Traverse of the Cameron Mountains - December 85 -January 86
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We had been out 6 days.
Above - Dusk on the sixth day out. The range ahead looks interesting.
In fact the climb up onto the peak proved to be one of the trickier
parts of the trip.
Above - Dusk
Above - Dusk
Above - Sunset
Above - View from the tops on day 7. More bad weather.
Above - We camped for three nights in a sheltered valley north of Lake
Monk and south-east of Rugged Mountain, waiting for bad weather to
clear.
Above - Moss and ferns
Above - Fine weather on day 10 - back onto the tops.
Above - The ahead along the range from near Rugged Mountain
Above - Un-named lakes and peak to the west of Rugged Mountain
Above - Open tops ahead
Above - Looking back to Rugged Mountain
Above - Cameron Mountains
Above - Cameron Mountains
Above - On the tops - bad weather
Above - On the tops - bad weather - probably looking towards Lake
Poteriteri from near Lake Kakapo
Above - Bad weather
We descended into some valleys and camped near a stream at the end of
day 12. The next day we climbed back onto the tops north west of Cone
Peak.
Our next campsite was at a small lake south of Sea View Peak in the
Heath Mountains.
Over the next two days - we travsersed the Heath Mountains in bad
weather to Lake Roe Hut
Above - View from the Heath Mountains
Above - View from the Heath Mountains
Once at Lake Roe - we are abck on a track and we spent the last two
days walking to Lake Manapouri via the Dusky Sound Track
Above - The Pleasant Range
Above - The 'interesting' walkwire over the Seaforth River near Loch
Maree.
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