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Roadend to Kokatahi Valley headwaters |
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From a side road off Upper Kokatahi Road, follow a track on the true right of the river up to the
swingbridge, as marked on map sheets J33 and BV19. Permission is required to cross the private farmland
here (Terry Sheridan, phone 03 755 7967). The bridge spans an impressive gorge of water-worn
bedrock and is worth a visit in its own right. A short sidle then leads to the riverbank at Adamson
Creek. Within a hundred metres or so the track climbs from the riverbed on the true left and gains
height. En route, streams are crossed and in some cases the marked route goes up them a short distance
before climbing out again upstream. Boo Boo Hut (DOC, four bunks) is on a small terrace about 100
metres east of its marked location, with the creek about 20 metres away.
From Boo Boo Hut, the route sidles as marked for a little over a kilometre and then stays high, not
dropping as indicated and only sidling down slowly to meet the spur overlooking Pinnacle Creek at
about the 500-metre contour. Marked by tape, it then drops directly down to Pinnacle Creek on an
overgrowing old slip face, a good hundred metres up from the river.
The marked route then crosses two eroding spurs before climbing up to the site of Twins Hut (now
removed). These narrow spurs can be bypassed at river level between Pinnacle and Meharry Creeks
before climbing up to the marked route on to Twins. The track leads towards the river and descends
to the Twins bridge. Cross the river to the true right. Upstream, the riverbank is slowly subsiding and
the original route is now a dog’s breakfast, parts of which are useful and parts of which have long
since been buried in gravel and collapsed trees. It’s all doable without climbing too high, and the last
kilometre or so is along the gravel riverbed to Crawford Junction.
Above Crawford Junction, the Kokatahi Valley is tracked and followable to Zit Saddle. Top
Kokatahi Hut (DOC, four bunks) has been relocated further up the valley, close to where the Kokatahi
Bivvy once stood, at the 1060-metre contour, about 200 metres up the Kokatahi Valley from the Zit
Saddle side creek. To access Zit Saddle, head up the side creek draining the saddle and climb out up
to the Toaroha Range following poles onto a bench a couple of hundred metres north of Zit Saddle.
Times : Road to Boo Boo Hut, 5 hrs ; Boo Boo Hut to Crawford Junction, 6 hrs ; Crawford Junction
to Zit Saddle, 9 hrs
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Crawford Creek |
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From Crawford Junction, a maintained track leads up the true left of Crawford Creek to Top
Crawford Hut (DOC, four bunks) in a small clearing well above the river, and continues on to finish in
the stream bed 500 metres downstream from Crawford Bivvy (DOC, two person).
Time : Crawford Junction to Crawford Bivvy, 5 hrs
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Attribution:
Yvonne Cook and Geoff Spearpoint,
in association with the Canterbury Mountaineering Club
Places
Type | Title | Link to edit content |
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Range | Toaroha Range (3 routes) | |
Range | Commodore Ridge (0 routes) | |
Range | Browning Range (3 routes) | |
Pass | Clarkes Pass (0 routes) | |
Pass | Farquharson Saddle (0 routes) | |
Pass | Hall Col (0 routes) | |
Mountain | Mt Learmont (3 routes) |
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