Thursday, 27 August 2015

Mt Iron, or, the Waitakere Three go to Wanaka

The view from Treble Cone
I am pleased to report that all those Friday morning muddy slogs through the gorgeous bush of the Waitakeres have served us well on the southern ski slopes.  Lesley and I managed three days without too much pain, ably assisted by glorious weather and pretty near perfect snow.  On Day Four, which looked gloomy first thing, Elizabeth braved the drive to Treble Cone as it was her first day in Wanaka, leaving us to do the Mt Iron circuit.  It is a handy one hour loop which heads straight uphill from the carpark on the outskirts of town, reminding us that our thighs had indeed done some work over the previous days.  We were rewarded with great views of a dramatic cloudscape [sorry, no photo] and an encroaching sea of rooftops from the town below.



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