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Faerie Queene

Type
Mountain
Altitude
2236m
Part of
Spenser Mountains

Spenser Mountains

Lat/lon
-42.26451057,172.51517322, NZ Topo Map
Topo50
BT23 600 207
Accessed from
Waiau Uwha River
Matakitaki River
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Routes

Reference Title Grade Length Pro Quality Alert Operations
 Divide Route, 1 1 0m
1.02
  • P1
  • Alpine (Technical) 1

Use Camera Gully route to gain the ridge above the Camera Gully tarn. Easy ridge travel leads to the summit.
 South East Face, 2 2 0m
0
  • P1
  • Alpine (Technical) 2

From the Ada valley floor (map ref. M31/709806) climb a scrubby knoll till below a waterfall. Traverse right, onto a tussock knoll (map ref. M31/708811, small bivvy sites here) and then follow a dry creekbed and up a scrubby step to a sloping ledge. Climb steep snowgrass guts to a scree or snow basin, then directly up to the summit ridge. This face is prone to spring avalanches (route uncertain).
 Matakitaki Routes, 1 1 0m
0
  • P1
  • Alpine (Technical) 1

From the West Branch, a basin west of Faerie Queene allows access to the summit ridge, and a basin west of Gloriana leads to Camera Gully & Ada Pass routes.

Comments
UUID
 
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