Sunny Creek to Lake MacKenzie, 30 April - 1 May 2011
The 174m high Earland Falls, Routeburn Track
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Gwenn dwarfed by boulders and scrub in Sunny Creek
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Looking down Sunny Creek from near our campsite. Peaks 1727m and 1667m are on the left, while the Earl Mountains are in the background
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The small lake at the head of Sunny Creek
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The Ailsa Mountains above Sunny Creek. From left to right are unnamed peaks 1833m, 1945m, 1727m, 1667m
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The Ailsa Mountains above Sunny Creek. Route topo for the climb to unnamed peak 1945m
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Kat and Claire work their way up unnamed peak 1945m. That's a lot of air under those heels!
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On the summit of unnamed peak 1945m, Ailsa Mountains. Photo Claire McElwain
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View from the ridge of unnamed peak 1945m. The next peak to the north, about 2km away, is approx 1930m high, but has no name or elevation on the maps. Where there was once a glacier, there's now a substantial lake at the foot of the mountain
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Mt Tutoko, Mt Madeline and Lake McKerrow from the north ridge of unnamed peak 1945m
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Descent off unnamed peak 1945m. Kat and Claire demonstrate the Kat-walk
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Dawn by the lake in Sunny Creek
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Gwenn on the pass between Sunny Creek and Roaring Creek
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View into Roaring Creek and Lake MacKenzie from the pass out of Sunny Creek. Our route continued over the summit of unnamed peak 1821m at centre image. Ocean Peak, Somnus and F-Knob are on the horizon in the left half of the photograph
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Our route out of Roaring Creek, over unnamed peak 1821m
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Looking back into Sunny Creek from the pass into Roaring Creek
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At the head of Roaring Creek. Ngatimamoe Peak, Flat Top Peak, Pyramid Peak and Mt Christina dominate the horizon
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Earl and Darran Mountains from the slopes at the head of Roaring Creek
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Earl and Darran Mountains from the slopes at the head of Roaring Creek
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Scrambling to the summit of unnamed peak 1821m. The snowgrass couloir in the background was our route from Sunny Creek into Roaring Creek in the morning. Photo Kat Manno
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Claire and Gwenn on the summit of unnamed peak 1821m
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Big smiles on top of unnamed peak 1821m - it took us three attempts to get up there, we were nearly ready to give up... Photo Kat Manno
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Unnamed peak 1930ish metres at the head of Roaring Creek. We descended the snowgrass couloir on the far right, after climbing out of Sunny Creek
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Lake MacKenzie from the summit of unnamed peak 1821m
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Lake MacKenzie and the Darran Mountains from the summit of unnamed peak 1821m
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The tops north of unnamed peak 1821m. Peaks in the foreground are F-Knob, Emily Peak and unnamed peak 1952m. Somnus, Momus and Earnslaw are in the background
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Looking into Fraser Creek from the summit of unnamed peak 1821m. Unnamed peak 2117m (left) and Mt Bonpland (centre image) are across the valley
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Looking at the route ahead from the summit of unnamed peak 1821m
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A happy team on the summit of unnamed peak 1821m
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Kat descending the north-east ridge of unnamed peak 1821m; Fraser Creek below. Photo Claire McElwain
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F-Knob, Emily Peak and unnamed peak 1952m, Humboldt Mountains. Magic country!
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F-Knob, Emily Peak and unnamed peaks 1952m and 1920m at the head of Fraser Creek
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The big bluff 300m north of spot height 1685m. Our rather intimidating descent route is on the far left (true right) at the top
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Emily Peak and unnamed peak 1952m, Humboldt Mountains
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F-Knob and Emily Peak at the head of Lake MacKenzie
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Dave Pratt
on May 30, 2011Another bit of precision weather forecasting Danilo. Fantastic piccies.
Gwenn
on May 4, 2011Great pictures and very detailed captions, I love it!