Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November

Sunday, 13 November 2022
Coffee at Chateau Tongariro to start the trip - Patrick, Glenda, Tony, Jacqui - Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
Coffee at Chateau Tongariro to start the trip - Patrick, Glenda, Tony, Jacqui
It was a rather wet start - Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
It was a rather wet start
That colourful contraption is a loo, not a wagon! - Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
That colourful contraption is a loo, not a wagon!
The lower Tama Lake - Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
The lower Tama Lake
Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
The historic Old Waihohonu Hut - Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
The historic Old Waihohonu Hut
Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
Mount Ngauruhoe - Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
Mount Ngauruhoe
The new Waihohonu Hut (Palace?) - Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
The new Waihohonu Hut (Palace?)
A room with a view - Mt Ngauruhoe - Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
A room with a view - Mt Ngauruhoe
Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
The palatial interior of Waihohonu Hut - Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
The palatial interior of Waihohonu Hut
Day 2 - heading for Rangipo Hut - Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
Day 2 - heading for Rangipo Hut
Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
The Rangipo Desert - Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
The Rangipo Desert
Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
Tukino Skifield Village - around 1700m - Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
Tukino Skifield Village - around 1700m
Lahar risk warning for the Whangaehu valley - Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
Lahar risk warning for the Whangaehu valley
And again! - Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
And again!
Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
Chris crossing the Whangaehu River - Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
Chris crossing the Whangaehu River
The Whangaehu River - Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
The Whangaehu River
Lake Moawhango - part of the Tongariro Power Scheme. (Desert Road just this side of the lake) - Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
Lake Moawhango - part of the Tongariro Power Scheme. (Desert Road just this side of the lake)
Rangipo Hut - the highest hut on the track at 1560m. - Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
Rangipo Hut - the highest hut on the track at 1560m.
Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
Day 3 - heading for Mangaehuehu Hut - Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
Day 3 - heading for Mangaehuehu Hut
Wahianoa River - Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
Wahianoa River
Patrick about to take off in the wind! - Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
Patrick about to take off in the wind!
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Chris in desert contemplation - Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
Chris in desert contemplation
Boardwalk into the bush - Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
Boardwalk into the bush
Mangaehuehu Hut - Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
Mangaehuehu Hut
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Girdlestone Peak on the right - Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
Girdlestone Peak on the right
Day 4 - heading for Mangaturuturu Hut. Volcanic rocks. - Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
Day 4 - heading for Mangaturuturu Hut. Volcanic rocks.
Boardwalks to protect the vegetation. From left - Glenda, Chris, Jacquie, Tony - Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
Boardwalks to protect the vegetation. From left - Glenda, Chris, Jacquie, Tony
Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
Please sir - is there room for me in your pack? - Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
Please sir - is there room for me in your pack?
Mangawhero Falls - as seen from the Ohakune Mountain Road - Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
Mangawhero Falls - as seen from the Ohakune Mountain Road
Just getting back on the track after a 3km walk up the Ohakune Mountain Raod - Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
Just getting back on the track after a 3km walk up the Ohakune Mountain Raod
A tributary of the Mangaturuturu River - Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
A tributary of the Mangaturuturu River
Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
Wow - did we actually come down there? - Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
Wow - did we actually come down there?
Mangaturuturu Hut - Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
Mangaturuturu Hut
Mt Ruapehu with Girdlestone on the right - Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
Mt Ruapehu with Girdlestone on the right
Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
Day 5 - after heavy overnight rain we decided to bail out to Horopito to avoid difficult river crossings - Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November
Day 5 - after heavy overnight rain we decided to bail out to Horopito to avoid difficult river crossings
Around Mount Ruapehu 13-17 November

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