Bitch Gorge, 25 - 30 October 2003
Yes we did run out of food...
No the photographs aren't great...
...but it was the best tramp ever!
Alex Hood, Ben Temple, Ellen Robertson, Lisa Hegg, 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
Driving into Doubtful Sound
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The Team (minus the photographer)
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A toilet-paper cricket game at Deep Cove
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Boating across Doubtful Sound
The start of the gorge
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Where the going gets serious
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Our bivvy site for the first night... a boulder right at the edge of the water!
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Another picture of the bivvy site. There really wasn't anywhere else to sleep.
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Alex perched in his bivvy bag on a square boulder at the edge of the river
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The gorge just below Lake Aquanaut
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Lake Aquanaut. No way around it!
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Floating on Lake Aquanaut. Photo by Lisa Hegg
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Floating on Lake Aquanait. Ellen Falls on the left.
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Lake Aquanaut - two inflatables coming out of the gorge.
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The steep mountain walls at the head of Lake Aquanaut
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Not pretty... just the way it was!
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River crossing, Princess River (left); Floating on Leak Lake (right)
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Try inflating a boat in thick Fiordland jungle...
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Floating on Leak Lake. Our packs inside the yellow packliners. Yes, they leaked...
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Floating across Leak Lake
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Floating across Leak Lake
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Soaking wet at the far end of Leak Lake
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Still in high spirits
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In the head-waters of the Princess River
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The source of the Princess River
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On Beer Pass, separating Elaine Stream from the Princess River
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Descending into Elaine Stream
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Dave Pratt
on March 19, 2011Hell Danilo, how come you always seem to get blue skies and sun for your tramping trips in Fiordland? Never happens to me. Love your site by the way.