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Walking the Te Araroa Trail - Lake Angelus

Recapping this thread: at the time of walking here TA walkers were’nt advised to cross Waiau Pass (about 15 km further south) on the TA without alpine equipment & skills.

To be clear then: Angelus, the Cascade & Speargrass Tracks (next post) aren’t actually on the Te Araroa. I was just having a look around the area because i am not going to be able to walk through ..

Anyway, these are the only two half decent pix i got of Angelus (there are actually two lakes) because the weather, being NZ (I do love it though!!) totally closed in almost straight after.

It belted down the next day and it would have been “pretty grim”, as the Kiwis call the bad weather days, trying to get out. So one night at Angelus became two.

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Walking the Te Araroa Trail - the cirque of Hukere Stream valley on the Cascade Track

The final sharp pinch up to Angelus from the head of the Hukere Stream : about 450m of ascent in just under 2km

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Walking the Te Araroa Trail : Looking west up the Cascade Track / Hukere Stream toward Angelus Hut

Looking like a bit of a cauldron (its about a 900m climb) the valley up to Angelus Hut from across the Travers near the swing bridge.

Beautiful but daunting.

This was the second fine day in row but NZ being what it is at this time of year this was about to change ..

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Walking the Te Araroa Trail: From Halfway Bay on Lake Rotoiti, south toward Lakehead

(A bit out of order, this location is physically before the fiest post in this sequence)

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Walking the Te Araroa Trail: Looking south up the Travers River Valley from outside Lakehead Hut

On Dept of Conservation, TA Trust and experienced NZ local walker advice, Waiau Pass is not currently traversable without crampons & and an axe due to a heavy ice crust on the south face (which gets little sun obviously) 🤨

So i needed to burn off some of the full “bounce” box of food just collected at the great Alpine Lodge in St Arnaud and decided to take a few days and go around some of the area.

I camped at Lakehead Hut where this was taken, it was a beautiful day.

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