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Ball Hut

Ball Shelter
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1 – 2 days. Easy/medium. Return via same track.
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Distance: less than 100m away
Follow the old Ball Hut Road from the Blue Lakes car park along the moraine wall of the Tasman Glacier ...
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Ball Shelter [Removed 2009]
Hut
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Removed!
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Distance: less than 100m away
Perched on the edge of the Tasman Glacier moraine wall. Although this hut is only about 5km from the summit ...
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Caroline Hut
Hut
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Private hut (Private).
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Distance: 1.7km away
Private, locked hut on the Ball Ridge. This hut is used by guided parties on the Ball Pass route.
For ...
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Murchison valley from Tasman moraine
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Distance: 2.9km away
This picture was taken from the eastern Tasman moraine where the Murchison glacier once met the Tasman glacier.
The size is ...
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Ball Pass
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2 – 3 days. Hard. One way.
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Distance: 3.6km away
A challenging crossing of the Kirikirikatata / Mount Cook Range between the Hooker and Tasman Glaciers just 5km south of ...
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Ball pass route 1996
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Distance: 3.6km away
The route over Ball Pass looking across the Hooker Glacier.
May have changed somewhat considering the date taken.
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Tasman Valley from the Murchinson
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Distance: 4.4km away
Views across the Tasman to Mt.s Cook and Tasman from the Murchinson
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Plateau Hut
Hut
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Serviced Alpine Hut (DOC). Capacity: 33.
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Distance: 4.9km away
Alpine hut on the Grand Plateau beneath Aoraki / Mount Cook.
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Haast Hut
Hut
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Standard Hut (DOC). Capacity: 4.
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Distance: 4.9km away
Climbers' hut located on the Haast Ridge, below Plateau Hut and the Grand Plateau.
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Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park
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National Park. 706.96km2.
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Distance: 5.2km away
A climbers' park surrounding New Zealand's highest peak, Aoraki / Mount Cook, at 3724m. Mount Cook National Park is part ...
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Empress Hut
Hut
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Serviced Alpine Hut (DOC). Capacity: 12.
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Distance: 6.7km away
New Zealand's second highest hut, located at 2500m on the Earl Ridge west of Aoraki / Mount Cook.
This hut ...
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Tasman Glacier lake
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Distance: 6.7km away
The terminal lake of the Tasman Glacier from the eastern slopes of the Murchinson. I was picked up by the ...
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Hooker glacier and Hooker Hut
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Distance: 7.2km away
On the west side of Ball Pass it is easy to view the Hooker hut and the beginning of the ...
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Hooker Hut
Hut
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Standard Hut (DOC). Capacity: 12.
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Distance: 7.6km away
Historic hut built in 1909/10 and situated near the moraine wall of the Hooker Glacier. It has been shifted twice ...
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Copland Track
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3 days. Hard. One way.
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Distance: 8.1km away
Classic mountaineering route between Mount Cook and the West Coast. See Welcome Flat.
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Copland Shelter
Hut
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Shelter (DOC). Capacity: 4.
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Distance: 8.1km away
Copland Emergency Shelter on the east side of the Copeland Pass. This is serious country and should only be undertaken ...
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Picton to Aspiring
GPX file
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Distance: 8.2km 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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Copland valley, Mt Sefton
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Distance: 8.2km away
mt sefton summit from the valley floor
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Lake Tasman and Murchison river
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Distance: 8.3km away
A very interesting situation here: The eastern lateral moraine of the Tasman glacier forces the Murchison river into a narrow ...
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Mt Egmont/ Mt Taranaki
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Distance: 9.2km away
Summit in Summer. Still a bit chilly.
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Coober Pedey
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Distance: 9.2km away
Landscape outside Coober Pedy, Central Australia.
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Copeland Pass
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Distance: 9.2km away
Looking West down to the West Coast from Copeland Pass. 1995
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Beetham Hut
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Distance: 9.2km away
Beetham Hut, Tasman Glacier, Mt Cook. 1995
Demolished soon after by avalanche :-(
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Blue Mounatins
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Distance: 9.2km away
Waterfall in Upper Blue Mountains, Sydney 1999
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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: 9.4km 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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Mt Sefton from Liebig Hut
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Distance: 9.4km away
Sunrise catches Mt Sefton. From the Liebig Hut, in the Murchinson.
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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: 9.4km 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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Liebig Hut
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Standard Hut (DOC). Capacity: 6.
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Distance: 9.4km away
Liebig Hut (6 bunk, matresses, no fire, water at 200m, mountain radio) is a DOC hut on the south side ...
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Liebig Hut
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Distance: 9.4km away
Liebig Hut, in the Murchinson Valley. Access to the valley is by boat over the Tasman Glacier Lake - tourist ...
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Cloudmaker
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Distance: 9.4km away
Mount Cook (Aoraki) forms a large cloud, seen from the Hooker Lake.
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Sitting above the Hooker Glacier enroute from Ball Pass
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Distance: 9.4km away
Looking southward toward MtCook Village you've got a clear view of the route leading up to Mueller Hut
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Onslow Hut (Steffan Memorial Hut)
Hut
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Basic Hut/Bivvy (NZDA). Capacity: 4.
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Distance: 9.5km away
NZDA hut located on the Murchison River just below the glacier lake.
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