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Distance: 1.8km away
Kelly shelter is a roadside shelter on the Arthur's Pass road, at the base of Kelly's Creek and the track ...
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Cockayne Nature Walk
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Easy. Loop track.
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Distance: 2.2km away
A short loop in forest near Kelly's Creek, Otira.
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Cockayne Nature Walk
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Distance: 2.2km away
Short walk in rich forest near Kellys Creek, Arthur's Pass National Park.
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Otehake Hot Springs
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Distance: 2.7km away
Otehake hot springs. October 25th 2009.
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Lake Kaurapataka
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Distance: 2.7km away
"It can be beautiful from a distance..." (Holcroft)
dis-tance - detente (softening)? de(to do) tente(softening) (or hardening? - dis tente)... ...
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Otehake Hot Springs
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2 days. Easy/medium. Return via same track.
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Distance: 2.9km away
A popular weekend route to good hot pools.
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Edwards River-Otehake River
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4 days. Medium. One way.
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Distance: 2.9km away
Another north-south crossing of the park.
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Lake Kaurapataka.
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Distance: 2.9km away
This small lake next to the Taramakau Valley is a good camping spot.
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Lake Kaurapataka
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1 – 2 days. Easy. Return via same track.
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Distance: 2.9km away
Easy weekend trip to a pretty Arthur's Pass camping spot
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(Pihoihoi) - Pipit
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Distance: 3.0km away
Moaris used to mimick the pipits movements and use a tactic called Manukawhaki (decoy bird). They would pretend to retreat ...
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Descent to the Taipo Valley
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Distance: 3.1km away
Descent to the Taipo Valley from the Kelly Range, above Dillons Homestead / Hut
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Grand Traverse of Mt Pfeifer
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Distance: 3.4km away
Traverse from Kaurapataka Saddle, over summit to Waharoa Saddle.
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Dillons Hut (new)
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Distance: 3.4km away
Dillons Hut (new), Taipo Valley, Westland
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Harman Pass - Taipo River - Kelly Saddle
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3 – 5 days. Medium/hard. One way.
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Distance: 3.4km away
A long journey through the west of Arthur's Pass National Park.
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'20 minutes' rock, Big Tops
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Distance: 3.4km away
'Lost track of my past/
On deception pass/
Dont know where im going/
Can't recall where ive been'
Deception Pass (Mudhoney)
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Taramakau in the evening from Big Tops
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Distance: 3.9km away
then the rain came and washed it all away...and yet keeping low doesn't make no sense so little Eiffel stands ...
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Otehake NZFS track up to Big Tops and down to Koropuku Hut
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1 day. Medium. One way.
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Distance: 4.0km away
Attractive old track from Otehake swingbridge to open tops. Recent extensions cut from gully to bypass waterfalls.
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Below Kelly-Hunt Saddle
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Distance: 4.3km away
The Kelly below the Kelly-Hunt Saddle
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route from Otehake Track to Big Tops Hut via Koropuku Gorge
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Distance: 4.6km away
Untracked mission involving 1)crossing of Otehake River. Only able to be done at low flows. @) travel up Koropuku Gorge ...
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route from Otehake Track to Big Tops Hut via Koropuku Gorge
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Distance: 4.8km away
Untracked mission only able to be done when rivers at low flows (usually from December to April).
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Hunts Creek
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Distance: 4.9km away
Barron Ridge is at left, and Hunts Ridge at right. Hunt Saddle is at bottom right and Kelly's Creek at ...
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Mural gracing Koropuku hut
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Distance: 4.9km away
I snapped this to show my partner how cultured the inhabitants of back country huts can be. It is topical ...
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Koropuku Hut
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Basic Hut/Bivvy (DOC). Capacity: 4.
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Distance: 4.9km away
Cult Hut! A NZFS 4 bunk beauty with silken wooden floors, no fireplace, tasteful furnishings and domestic accoutrements including the ...
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Picton to Aspiring
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Distance: 5.3km 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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Rangi-Taipo Traverse from Taipo Access 4WD track
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Distance: 5.3km away
10 hour untracked traverse though unpleasant nearly impenetrable vegetation culminating in glorious ascent to Rangi-Taipo and descent via overgrown but ...
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Goat Creek track to Mt Barron
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0 – 1 day. Hard. Loop track with a road section.
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Distance: 5.4km away
Overgrown and line is destroyed by recent slips.
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Track amongst gold workings Taipo River
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Distance: 5.5km away
This photo shows a section of the Seven Mile Creek to Kelly Range tops track that passes amongst old alluvial ...
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Descent from Kelly Tops to Hunts Saddle and Return!
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Distance: 5.5km away
Masochistic mission involving at times 40 degrees gradients where the techniques of hanging off scrub and sliding to the next ...
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Harper Pass - Kiwi Saddle
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5 – 7 days. Medium. One way.
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Distance: 5.6km away
A classic crossing of the Main Divide, following the deep valleys of the Hope Fault from the Arthur's Pass road ...
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Mingha River-Deception River
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2 days. Medium. One way.
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Distance: 5.7km away
Goat Pass Track. Alpine track over a pass between two river valleys.
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Taipo River
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Distance: 5.9km away
Lower Taipo river valley from the Kelly Range above Dillons Hut
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Dillons Hut
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Standard Hut (DOC). Capacity: 10.
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Distance: 5.9km away
The New Dillons Hut (sleeps 10, stove, tank water) lies in the middle reaches of the Taipo valley, 10 minutes ...
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Taipo River above Dillons Hut
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Distance: 5.9km away
Taipo River above Dillons Hut, Westland
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Dillons Hut (historic)
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Distance: 6.1km away
Dillons Hut (historic), in the Taipo Valley
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Dillon's Hut (historic)
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Distance: 6.1km away
Dillon's Hut (historic), in the Taipo Valley
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Dillon's Homestead (historic)
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Standard Hut (DOC). Capacity: 5.
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Distance: 6.1km away
Dillon's Homestead(historic) (5 beds, fireplace, tank & stream water, fiirewood available) is a well built, well restored hut in the ...
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Otehake Hut
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Distance: 6.4km away
6 bunk NZFS style hut in the Otehake Valley, near the confluence of East & West Otehake Rivers, altitude 640m
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Otehake hut
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Distance: 6.4km away
Otehake hut is an NZFS six bunker that was built in 1963. It is the "stretched style" with a porch ...
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Otehake Hut
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Standard Hut (DOC).
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Distance: 6.4km away
Otehake Hut. NZFS six bunker with porch. Built 1962/63.
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Seven Mile hut Jan 2008
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Distance: 6.5km away
Well it is a surprise that this hut is still there. A while back I read that DOC had removed ...
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7 Mile Hut
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Basic Hut/Bivvy (PVT). Capacity: 2.
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Distance: 6.5km away
This hut is on private land and both have been bought by someone who has improved access to 7 Mile ...
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Tarns on the tops above Camp Creek hut Sept 2010
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Distance: 7.0km away
These tarns are a short walk SW along the range from where the tops track emerges. Most people head along ...
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Mount Barron Route
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Distance: 7.1km away
Old trail leading up the the tussock tops of Mount Barron. A good benched track leads up to a rocky ...
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Mount Barron Route
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Medium/hard. One way.
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Distance: 7.1km away
Old access track onto the Mount Barron tussock tops.
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Mount Barron tops
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Distance: 7.2km away
The end of the marked track up Mount Barron.
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Barrack Creek Route
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Distance: 7.2km away
Goat Hill and Barrack Creek from Mount Barron. The route follows the spur to the true right of Barrack Creek.
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Kelly Range from Hunts Creek Track
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Distance: 7.5km away
The route from the tops of the Kelly Range to Hunts Saddle drops through thick scrub to a small bog ...
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Mts Te Kinga & Alexander August 2011
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Distance: 7.7km away
This photo looks along the Te Kinga tops from the low peak near the trig to the top of Te ...
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Mt Alexander
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Distance: 7.7km away
Looking back at point 1786 ,Mt Tekinga, Lake Brunner, Kangaroo Lake, Lady Lake and Swan lake
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Mt Alexander
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Distance: 7.7km away
Looking down on the confluence of the Otira and Taramakau rivers from Summit of Mt Alexander
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Mount Alexander
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2 days. Medium. Return by the same track.
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Distance: 7.7km away
A long climb to the summit of Mount Alexander (1958m) on the Kaimata Range. This range lies directly north of ...
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Looking toward Mt Alexander from above Camp Creek hut Sept 2010
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Distance: 7.8km away
This picture was taken not far from where the tops track crests the ridge. Mt Alexander (1958m) is the back ...
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Poulter Bivvy
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Basic Hut/Bivvy (DOC). Capacity: 2.
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Distance: 7.8km away
A new 2 bunk D.O.C. bivvy located in the headwaters of the Poulter River. It has two sleeping platforms with ...
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Hunts Creek Hut
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Distance: 8.0km away
5-7 hours slog up Kellys Creek from the Otira highway, this little abode is welcome site after mud-jumping across Hunts ...
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Hunts Hut
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Distance: 8.0km away
A small but tidy hut located at the edge of a tussock clearing near Hunts Creek.
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Hunts Creek Hut
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Standard Hut (DOC). Capacity: 4.
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Distance: 8.0km away
A small hut handsomely located at the edge of a tussock clearing on Hunts Creek, west of Otira.
Hunts Creek takes ...
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Herbfields above Worsley Pass
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Distance: 8.3km away
Herbfields above Worsley Pass
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Ascent to Taruahuna Pass
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Distance: 8.4km away
Ascent to Taruahuna Pass from Otehake
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Back down the Poulter from Worsley Pass
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Distance: 8.5km away
Back down the Poulter from Worsley Pass
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Camp Creek hut Sept 2010
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Distance: 8.6km away
This hut is located 3kms up the Camp Creek access track to the Alexander/Kaimata Range tops. A sign at the ...
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Mailbox at Camp Creek hut Sept 2010
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Distance: 8.6km away
Located on the side track just before the hut.
Doesn't look like the milkman has called for a while!
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Camp Creek hut
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Standard Hut (DOC). Capacity: 9.
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Distance: 8.6km away
This hut is located 3kms up the Camp Creek access track to the Alexander/Kaimata Range tops. A sign at the ...
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Townsend hut March 2009
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Distance: 9.1km away
Townsend hut which is perched high above the TL of the Taramakau River in the scrub - tussock transition zone ...
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Townsend hut
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Basic Hut/Bivvy (DOC). Capacity: 4.
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Distance: 9.1km away
Townsend hut which is perched high above the TL of the Taramakau River in the scrub - tussock transition zone ...
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Heading back to the tent on Tarn Col
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Distance: 9.3km away
Chuzzman aka chuzz returning to the tent after getting yha on the cliff-sides of Tarn Col.
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Townsend Hut
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Distance: 9.3km away
Early morning, heading for Lake Minchin to meet the 'Chuzzman' aka 'chuzz'.
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Upper Hunts Creek
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Distance: 9.5km away
Upper Hunts Creek - valley head above the hut. Te pass to Dry Creek in the Taipo is up scree ...
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Other Part of trail to Carrington Hut
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Distance: 9.5km away
the trail after a nice rain
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Waimakariri River-Rolleston River
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2 – 3 days. Hard. One way.
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Distance: 9.5km away
Alpine tramp over Waimakariri Col.
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Track Descent
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Distance: 9.5km away
The map shows the track crossing two small tributaries before heading sharply down to meet the main river. You may ...
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The Trail Klondyke Corner to Carrington Hu
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Distance: 9.5km away
view of the grassy trail before the riverbed becomes the trail.
The hut is still far here but it is behind ...
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Grass my Arse
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Distance: 9.5km away
Sections of alpine "herbs" break up the scree slopes high above the Rolleston River. There is no track through these ...
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The Track Starts
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Distance: 9.5km away
After three or four scree/shrub combinations, where the gorge below opens out a little, keep an eye out for the ...
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Top of Rolleston Valley
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Distance: 9.5km away
There are sporadic cairns down into the Rolleston Valley, but they can be difficult to pick out against the scree. ...
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Pick Your Path
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Distance: 9.5km away
Try to stay reasonably high above the river on the true left for the easiest route down and to avoid ...
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Route Planning
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Distance: 9.5km away
Checking the map for a route over the head of the Waimakariri Valley into the Rolleston Valley. Be aware in ...
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At the top
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Distance: 9.5km away
If intending to cross over into the Rolleston from the Waimak, DON'T go over the actual Waimak Col (you'll see ...
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The Recutting of the NZFS track to Worsley Pass
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Distance: 9.7km away
How we searched for, found, recut and marked this ancient track that had been lost for 25 years.
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Upper Deception hut Feb 2009
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Distance: 9.8km away
A sound old NZFS hut in need of a bit of TLC. The scrub badly needed cutting back last time ...
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Upper Deception Hut
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Basic Hut/Bivvy (DOC). Capacity: 6.
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Distance: 9.8km away
Six bunk hut adjacent the popular Mingha-Deception route. It was built by the NZFS in 1962.
[A four bunker Lower Deception ...
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Dunns Creek
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Distance: 9.9km away
The lower Dunns Creek ascending from the Taipo to Dunns Creek Hut
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