Photo: Hollyford Pyke
Fiordland National Park is the largest national park in the country and one of the wettest places in it. It is steep, forested and deeply cut by fiords and lakes.
The club's trips here include the Kepler Track, the Hollyford Track, U Pass, the Iris Burn, and packrafting on Lake Monowai. Most reports are from Easter or Christmas, and the grades are mostly easy-medium to medium.
Rain is the main thing to plan for: rivers rise quickly and tracks can close.
Highlight trips
Lake Monowai Circuit – Fiordland National Park2021 · Medium
Kepler Track – Fiordland National Park2023 · Easy-Medium
Another enjoyable Kepler Great Walk – Fiordland National Park2024 · Easy-Medium
U Pass – New Year’s Adventures2015 · Alpine 1
Lake Manapouri – Hope Arm packraft2021 · Easy-Medium
The Routeburn Trackc. 2016
Kepler Challenge2012- Trip reportFar Flung FiordlandAfter two days' travelling from Christ- The next day found us tramping church, dusk found our trip arriving Pleasant Range which is true its along at the outlet of Lake Monowai. These until the end where it to down name two days included the Christchurch…
- Trip reportFiordland Christmas, 1968Te Anau, 11.00 a.m., Saturday, 21st The packs were heavy when we all December. Weather fine, but across the slogged up the ridge, but the tarns were lake, rain. It looked like the start of cool for those with the energy to swim. a wet Fiordland trip. Two…