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A three wire bridge start our adventure
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Misty Fiordland rainforest
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Slightly higher up in the misty Fiordland rainforest!
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Max enjoying the creek based travel
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A waterfall blocks our route
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Entertaining travel around the waterfall....
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And up the ferns we go!
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View out enroute!
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Some of the more interesting travel, lower in the gully, before it got even more interesting higher up!
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Atmospheric Rainbow Lake
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Rainbow Lake
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And more Rainbow Lake...
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First Glimpse of Te Puoho Glacier
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Slab and glacier
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The weather was playing with the view.
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Te Puoho Glacier lake
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Slab and a view!
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Puddles and a view!
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Clouds and light!
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At camp, with our surprise mouldy 2 man tent for the night!
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Great light from camp
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This one!!
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Having a quick wander to check out the views
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Retreating back down where we had come up the previous day, was interesting with the lack of visibility
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Katherine above Rainbow Lake
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3 wire bridge at night! - this one too!
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Katherine, Max, Penzy and Joel, having survived and made it back to the car... finally!
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Map of where we went! You'll have to wait for us to complete the mission to see where we intended to go =)