text and photos: Xavier
datasheet:
Distance - 28,28km
Distance - 28,28km
Height gain - 1307m
Height lost - 1565m
Altitude Max - 1403m
Altitude min - 206m
Effective walk: 7h45m
Degree of difficulty- T1
track: here
video of the day
To the second day, normaly the weather would be better, i woke up at 6 and start hike at 7 a.m. , i started without the poncho but 5 minutes later i was forced to put it on, and i kept it until exit the treeline at about 1100m, that’s the point where the path joins the ridge and becomes interesting, i also started to hear some keas, a good sign, hapilly the rain calmed a bit, sometimes it was windy but nothing serious, 35 minutes after joining the ridge i stopped at the first emergency shelter and i had the pleasure of observing at least a dozen keas, they are fenomenal!!
They were in the zone of the emergency shelter, they are probably always there, funny birds!! I went inside the refuge, ate something and put the 70-300mm to photo the keas.
After this funny moment i kept going, there are some really nice views along the ridge, very beautiful section, i passed the second emergency shelter and next to the Luxmore summit before start the descent to Luxmore hut. I took 4h15m between Iris Burn and Luxmore hut, after that the path enters the forest, it goes down to Brod Bay Camp with some very beautiful sections, once at Brod Bay it continues almost flat with some ups and dows until the Kepler park, finishing the 28kms with 7h45m of effective hike.
A perfect way to end vacations, after the hike we went eat again another 300gm sirloin New York with a mud cake as dessert, slept again at Henry Creek and the day after we did the trip back to Queenstown, clean our Jucy van and deliver it, followed by another 32 hours trip(26hours in plains) back to Geneva.
Awesome New Zealand
Degree of difficulty- T1
track: here
video of the day
To the second day, normaly the weather would be better, i woke up at 6 and start hike at 7 a.m. , i started without the poncho but 5 minutes later i was forced to put it on, and i kept it until exit the treeline at about 1100m, that’s the point where the path joins the ridge and becomes interesting, i also started to hear some keas, a good sign, hapilly the rain calmed a bit, sometimes it was windy but nothing serious, 35 minutes after joining the ridge i stopped at the first emergency shelter and i had the pleasure of observing at least a dozen keas, they are fenomenal!!
They were in the zone of the emergency shelter, they are probably always there, funny birds!! I went inside the refuge, ate something and put the 70-300mm to photo the keas.
After this funny moment i kept going, there are some really nice views along the ridge, very beautiful section, i passed the second emergency shelter and next to the Luxmore summit before start the descent to Luxmore hut. I took 4h15m between Iris Burn and Luxmore hut, after that the path enters the forest, it goes down to Brod Bay Camp with some very beautiful sections, once at Brod Bay it continues almost flat with some ups and dows until the Kepler park, finishing the 28kms with 7h45m of effective hike.
A perfect way to end vacations, after the hike we went eat again another 300gm sirloin New York with a mud cake as dessert, slept again at Henry Creek and the day after we did the trip back to Queenstown, clean our Jucy van and deliver it, followed by another 32 hours trip(26hours in plains) back to Geneva.
Awesome New Zealand
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