Friday, 27 May 2016

Fairy Falls...and The Golden Gumboot!

Date: May 13, 2016
Party: Anna, Elizabeth, Lesley
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Notes: Every good story includes the pursuit of treasure and mystery. We think it was at least two years ago, driving back from (we can only guess) this same track, one of us happened to briefly see a gigantic Golden Gumboot sitting in a paddock. This was greeted with much skepticism by the other two, and the viewer of this Vision had many opportunities to consider the state of her mental health over the intervening years as we struggled to find it again. Every car trip back from one tramp or another would invariably include the possibility that this was "Golden Gumboot territory", but it stubbornly refused to prove its existence. It sort of became that half-believed-in thing, that we looked for religiously, but never really thought we would see again. Except that today we found it. Gigantic. Golden. Gumboot. In a paddock. There was some screaming. We took selfies galore. Then we climbed back into the car a lot excited, but also a little sad that we had solved our mystery. 




Goldie Bush

Date: May 6, 2016
Party: Anna, Elizabeth, Lesley
Map: http://www.doc.govt.nz/Documents/parks-and-recreation/tracks-and-walks/auckland/te-henga-goldie-bush-walkway.pdf

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Nelson Lakes: Lake Rotoroa - Sabine Hut - West Sabine Hut - Blue Lake Hut - Moss Pass - George Lyon Hut - Morgan Hut - Lake Rotoiti


The chasm
Date: March 11-16 2016
Party: Anna, Elizabeth, Peter, Andrea, Chris, Helena, Jeremy, Lesley, Tony
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Notes: An utterly magic trip.
Blue Lake Hut

Blue Lake morning, before heading off to Moss Pass

Jeremy waits for the rest of us!
Helena, Moss Pass
Anna, Lesley, Elizabeth at Lake Constance

At Sabine Hut, ready to head off
Striding out on Day One
Helena, Elizabeth, Andrea above Blue Lake
Tea and a Blue Lake

Cairn, Day One
Early morning, Blue Lake Mountains



Peter, Helena, Lesley, Chris, Anna, Andrea
Blue Lake to Moss Pass
Blue Lake Hut





Scree leading up to Moss Pass
Blue Lake
Vegetable sheep!

The Rock Chute
Elizabeth summits







Peter
Tarn on the other side of the Pass
Andrea completes the huge downhill section from Moss Pass




Andrea and Lesley in the moss on the way to George Lyon Hut

Mossy sculpture


Lesley summits

Tony summits...mini Peter!

Chris

Chris and Andrea lead us off the top of the Pass

Where we SHOULD have had our tea break!

The terrain off the Pass was incredibly steep - and included a fixed rope in one area

Are we there yet? On the way to George Lyon Hut

Elizabeth lurking in the long grass

Trying to fix Jeremy's pacl

Morgan Hut track across the river bed

Robin

Morgan Hut, - we experienced two earthquakes that night

Sophistication exemplified

Our DOC man takes off...along with all of our washing!

Helena's brilliant location device

At the Rotoroa jetty with the eels

Someone was happy to finish!

Hairbrush, please! (And a shower...)