Lake Sumner

Neschacker Hill under my wing, tracking north towards the Doubtful Range

Doubtful Range

View towards the Libretto Range (left), Hanmer Range in the far distance

I just topped up at Garnet Peak and continuing north again

Above the Libretto Range

On the way back from the Libretto Range on a south-west track towards Mt Emerson, Glynn Wye Range and Organ Range on the other side of the valley

Back at Taylor and Sheppard but now to the west of them

Mt White, looking towards the Pukis, notice the difference in cloudbase

Looking straight towards Springfield hidden below a layer of low (relative) cloud

Once more the Pukis

Easterly rolling in

Now I quickly need to lose quite a bit of height and dive under those clouds starting near the Waimak Gorge

Torlesse to my right, covered in low cloud, on this side that is

The Waimak

Looking back towards the northern end of Little Sisters

I’m north of The Sisters here, tracking northwest towards The Brothers Range

Note to self, you can land a glider here

The Hurunui River, so far the track I hiked could have been done by car

Here I crossed a paddock that could not be done by car but I assume a car could drive around it

I now have The Brothers to my left and there’s a road again so it must indeed connect to what I was on before

The Hurunui River again, it’s beautiful here, Mt Longfellow in front of me, often a turnpoint for me when I’m out gliding

Almost at Lake Sumner, so it is indeed possible to get to Lake Sumner by car!

Lake Sumner, looking west

Me, enjoying a break

And then my camera battery died so I had to take the remaining photos with my phone, which means crappy quality. This is how far I walked along the shore of the lake, now heading back again, it’s not going fast on this surface

Back on the grasland again, that’s a lot faster, Little Sisters in the background, that’s what I’m heading for

I didn’t cross the paddock again but took a detour following the obvious car tracks to make absolutely sure a car could get there, and it could but there were some fields with cows that would need to be traversed. This is looking back to where I cam from, the lake is just behind that dark mountain on the far left

Between The Sisters and Little Sisters again, and so are the sheep

Oronoko Range ahead of me

Almost back at the car, just this Sisters Stream left to cross

The track I hiked, it’s that black dashed line that starts at the road south of Little Sisters and goes between Little Sisters and The Sisters and then towards the southern shore of the lake, the hike was 21 km and took me 5.5 hours including rest