Route Description First things first: To access both the Cone Creek and Brian O’Lyn routes, you need permission from Gloriavale. Contact details can be found on the DOC website. Brian O’Lyn Route There’s a small…
Mt Murray is a 1611 m mountain in the Doubtful Range, in the area collectively known as “Lewis Pass”. On the NZ Topo map, the mountain looks somewhat achievable as a day trip from SH7,…
Mt Cassidy Track starts at Devil’s Punchbowl Falls at the northern end of Arthur’s Pass. The track first crosses the Bealey River, then climbs steeply through a pretty beech forest. On the NZ Topo Map,…
The new track to Packhorse Hut via Tūpari Reserve starts at the Kaituna Valley car park. It’s well signposted from the car park, and there’s a big map as well if you’re still in doubt….
A big group of 22 trampers left Christchurch at about 7 am. After dropping off all passengers at Porter’s Pass car park, we repositioned most cars at Ghost Creek car park. It’s a wee car…
Mt Grey is a pretty popular hill to climb for Cantabrians. It’s a reasonably easy and straightforward walk. As trampers are always looking for a challenge, our ancestral trampers came up with a twist –…
Two car loads of CTC trampers set off on a journey to check out four tiny-looking tarns that drain the basin between Mt Cheeseman and Mt Izard. From Texas Flat car park, we followed the…
After the somewhat violent and highly volatile weather last week, all CTC overnight tramps were cancelled, including my planned trip to Top Trent Hut. Since I was really keen to stretch my legs, I put…
Lambing season track access restrictions finished on Friday at Orton Bradley, so I thought it’d be a good opportunity to check out some of the local tracks a couple of days later. I put a…
This was my second attempt to run a Helicopter Hill trip – and the second time it had to be cancelled, so we ended up in the Port Hills instead, aiming to climb Te Tihi-o-Kahukura…