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Via FYFE VALLEY and REPLICA HILL:**
One of the three main access tracks to Owen plateau. Despite the 6 h
announced it is a bit of a long day, plenty of camping places along the
river. The track is easy and well marked and had been maintained not long
ago. The gorges as especially spectacular when the sun is high enough to
enter them, around the middle of the day. Branch creek hut is a real treat,
on a small flat by the river, freshly painted and tidy. From there the
most rewarding trip is probably up Replica hill. It is the closest one can
be to Mt. Owen without being on it, Most features of the plateau are
visible there, this can be very useful to plan a trip over to Granity pass,
Sunrise peak or Bulmer lake.
Mt
Owen kaarst
Remarkable work of erosion on limestone.
Mount Owen
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| MATIRI PLATEAU:** A plod
through farmed land and proper bush to the well sited Matiri lake hut. A
3.5 h grunt in dry mixed forest leads to Pete's Poor Hut. Larrikins hut is
then 3 h away on the tussock plateau, lots of Celmisia, a few drying
creeks with the last 45 mn in a beautiful forest of short Beech and
Dracophyllum. From the hut there is plenty of scope for exploration like a
round trip over the Need(p)le or to 100 acres plateau. |
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| Other interesting trip:
HEAPHY: * * Easy and very
pleasant because of the variety of landscape and vegetation.
ABEL TASMAN: * In Abel
Tasman National Park, mostly coastal and flat, very easy, good choice for
seashore lovers, very crowded.
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