Emily Peak, 14 - 15 February 2015
On Saturday we walked the Routeburn Track to the Routeburn Flats and to the swingbridge over Emily Creek. We followed the creek-bed up into the basin below Emily Pass, then up to the pass itself. We sidled to the south ridge of Emily Peak, which we climbed to the summit. We camped at 1200m of elevation in a beautiful alpine basin above Lake MacKenzie.
On Sunday, we descended to Lake MacKenzie, then followed the Routeburn Track to Harris Saddle, Routeburn Falls Hut and out the way we'd come.
Party: Aaron Whitehead, Penzy Dinsdale, Chrissy Schreiber, Zoe Millington, Danilo Hegg.
Trip map. 1 grid square = 1km. Left click on map then select "Sizes -> Original" in bottom right corner of screen to view full size.
The team at the Emily Creek swing bridge, Routeburn Track.
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Bidibid / hutiwai or piripiri (Acaena anserinifolia). Emily Creek, Routeburn.
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View of Lake MacKenzie from Emily Pass
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Cave wētā / tokoriro (Pharmacus chapmanae) on the summit ridge of Emily Peak, Ailsa Mountains.
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Cave wētā / tokoriro (Pharmacus chapmanae) on the summit ridge of Emily Peak, Ailsa Mountains.
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On the summit ridge of Emily Peak. Fraser Creek below.
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Approaching the summit of Emily Peak. Fraser Creek, the Ailsa Mountains and Lake MacKenzie are in the background.
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Climbing to the summit of Emily Peak.
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View into the Routeburn from Emily Peak. On the skyline are, from left to right, Mount Xenicus, Mount Erebus, Nereus Peak, Somnus and Momus.
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View into the Routeburn from Emily Peak. On the skyline are, from left to right, Mount Xenicus, Mount Erebus, Nereus Peak, Somnus and Momus.
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View from Emily Peak into Lake MacKenzie. The Ailsa Mountains are on the left, the Earl Mountains at centre image and Mount Christina is on the far right.
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Approaching the summit of Emily Peak. Fraser Creek behind.
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Last step to the summit of Emily Peak. Unnamed Peak Pt 2117m (Humboldt Mountains) and Fraser Creek are in the background.
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Last step to the summit of Emily Peak. Unnamed Peak Pt 2117m (Humboldt Mountains) and Fraser Creek are in the background.
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View into Fraser Creek from the summit of Emily Peak.
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Unnmamed Peak Pt 2117m (Humboldt Mountains) from Emily Peak.
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View from Emily Peak: Lake MacKenzie, Earl Mountains and Darran Mountains (Mount Christina, Mount Lyttle and Mount Crosscut).
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Humboldt Mountains: Unnamed Peaks Pt 1952m (left) and Pt 2117m (right) as seen from Emily Peak.
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Tyrannosaurus rex on the summit of Emily Peak.
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Unnamed Peak Pt 2117m, Humboldt Mountains.
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Unnamed Peaks ca. 1930m, left (no spot height on topomaps) and Pt 1821m, right - Ailsa Mountains.
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Highest peaks in the Ailsa Mountains: Pt 2024m is just left of centre image, Pt 2096m to the right. Jean Batten Peak is on the far right. Fraser Creek below.
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Somnus and Momus, Humboldt Mountains.
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Nereus Peak and Somnus, Humboldt Mountains. The North Routeburn below.
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Descending the slabs on Emily Peak. Lake MacKenzie, the Earl Mountains and Mount Christina in the background.
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Descending the slabs on Emily Peak. Mount Christina in the background.
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Descending the slabs on Emily Peak. Lake MacKenzie, the Earl Mountains and Mount Christina in the background.
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Campsite in the basin west of Emily Peak. Earl Mountains and Mount Christina in the background
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Campsite in the basin west of Emily Peak. F Knob above
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At the head of Lake MacKenzie
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At the head of Lake MacKenzie
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Wading Lake MacKenzie. It's deep!
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Lake MacKenzie and Mount Christina
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Lake MacKenzie Hut, Routeburn Track
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Lake MacKenzie, Routeburn Track. F Knob and Emily Peak are in the background
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Lake MacKenzie, Routeburn Track. F Knob and Emily Peak are in the background
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Lake MacKenzie Hut, Routeburn Track
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Lake MacKenzie and Hut, at the foot of Unnamed Peak ca. 1930m.
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Walking the Routeburn Track above Lake MacKenzie.
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Walking the Routeburn Track above Lake MacKenzie. F Knob and Emily Peak are in the background.
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Lake MacKenzie and Hut, at the foot of Unnamed Peak ca. 1930m.
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