Our trip in to Lees Valley looking for Snow
17 June 2006
We went in from North Loburn over the snow covered Okuku Pass and in to Lees valley as far as the main river in the middle then turned around and went back the same way.
We think crossing the river would have been quite dooable but i would have wanted to take the video camera off the bike and walk that across first. Time was starting to be an issue and i didn't want wet feet (Plug already had them) so the u-turn was decided (as expected).
The snow came and went and in places there was just big patches of frozen compacted snow and they are not much fun but do make life interesting.
Our score is something like Plug, 3 drops and wet feet.
Transalper (that's me)1 drop and dry feet.
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1-scenery on a diversion before the Valley.
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2- Somewhere in the pass, you can see Pete at the next ford.
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3-all fords were wet this trip
4-Lunch stop
4+ The panorama at the lunch stop
5- My Transalp down in the snow, i thought it would have happened earlier.
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a good picture quality 12mb Quicktime Video clip of the highlights
It's 2minutes 30seconds long, full of fords and bikes sliding about in the snow.
6-Pete heading over to the deep part of the ford for a look. That's as far as we went.
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