1. THE GRAND TRAVERSE GUIDED HIKE November 13-18, 2006 The Greenstone and Routeburn Tracks Days 5 and 6 Next slide

2. The Hikers and Their Guides Next slide Previous slide

3. Overall Route of the 6- day Grand Traverse Next slide Previous slide

4. Day 5 Across the Hollyford Face and Harris Saddle to Routeburn Falls Lodge

5. The Morning View from Lake Mackenzie Lodge

6. Walking around the Lake

7. Starting Uphill

8. Larry and Kath hiking up

9. Lake Mackenzie on a Clear Day

10. Lake Mackenzie As we saw it in the rain

11. June and Kath Looking down on Lake Mackenzie

12. Not much to see from the Hollyford Face on a misty day

13. The Lunch Hut at Harris Saddle

14. Crossing Harris Saddle The Avalanche Zone

15. Harris Lake in the Mist

16. The Routeburn Valley on a Clear Day

17. Looking down at Towards Routeburn Falls in the Mist

18. A panorama of Routeburn Falls

19. Looking down on the Routeburn Falls Lodge

20. The View from the Falls Lodge

21. Enjoying the Afternoon at Routeburn Falls Lodge

22. Doon Keeping Warm

23. The weather Forecast

24. Marks Haircut inspires art

25. Dessert = Pancakes

26. How the pancakes were served!

27. More Pancake Athletics

28. End of Day 5

29. Day 6 Last Day: Hike to Routeburn Flats, Routeburn Road End--- Bus to Glenorchy and Dinner in Queenstown

30. Settling the Beverage Bill

31. Sue Leaving the Falls

32. Wee Fuschia Flowers

33. Larry on a Swing Bridge

34. A Side Stream

35. Stoat Control

36. Two Keas

37. Another Cheeky Kea

38. And Yet Another Kea

39. Approaching Routeburn Flats

40. Relaxing in front of Routeburn Flats Hut

41. The first good weather report---on the last day.

42. The Coopers at Routeburn Flats

43. The Rain-swollen Routeburn

44. Hikers crossing on a swing bridge

45. Crossing the Routeburn

46. Looking Upstream

47. Another View of the River

48. Near Forge Flats

49. Mark Surveying the Scenery

50. The Lower Routeburn Valley

51. The Routeburn Goes Underground

52. View Down the Routeburn Near the End of the Hike

53. A last view up the Routeburn

54. Crossing the Last Swing Bridge

55. Mark, Kath, Larry at the Routeburn Trailhead Sign

56. Mark and Kath head for lunch on the last day

57. Routeburn Hut, Lunch Stop

58. The Hikers at Lunch

59. The Bus to take us back to Queenstown

60. Chips and Drinks in Glenorchy

61. The Group Photo

62. Leaving Glenorchy

63. A last look across Wakatipu at the Trailheadfrom the bus

64. Back in Queenstown

65. Celebratory Pre-dinner Drinks

66. Placing Dinner Orders

67. Sue, Margaret, and Terry

68. Matt and Josie

69. Our Guide Sue finally relaxes

70. Doon and Rolf

71. Kath and Dan

72. June and Pat

73. Christine and Roger

74. Christine and Helen

75. Chris and Christine

76. Josie and Doon

77. Celebrating two birthdays

78. Last Fond Farewells

79. The wonderful guides: Sue, Mark, Dan, Kath

80. THANKS TO ULTIMATE HIKES QUEENSTOWN, NZ For a marvelous 6 days (Days 1-2 and 3-4 are on separate files) November 13-18, 2006