Traverse of the Cameron Mountains - December 85 -January 86

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Party - Bob Sault, Tony Norman, Steve Henzell, John Atkinson, Dave Noble

The Cameron Mountains lie in the remote south west corner of Fiordland, New Zealand. The area is very rugged and subject to bad weather. Our plan was to walk around the south coast and then climb onto the range, traverse it and exit via the Heath Mountains and the Dusky Sound Track to Lake Manapouri. We carried food and equipment for 18 days. The walk ended up taking 17 days. This was an excellent walk - one of the best I have done.

Steve Henzell's report of the trip can be found here in "Press On Regardless"

I had earlier been on a traverse of the nearby Princess Mountains.

Above - South Coast rainforest

Above - The track went over several spectacular old bridges such as this one. The track here followed an old tramway.

Above - Detail

On our third day out, we left the track and followed up the Aan River to camp at Lake Innes

Above - Dawn - Lake Innes

Above - Lake Innes. We spent two nights camped at the Lake - waiting for the weather to improve before venturing onto the tops.

We then climbed up onto the range via Mt Aitken