by Hallu » Mon 07 Jan, 2013 9:51 am
I've just completed my 12 days tour of the South Island (CC, Arthur's Pass, West Coast, Mt Cook, Otago, Catlins, Fiordland, Queenstown). Unfortunately we had only 2 days of fine weather, and we caught the worst of it at Mount Cook and Mount Aspiring. I did Rob Roy glacier and the Ball Flat route under heavy rain, and we couldn't do Hooker Valley it was so clouded in. But at least I had perfect weather doing the Remarkables, and it wasn't too bad in the Fiordland (couldn't do Gertrude valley though, the river was so swollen you had to cross it twice waist-high).