Saturday, September 08, 2007

Taranaki Winter Trip 2007






In July we did the round the mountain circuit of Taranaki. Apart from a bit of wind on the first day we had perfect glorious sunshine for the whole four days! The first day was to Holly Hut, then a mostly bush tramp – the upper level route was closed to the next hut. The next day was mostly alpine which was nice and rather than go down to Lake Dive Hut and then back-track we continued on and went down to the Dawson Falls visitor centre (which you have to go past anyway) and spent the night in the lodge there which we had all to ourselves. It was a long down!! Earlier in the day we had our crampons on as it was quite icy especially in the shadows of the cliffs. There were some lovely ice crystal formations. The last day was a relatively short day back to the North Egmont visitors centre. Glorious views.

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