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Mt Caton

Type
Mountain
Altitude
2309m
Part of
Two Thumb Range

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Lat/lon
-43.612714,170.741014, NZ Topo Map
Topo50
BX17 177 687
Accessed from
Two Thumb Stream
Black Birch Creek
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Routes

Reference Title Grade Length Pro Quality Alert Operations
 North Ridge, 1 1 0m
0
  • P1
  • Alpine (Mt Cook) 1

Make a rocky ridge scramble to the summit from either of the two cols to the north. Pinnacles can be passed on either side of the ridge.
 West Face, 1 1 0m
0
  • P1
  • Alpine (Mt Cook) 1

Follow scree and snow-grass through small rock bluffs to reach the high basin immediately west of Mt Caton, and pick a route through blocky, rocky terrain to the top.
 South West Ridge, 1 1 0m
0
  • P1
  • Alpine (Mt Cook) 1

This is a scree walk to the summit, reached as part of a ridge traverse or via scrambling through small, loose, rocky bluffs directly up from Two Thumb Stream.
 North Ridge, 1 1 0m
0
  • P1
  • Alpine (Mt Cook) 1

A straightforward climb from Black Birch Creek. Alternatively, cross onto the western slopes and follow these to the summit.
Comments
Attribution
Yvonne Cook and Geoff Spearpoint,
in association with the Canterbury Mountaineering Club
UUID
 
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