Mt Peel - 14 January 2006

Uncle Roddus Tramping Diary:Tramp No 55

Mt Peel - 14 january 2006

2005 wasn't a good year for getting out tramping and it was nearly a year from January 2005 to this trip in February 2006 between trips 54 and 55. This was another CTC trip on which 7 of us headed off from the cars about 9:20am on a fine and warm day and headed up through the bush and along the spur to Little Mt Peel, taking about 2 hours on this first leg. Continuing up along the spur, we achieved Middle Mt Peel around 1:30pm and had second lunch. Ascended Big Mt Peel by 2:45pm and had 3rd lunch before heading back out the way we came, arriving back at the cars about 6:45pm. A fairly big day with a height gain of over 1300M and traveled nearly 24KM.

Heading up the first section.

The shelter on little Mt Peel.

Cool how we had this wall of fog on one side and nice sunshine on the other.

On Big Mt Peel.

Mt Lyford/Mt Terako/Hamner - Febuary 2005

Uncle Roddus Tramping Diary: Tramp No 54

Mt Lyford/Mt Terako/Hamner - February 2005

My memories of this trip are a bit vague and also I can't find any photos to jog my memory as to what exactly we did and my diary doesn't say too much either. This was a CTC trip based at Hamner. We stayed in tents at the Hamner camping ground and on a pleasant and warm Saturday we went for a wander in the hills out the back of Hamner. I strongly suspect it was up Mt Charon and possibly onto Mt Captain. Sunday we headed back to Mt Lyford and climbed up the Ski Field access road and then headed round onto Mt Terako from which there are fantastic views of the Kaikoura's and along the coast.