Trip report: https://patricklam.ca/post/20210402-no-gillespie/. The planned logistics for the Gillespie trip were simple: rent a car from Queenstown, stay at the Wonderland Lodge in Makarora the night before, take a jetboat across the river, walk across the pass and to Crucible Lake, and take a jetboat back from Kerin Forks. MetService was predicting 116mm of rain at Siberia Hut when we’d be walking across the pass to there. So, instead we did Blue Pools Track, Brewster Track, and the Rob Roy Track.

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20210327-082249 yikes rain
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20210328 214659160-walking the ridge ANIMATION
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20210326 010311384 rear boarding stairs v1
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20210326 011153048 flying out over wellington miramar roundabout v1
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20210326 015118021 lake tekapo again v1
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20210326 023856934 where things are zqn
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20210326 042110281 lake wanaka-EFFECTS
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20210326 060415255 lake hawea v1
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20210326 065603057 cabin at wonderland
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20210326 193317855 wonderland cabins
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20210326 215852356 blue pools carpark before easter
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04018 makarora
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20210326 222018449 bridges near the blue pools v1
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04019 flat rock
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20210326 223607577 could walk to young hut
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20210326 223812187 bridge over blue pools
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20210326 223912945 blue pools
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20210326 223917104 blue in bw-EFFECTS
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04025 slabs
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04026 more blue
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04029 under the bridge
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04032 rapids v1
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20210326 233409571 walking across country
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20210326 233911911 a river to cross
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20210326 234946970 makarora riverbed
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20210327 203716123 bustling makarora
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20210327 230454332 weird ground clouds
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20210327 232119367 small and only river crossing
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04035 fantail falls
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20210327 233149263 mp river crossing
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20210327 233154345 still crossing
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20210327 234147329 mossy
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20210327 234405519 tree
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20210328 003146682 not quite goblin
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20210328 005550889 little mushroom v1
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04056 little mushroom v1
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20210328 021533825 opening up at bushline
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20210328 022009464 makarora valley
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20210328 023103170 brewster glacier in distance
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20210328 023342328 pyke creek water from the glacier
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20210328 023425610 not quite a cirque
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20210328 023509552 treed slopes
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20210328 023517281 walking up
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20210328 024238393 sunbeams in makarora valley
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20210328 024315494 upwards and chiraobscura
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20210328 024629659 above bushline
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20210328 024716835 clouds doing their thing
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20210328 025539536 becosse
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02671 golden fields
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20210328 025604558 brewster hut
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20210328 025611616 tank v1
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20210328 030203945 inside brewster hut
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20210328 032703108 brewster hut from above
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20210328 033547006 glacier and clouds
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20210328 034805377 craggy
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20210328 035907579 glacier tongue
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20210328 040646793 back to the hut we go
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02679 brewster hut
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20210328 041022431 going back there
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20210328 041409555 sunbeams
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20210328 043816719 home sweet home
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20210328 043822889 dont mind the outhouse
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20210328 045157040 water 100pct good
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02681 yellow
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02685 back up there
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02689 the hut
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20210328 054758797 sunbeam across the valley
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02692 spot the tramper
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02749 the falls v1
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02773 topography
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02774 keas went that way
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02775 the hut
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20210328 203115715 way down
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20210328 203203097 mp
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20210328 203223620 now with a waterfall
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20210328 213325185 out with a speck of blue
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20210328 213421848 terrain
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02777 falls again
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02778 falls zoom
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