Holdsworth - South King - Baldy - Mitre Flats

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HOLDSTORTH i SOUTH KING il BALDY - MITR FLATS. Taking eevantago of-h club trip (August 13 - 15th.) to Ift."Hoidsworth, throo of us - Rod Milno, Tom Lawton and mysolf i wrnt as far as Bannistor hut on tho Fridey night with thr main party. -Somewhat rogratfully at first Wo loft thom to thrir slooping bags and-mugs of tra and pressodon up to Mountain Hous-, "ho night was borutifully cloar end-caln, with a Tood moon - in fact idoal for going plocrs. Aftore Vory briof stay at-Mountain 1 House - during which tino wo-slopt and-had broakeest-- Wo Wore away agoin in tino to Soo dawn broaking ovrr the Tairarapa, tho trnptation to sit down and adnire such a brautiful sight bring only partially ignorod. A briof stay at Pownll end on up to tho trig on Hloldsworth. It was beautiully fino but a wind fromth- South mado things a triflo cool and it wasn't long boforo WoWorr dropping down on to tho ridgr heading for fitro, Tho viows woro prrfoct and it was groet to bo ablo to Soo whrro you Wore going-in advanco. Ouito a change. Just as woll too, as thrre aro srveral points to go wrong, espocially thn sherp turn loft from Jumbo round to Angls Knob and thon hard right again on towards thr Broken-Axe Pinnaclos. Boforn I go any furthor by tho way, I had-b-ttor sty that Ithough tho-tripwas donn in August thrre was Vory littlo-snow so To Woro ablo to go ecross tho tops of tho Pinneclos without nuch trouble. I would recomnond this pirch of country to the Alpinists in tho Club in full wintrr conditions. # had lunch near tho Pinnaclos and took timo off to admire-tha roally nagnificont viowo Cranford roared its masive hrad ocross tho headvat-Ts of thr "aiohinewhich, incidentally, should bo oprnod up quito considerably by tho now track put in from Totarr-Flats by tho Tararua Club. Furthor Morth Wo coull Son our ridgo bumping ovrr tho Kings, up and dovn, and then a long gradn up to Girdlestone and around ina seni-circlo to litro away intho distener, Tho wholo Northorn Crossing route from Arote, ovor the "niohine Pinnaclos, across Tarn Pidgo and again that long climb on to Girdlostone stood out Vory cloarly whilo in the far.distanco Wo could SAC a corner of Bannistor. Camrras clicked nerrilyand Wo woro ablo torcolloct a-fow viows of routos and ridgos which should provo holpful in loss pleasant conditions. Wrll, lunch ovor tO got noving again but not quito so energsticnlly and by thr tino wo-got on to South King Wo had docided Wo just wouldn't mako "itro boforo derk and anyway to clinch things nist started to drift in fromtho North. In tno ond Wo docidrd on trying tho long ridgo, via a good track (according" to tho mep), off Baldy to Mitro Wlats. "o back-trackad slightly off tho King and down on to Baldy, whore aftor looking for tho markod track for a whil--discovered a fow Enciont-blaz-s and hoadnd downwards. -Tho track as such dors not Txist but the going wasn't rally difficult rnd Wo arrived at Mitro Flats Hut, luckily vacant, in good timo for trao Sunday To lonfod-out to tho Pinos and-down thr road to thr Sring Triago"end so ecross to thr road jun-ction whoro ToToro pickod up by tho truck fron"Bannist-r Hut. Tod fillod-in timo whilo waiting with soue rock climbing practico on a couplo of hofty looking boulders - but Tom rnd I just sat and looked back up on to tho ridgos Wo had boon on tho day bofore and just wond-T-d. Laurio Neilson.