Thursday, March 9, 2023

Rob Roy, 2023

Partly to prove we could still do it, partly for old times' sake, partly because it's one of the world's great day hikes, and partly because we love it, we did the Rob Roy Glacier Track yet again, fourth time, on March 7th. I can't say we did it in record time nor that it wasn't any more tiring than before, but we did love it just as much as on earlier occasions and are still as pleased as ever to have done it. Again. Search "Rob Roy" in the search box for previous posts. All that said, here are a few more pix.

Very helpful larger map later found on a wall of the General Store
in Glenorchy...click to enlarge

Rob Roy detail of the above trail #14, following the Rob Roy Stream









View of the mountain from the trailhead

Best "Don't Feed the Kea" sign ever, so far; by
artist Simon Max Bannister; we actually saw four
kea in flight, close by, at the upper lookout, but
I couldn't get the camera going in time...

At the starting line, already a km or two from the carpark;
pay no attention to the DOC "times" (which were established
by NZ marathon champion Hamish McMiles); they are
one-way; we were seven hours on the trail this time

Up the canyon

Stopping in the "no stopping" zone under
the great overhang 

View from the lower lookout (raining)

Approaching the upper lookout

Left (closest) side of Rob Roy

Panorama; it looks far away, but, really, it's in you face and coming right at you...

Favorite geological interpretive sign, still there!

More waterfalls than you can count

Up closer of a snout; serac city

Us, there, 2023

Great free fall, hundreds of feet

Parthian shot

New steps, for trail repair and erosion control;
104 of them, she counted, switching back and forth 

Typical South Island beech/fern forest

Walking sticks lending library 

Back in the valley, happy to be done, happy to have
done it


1 comment:

Tawana said...

You two are amazing!