Copland Pass - January 1979
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without permission. Some photographs taken by Gordon Thompson.
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Our tent at the campground at Mt Cook
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Above - Gordon on the left with three NZ girls (KIm, Kim and Trudy) we
met at the campground
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Above - We climbed a low peak near the hotel - Mt Sebastapol, to get
this view of the
Tasman Glacier
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Above - Looking up the Hooker Glacier to Mt Cook
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Above - Mt Cook from the campground
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Above - Mt Sefton and The Footstool
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Above - Looking up the Hooker Valley
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Above - Mt Cook from the Hooker Valley
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Above - Hogsback on Mt Cook - the signal of bad weather approaching
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Above - Not long after, Mt Cook.
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Above - Mt Cook
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Above - Looking down the valley - fine weather away from the peaks
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Above - near Copeland Pass - the emergency shelter (we spent the night
inside it)
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Above - Looking up to the pass
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Above - View of Mt Cook
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Above - on the Main Divide
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Above - View from the top of the pass
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Above - View from the top of the pass
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Above - Gordon walking back down to the shelter
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Above - Dave on the way down to the shelter
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Above - Dave on the way down to the shelter
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Above - Mt Cook
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Above - Mt Cook
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Above - Mt Cook
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Above - sunrise
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Above - Bad weather is coming!
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Above - View from the top of the pass
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Above - Dave walking down the far side of the pass
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Above - The upper basins
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Above - waterfall
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Above - Looking down the valley
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Above - Gordon on the track down the Copeland River
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Above - Looking up the valley
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Above - We stop in this hut for lunch - Dave and Gordon on the right
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Above - Gordon on a swing bridge
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Above - Looking up the valley
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Above - Enjoying the thermal pools at Welcome Flat
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Above - The next day it rained all the way down the valley. Here Gordon
shelters under a boulder
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Above - Gordon on the left and some other trampers enjoying a beer at
the Fox Pub.
We later caught a bus to Hokatika and then went on the Three Passes Walk
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