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Sylvester Lakes - 6-7 November 2004
Sylvester Lakes. Organiser: Marianne Hermsen We set off from the Cobb Dam carpark at about 9.30am and it was already sufficiently hot to see us hug the shade at the side of the track. A pleasant and easy 2 hour walk to Sylvester Hut where we unpacked...
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Balloon Hut - 21-22 August 2004
Balloon Hut. Organiser: Gretchen Williams Party: Alison Nicoll, Gretchen Williams, Roger Bruce, Tony Haddon. Flora Car park was full of people and vehicles when we arrived – Friends of Flora were having a working bee. We had a break at Growler Shelter...
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Conical Hill - Organiser: David Blunt Following an earlier cancellation of this trip it was a case of second time lucky as nine hardy club members set out in a chilly minus 2 degrees on the track to the Lookout Range east of Mt Owen. After fording the...
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Mt Arthur Traverse - 11 July 2004
Mt Arthur Traverse - Organiser: Grahame Harris Summit Party: We left the Flora car park in fine, cool, sunny conditions for our Mt Arthur snow climb, expecting an easy walk up to the Mt Arthur Hut. But as we got nearer to the hut we started doing a...
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Waingaro Forks Hut - 3 & 4 July 2004
Waingaro Forks Hut - Organiser: Dion Pont With a forecast of patchy showers for the day, six trampers left Richmond at 5.45am, driving to Upper Takaka, starting on the track at 7.30am. The old pack track up the Kill Devil ridge zig zags 800m up the...