Shingle Slip Knob 16-17 February

Chrcking out the plane wreak at Shingle Slip Knob
Saturday, 16 February 2013

A magnificant day in the Tararuas. Angle Knob top left, McGregor centre, Broken Axe Pinnacles to the right

The climb down off Angle Knob heading toward Shingle Slip Knob. There are a lot of knobs in the Tararuas...looks there's another one haha

It was quite steep in parts

And there she is, the De Haviland Devon that crashed 17/02/1955

It was amazing the good condition it was in after 58 years

I'm sure with the right tools I can get this puppy running again

One of the graves of the two pilots. We realised we were just a day short of the anniversary

Now for climb back up (groan). Angle Knob is the high point centre right and the spur down to McGregor is in shadow on the left

Down to McGregor Biv for the night (if you look carefully, you can see it to the right of the tarn)

The sun setting over Girdlestone (centre)

It was another good day on Sunday, so we decided to come out via Baldy. The Three Kings, with Mitre back left

a shot of Baldy taken by Baldy (deep!)

Heading over the Broken Arse (opps Axe) Pinnacles

We decided to be tough and climb them rather than sidling around them - YEAH BRING IT ON!

This one was the hardest to climb down, steep and nothing to hold on to. Not too much for us tough bunch though

Heading towards Baldy

Jumbo hut from whence we'd come the day before

Old Boots and Monsta

Was a fast desent, only taking us an hour

We came across this huge fungus thing

GPS track - 46kms and a great weekend