2. Tramping and mountaineering in New Zealand
  3. Kaikouras and Malborough

Manakau, 27-28 July 2013

After last year's attempt on the highest peak in the Seaward Kaikouras that turned into an epic including a destroyed tent, a triggered avalanche and a snow cave http://ninadickerhof.smugmug.com/TrampingandmountaineeringinNew/Canterbury-Foothills-and/Hapuku-River-and-Surveyor-Spur/25016348_WphrsN#!i=2049645954&k=7zzdx8d), this year's attempt -again via Surveyor Spur- was successful. Team: Silvia Horniakova, Jeremey Herbert, Dave Laffan, Matt Dickinson, Ron Monro, James Thornton & Nina Dickerhof
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Making our way up the Hapuku River North branch.
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Making our way up the Hapuku River North branch.

  • Making our way up the Hapuku River North branch.
  • Making our way up the Hapuku River North branch.
  • Up avalanche debris to Stace Saddle.
  • Lunch on Stace Saddle.
  • Making our way up Surveyor Spur, Stace creek below.
  • Making our way up Surveyor Spur.
  • Scrambling up a steep part on Surveyor Spur.
  • On rotten rock high on Surveyor Spur, Kaikoura Peninsula in the distance.
  • The team reaching camp high on Surveyor Spur around 1940m.
  • Camp on Surveyor Spur around 1940m, Kaikoura peninsula below.
  • Camp on Surveyor Spur around 1940m, Uwerau behind.
  • Pre-dawn start up the ridge towards Manakau: Looking back along the ridge. We climbed over the peak on the left, Silvia and Jeremy coming down below the flat part of the ridge in the centre image to sidle towards the saddle (look for beam of their head torches).
  • Mitre, Alarm and Tapuae-o-Uenuku across the Clarence Valley at sunrise.
  • Rob on a flat part of the ridge.
  • Sunrise, Te ao Whekere <a href="http://ninadickerhof.smugmug.com/TrampingandmountaineeringinNew/Canterbury-Foothills-and/Te-ao-Whekere-07-October-2012/25795409_tcqzXQ#!i=2134516685&k=QDdHpn6">http://ninadickerhof.smugmug.com/TrampingandmountaineeringinNew/Canterbury-Foothills-and/Te-ao-Whekere-07-October-2012/25795409_tcqzXQ#!i=2134516685&k=QDdHpn6</a>) on the left.
  • James and Manakau with first rays of light.
  • Rob on a flat section of the ridge.
  • Climbing a rock step on the ridge (could have been avoided by going around it on the snow).
  • Mitre, Alarm and Tapuae-o-Uenuku across the Clarence Valley.
  • Final push to the summit.
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