Waeranga - Turere - Homedale

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AERANGA- TURERE in HOMEDALE. Sopt.25th. The Turere is cold nt eny time but it WaS more so nt 6.30.m. whon six unfortunatos loft morangn bound for Homedale vin the Turcre Stream. For the first hour the going is fairly onsy but from then on ono encounters - very interesting formation known RS loE jembs. While crawling under or over theso Stan mnde scvernl remarks about his Trapper prck thrt are all quite unprintable. at about 9.30 we saw the first prtch of sunlight creeping on to the strenm bed and grent ws the onjoyment thereof. Aftor . short spoll wo pushed on prst wntorfnlls, los jembs nnd vory brokon country. Some of the wn.terfalls could be climbed but only when tha strorm is very low. Having found a pstch of sunlight bout 11.45 we stopped for lunch. After lunch, end after waking the londor, we pushod on. The strenm was now getting narrowor and at 2p.m. we errived in the Turere Basin. Not being partinl to washing WO hended up the ridge to the left. Strn by this time was auctioning his pack off at a really givemaway price. Ne struck the whakanui at a point opposite a tree markod with a cross and an arrow. This is a good indication to ariyone thinking of going down tho Turere. From here on we ambled on down the Whakanui to Homedale arriving in time to wave to the peoplo in the 4p.m. bus which didn't stop. Nothing daunted we sat doun to admire the scenery,one particuler piece of which inspired Koith so much that he invitod hor down to Club the following Thursday. All that on the strength of having bought a shilling's worth of mixod swects from hor. Timos weros- Jeoranga to Turere Besin 61 hours. Turore Basin to Homadnle 25 hourso Thoss who did the trips- Frank licGowan, Keith Durrant, Stan Kinder, Snow lilliems, Grnomo Hall (Loader) and Bill Rico. B.R.