Photo: Angelus Hut – a multi-day hike in Nelson Lakes National Park ❄
Nelson Lakes National Park lies around Lake Rotoiti and Lake Rotoroa, with the village of St Arnaud on the edge of it. It marks the northern end of the Southern Alps, with beech forest, river valleys and steep, rocky tops.
The club's trips here are hut-based: Angelus Hut, Blue Lake, and the Travers and Sabine valleys, with John Tait, Coldwater, Speargrass and West Sabine huts coming up often. There are also alpine trips, and the Angelus ridge needs care in poor weather.
Easter and Labour Weekend are the traditional club trips here, so April and October stand out in the reports. In winter the high country holds snow.
Highlight trips
Mole Hut2015 · Easy-Medium
St Arnaud and The Camel – and the rusty summit tin2021
Traversing Travers, konquering Kehu2018 · Alpine 2
Angelus Hut – a multi-day hike in Nelson Lakes National Park ❄2024 · Medium-Fit, Alpine 1
Hopelessly head over heels for Hopeless2018 · Alpine 2
Holy Cupola!2018 · Alpine 1
Dodging lazy trees on Waiau Pass2023 · Fit
Lake Rotoiti Circuit, Nelson Lakes2016 · Easy-Medium
Thunderstorms and dehy meals: Travers-Sabine Easter adventures2023 · Medium-Fit
Moss Pass2015 · Medium
Franklin. My Dear, I don’t give a damn!2000 · Alpine 1- Trip reportLake Rotoiti. Christmas, 1948Midnight, Christmas Eve 1948, saw us under way at long last. At least the "Tamahine" got under way while we (the whole 28 of us) did our best to fight for position among hundreds of other bods cramming every available piece of deck space. Our invaluable…
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