Rakaia Valley

The Two Thumb Range to the Rakaia

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Date: April 2016 and Oct 2016.
Trip type: A bike packing traverse.
Location: Canterbury.
Author: Jenny Cossey.
Trampers: Jenny Cossey.

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

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Date: 19 December 2015 to 2 January 2016.
Trip type: Alpine tramping.
Location: Canterbury High Country.
Author: Kevin Cole.
Trampers: Megan Sety, Illona Keenan, Kevin Cole, Tony Gazley.

This guide covers route details for a 14 day tramp on the east side of the Southern Alps from Arthur’s Pass to the Godley Valley during Dec 2015/ Jan 2016. Our trip planning was helped by several websites and blogs and so we hope that this document will be pay back and help anyone hoping … Read more