Anatoki River and Adelaide Tarn

 Ian Hunt, Paul Hanson, and Anthony Oakly all off to Anatoki Hut and furthur.

18th April 2003

0745 Started walking from the car park.

 Uphill thru farm land, it is an old pack track that sidles thru the contours.

1200 At Anatoki bend, seems to be a bit of a camp site.
1500 At hut. Its ok. No one else here yet.

19th April 2003

Just Paul and Ian off for a blast, Anthony having a hut day.
1000 Left hut.
1100 At peak 1270m
1124 At Peak 1355m
1237 On Yultide Peak. Awesome.
1300 At saddle. Paul going down to the tarn,  me going up.

 

 

1400 off back to the hut.

1605 Down fast....
1630 At river and heading for hut.
1650 At hut, and fellow trampers have arrived. After food in the dark we went for a walk down the river. 2005 In bed.

20th April 2003

Paul and I blasted up a river and Anthony headed out. 

We boulder-ed for awhile and potted around here and there.

1400 Back at hut packing and eating.
1505 Left hut - heading out.
1840 Found Anthony camped 15 mins from car park. All off down to car and heading home.

Lookout Range

Ben and I did an brief explore of Lookout and Hope Range  as a  day trip.

Sunday 13/04/2003
0710 Ben devised an interesting trip across an interesting rang, so I went with him. He picked me up early morning and we headed out of Nelson.
0900'ish walking.

Enjoyed the rock formations on this range
1200 Having lunch on the Hope range.
1355 On Lookont Range, headed along the range and down a gulley sidling back to the Hope range.
1833 Off back to Nelson, heard a Kea on the way out.

The following map shows the area.

Richmond Range Trip

Ian Hunt, Brian Sheridan,  Richard Beumont, and Ian Hunt off to the Richmond ranges to check out the Union Airways Electra that crashed in 1942.

Monday 31/03/2003
Meet up with Brian at Katmandu in Nelson, got a few bits and off to Picton to get Richard.
We then headed off to Lake Chalice. Went for a bit of a wander to the lake and then back to the hut for food.

Tuesday 1/04/2003
Woke and got fed and its raining. We wandered around the lake in the rain, did the full track, in about two hours.
1350 Back at the hut, still raining.
1617 Went up to the car and got the weather report from Brian's Dad Tom:
Clearing tonite.
Clear tomorrow with Cold southerly
Clear and nice thursday
Clagging in again friday, probably in the West and not these ranges
That seems promising.

Wednesday 2/04/2003
Headed off up to car and drove off to Road end up Timms creek for our Richmond caper.

1143 Left car.
1621 At Fell hut.
1641 Brian and Richard arrived.
At Fell hut on the Richmond range. Took us under 5 hours to get here.
Eating food etc.
No views, cold.

Thursday 3/04/2003
Headed off to plane crash area.

Went all over the place and found big chunks and the engine. There is a plaque on the hill to the people, three men and two woman.
In the afternoon, about 1600 headed off to Fell peak.

Friday 04/04/2003
Wandered off to Mt Richmond in the morning and then back to the hut for a bit of food etc.

The walk to Mt Richmond was awesome a bit of a cold wind but lots of clear sky and no rain. Only was Brian and I as Richard has a bit of a back issue. Awesome views.
Back to find Richard and then back to the hut.
Headed off out down to the car.
Got there first and had a brief swim in the river - cold as.
Drove off to Picton and got hot chips, dropped Richard off at the ferry.
Drove off to Nelson and dropped off Brian in Richmond, saw his Dad breifly.