Lake Angelus

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Lake Angelus Matthew Woodrow On the way to Cold Water she was down we went to Hut in the water taxi it was the hut. We wanted to very bumpy on Lake Rotoiti. sleept theret but Dad said we When we got there we wereg goingto camp out, so started walking through a we left and found a good lovely forest, with trees placeto campr not far away. nicely apart, just about flat, Itv was near a stream so we with grass and flax clumps could get water whenever here and there. we wanted. We started putting upt thet tents. Emma he forest was very and I went sliding on the short and when we snow slopes just abovet the gott to the end of it we could tents. Dad made dinner seet thet tall mountains. They while Mum andlsnuggled had snow on top of them up in our sleeping bags, as and I thought that I could itv was getting cold. Wet had see Angelus, but Dad: saidit pasta fresca which tasted was really around the corner great and then we went to hidden by mountains. This sleep. was the Travers Valley. In the morning the stream Itt took about an hour to get was frozen over. I took to the Hukere Stream. On pieces of ice off it and the way we went into chucked them on the anotherforest path. Wehad ground. AI kea sat on lan's to cross Hukere Stream. head while he was in his There was no bridge SO we sleeping bag. The keas had to cross the stream by were pecking at our tent a log that had been cut ropes, but didn't do any down and made easy to damage. Wel hadl breakfast walk on. On the other side then packed up. wehad larest and ate: some aeroplanes that we had We trudged through the brought with US. I was snow and went pasti thel hut carrying them and I liked it and up the hill we saw becauselcould: sneaksome Emma come down the day wheneverl Iwantedi to. They before. It was calledi Robert were delicious. On Robert Ridge Glynis Woodrow Ridge. Thet track wound its way around the side of the We started walking up the hill, through thick, tough stream. It was al long walk and it took thet track next to a waterfall. The track dirt. At thet top it was covered in snow two or three hours to get to the went almost straight up the cliff. After with big rocks pointing upi in the air We mountains, but wel had plenty of stops a while we had to cross the stream walked along thet top of the ridge for a on the way. The stream had lots of between two waterfalls. It was hard while and then went down into a small waterfalls beside thet track through the for me, andDadhadtor carry me across valley kind of place below the ridge. bush. There were massive boulders it. On the other side we, kept going up The track kept going like this for about as big as houses. They were thet track that we were following across three hours. We passed a skifield, but awesome. Some of them had rolled some loose rocks, and even across there was no snow there. down leaving a hole which you could some snow. camp under, but there was no time for When we could see Lake Rotoiti again that. At thet top we could see Lake Angelus we went down a zigzag track to the just ahead. had a drink of it. It was carpark and went back in Emma's car When we got to the big grass flats at lovely fresh water and was very which they had left for US. the top of the stream it hailed. We refreshing. sheltered in some trees. There were On the trip were Matthew (7), Neil & big cliffs all around these grass flats We were just about to go to the hut Glynis Woodrow, andl lan Bunckenburg. and it was a really neat place. When it when we: sawl Emma coming down the Also going the other way Emma (7), stoppedl hailing we started to climb up steep slopes beside the lake. When and Norm & Jacqui Whiteside. TRAMPING & MOUNTAINEERING