Wellington Tramping and Mountaineering Club
Enjoying the great outdoors since 1947
The Ashburton Lakes landscape is noted for its relatively unmodified, huge, harsh and vast inter-montane wetland system of wide open valleys, twelve lakes, and braided rivers. An area surrounded by tussock lands and bordered to the west by the Southern Alps it was never a place of interest to me, except as a place to … Read more
Arthurs Pass to Mt Cook A hiking trip from Arthurs Pass to Mt Cook stopping just short at the Godley Valley when the weather changed for the worse and we ran out of time. This guide covers route details for a 14 day tramp on the east side of the Southern Alps from Arthur’s Pass … Read more