Reference | Title | Grade | Length | Quality | Bolts | Gone | Natural pro | Link to edit content | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mikonui Spur | 1 |
|
||||||||
Head up the Mikonui Valley to the MikonuiāDickson confluence and pick up the locally
maintained marked route a short way up the Dickson River. Follow this presently overgrown
permolat track up to the tops and Mikonui Spur Biv (DOC, two-person). The ridge above to Mt
Bowen offers reasonable travel with steep sections in the lower part. Higher up, an easy sidle on
the south-west side avoids the more difficult ridge crest.
L H Parry, Ron Brown ( first known ascent), 15 November 1937
|
||||||||||
South (Sentinel) Ridge to Noisy Basin and the Whitcombe Valley | 1 |
|
||||||||
Mt Bowen can be traversed with packs to the Whitcombe Valley. From Mt Bowen, the rocky
spur out past Sentinel Peak offers good travel down to J34 460909 / BV18 360 293, where there
may still be an old marker post. Easy tussock travel then leads left to Noisy Stream and Basin.
From the 1170-metre contour, leave Noisy Stream and sidle on the true left across benches and
basins to J34 474922 / BV18 374 306. Descend the spur over a lower knoll directly down to join
the marked route leading to the Whitcombe Valley. The lightly-marked route is followable with
care, but deteriorates on forested flats near the river.
|
Attribution:
Yvonne Cook and Geoff Spearpoint,
in association with the Canterbury Mountaineering Club
This place appears in
UUID:
5ae006bb-c73d-46a6-ad90-4970ccf0f29c