Two Thumb Range

Two Thumb Range – Boundary Stream, Opuha River

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Date: 12-15 December 2019.
Trip type: Medium-Fit Tramp.
Location: Two Thumb Range.
Author: Emily.
Trampers: Aimee (Leader), Tony G (Co-leader), Megan B, David M, Michael P, Emily S.

View of Lake Tekapo from Boundary Stream - Two Thumb Range featured image

Two Thumb Range – Boundary Stream, South Opuha River A 3 day hiking loop trip through The Two Thumb Range above Lake Tekapo passing through Boundary Stream and the Opuha River areas. As is a common occurrence, this trip started life as three days of perfect weather camping in the basin below the Dasler Pinnacles … Read more

Crooked Spur Hut

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Date: 29 Aug - 1 Sep 2019.
Trip type: Alp1.
Location: Crooked Spur Hut, Two Thumbs Range.
Author: Byron.
Trampers: Byron and Tiffany.

Snow covered mountain

DATE: 29 August to 1 September 2019 TRIP: ALP1 LOCATION: Crooked Spur hut, Two Thumbs Range AUTHOR: Byron TRAMPERS: Byron and Tiffany “A bit overweight, but that’s alright,” said the Air NZ staffer, as they attached a “heavy” label to my bag. “Excellent,” I thought to myself. “I look forward to putting that on my … Read more

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