Young - Wilkin - East Matukituki via Gillespie and Rabbit Passes
Day 5 - Siberia Hut to Kerin Forks
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This was a wet day. Heavy falls were forecast (Siberia Hut had a
warden, Dove - and each morning and evening he would be in radio
contact - and then bring us the good or bad news)
Above - we set off down the Siberia Valley
Above - looking back up
Above - the track is very well benched - high up above a gorge
Above - At Kerin Forks - we try and find a safe place to cross - but with no luck
Above - John looking downstream
Above - the four of us (Chuin Nee, Rob, John (obscured) and me) crowd
into a small tent to sit out the rain and to avoid the sandflies -
while we wait for a jetboat due later that afternoon. Dove had told us
that for $15 each the driver would take trampers across.
Above - bluffs above the river
Above - on the jetboat - waving goodbye to other trampers that are returning back to Makaroa after we have crossed
Above - It is still raining. We head to Kerin Forks Hut. Once inside we
get a fire going - get out of our wet gear - and then the sun comes out
and it fines up (and stays fine for the rest of our trip)
Above - mist above the valley
Above - Chuin Nee photographing near the Wilkin River
Above - flax
Above - the Wilkin River
Above -detail
Above - flax
Above - beech trees
Continue to Day 6 - where we head up the Wilkin River via Jumboland to Top Forks
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