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June 19, 2007
Back up to Castle Hill for our 3rd weekend away in a row
Off after work again on Friday up to Castle Hill village, on our own this time.
It was another cold weekend, with a dusting of snow falling to about 900m on Saturday night, and a cold fog filling Castle Hill basin, with hard frosts of about -6 degrees again.
We headed up to Arthurs Pass on Saturday, and walked with the kids up to Punchbowl Falls. DOC have put in a fairly substantial walkway all the way to a new viewing platform below the falls themselves, although it was a gloomy and overcast day up there for viewing.
On Sunday, I got up at 6.15am and felt my way in the fog up first the Mt. Cheeseman ski field road and then the Broken River ski field road until I popped out above the murk to watch the sun rise. Took the rest of the family back to the same spot later on in the morning to explore on a lovely, crisp, windless morning. We headed back to Kura Tawhiti (Castle Hill rocks) on the way back home to do some scrambling.
Posted by conor at June 19, 2007 2:30 PM