Mt Holdsworth Day Walk 21/05/2011

Bill and I go for a day walk to the top of Mt Holdsworth in the Tararua's with an early start from Wellington. Hit it just right as its a day of no wind and not much cloud at all.

Powell hut coming into view from Pig Flat.

Up into the open and a view back onto the forest of trees.

Got up the top and sat in the sun for a lunch break. Was able to boil up some coffee in the open, no wind at all. The survey mark on the top of Mt. Holdsworth.

Some happy.

There are still the older wooden signs, not yet replaced with the concrete anchored green metal ones...

Eventually all these non decayed functional signs will be gone. Some of the Tararua tops look like weirdo hedgehogs with sparse blue spines and a smattering of green tumors. I wonder if I can order some DOC style signage to create a bit of mayhem?


Map of the walk
This is from Top50 maps BP33 Featherston and BP34 Masterton: