Ahuriri to Hunter via Little Canyon Creek

December 26th - 31st 2012

After a wonderful family Christmas at Guide Hill Station near Lake Pukaki, filled with delicious food and lots of relaxing in the sun, it was time to get our bodies moving again! Owen dropped Dad, Jo, Mackenzie and I off at the Ahuriri Road end before he continued onto Lake Hawea to meet up with his family.

Ready to get started at Ahuriri roadend

Our plan was to spend a couple days exploring the Ahuriri Valley before heading over into the Hunter Valley to meet Owen again. We set off at 1.20pm and were treated with spectacular mistletoe right along the bush edge as we made our way up the valley. 

Lockett Range to Cobb Valley

April 8th - 10th 2012

Thanks to a cousins 21st over Easter weekend Dad, Alice and I were lucky enough to fit in a three day tramp in Kahurangi National Park. Absolutely stunning, summer like weather led to our departure on Sunday leaving us very excited about the pending adventure. We set off late morning after bidding Mackenzie farewell for her trip to Australia and were up in the Cobb valley by 1pm. A very gentle 4WD track led us to Sylvester Hut in an easy 1.5hours. Along the way we were a little put off after trampers coming in the other direction who told us they had counted 27 other trampers heading into the area that day! Luckily for us the last people we saw were at Iron Lake and following that no one was seen until the final car park. Following on from Sylvester Hut we made our way around to Lake Sylvester and up to Iron Lake, aiming to camp the night at Lake Lillie.

Walking up from Sylvester Lake