Caples - Greenstone Circuit

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Party - Chuin Nee Ooi, John Robens, Rob Hynes, Dave Noble

After completing our first walk - we looked at weather forecasts (they were not good) and decided that a valley trip with no high passes would be good option. So we decided on the Caples - Greenstone Circuit. I had been down the upper part of the Caples Valley on an earlier walk with Bob Sault and knew it was very beautiful, and Rachael Murphy, whom I had walked with in New Zealand on the last visit also reported the whole circuit as an excellent walk.

On the 6 days of the walk - it did rain every day for some of the time. But we also enjoyed some fine spells and we had an excellent trip. The wet weather did provide softer lighting - good for photographing in the beech forests even if it did make photography difficult at times.



Day 1 - Caples Valley to Upper Caples Hut
Day 2 - Upper Caples Hut
Day 3 - Upper Caples Hut - Lake McKellar - McKellar Hut
Day 4 - side trip to Key Summit
Day 5 - McKellar Hut to Greenstone Hut
Day 6 - Lower Greenstone Valley



Map - Greenstone and Routeburn Tracks (Terramap) 1:50,000


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