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Clutha Terminator Expedition: 6. The Roxburgh Gorge
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Alps to Pacific Expedition. 3Farewell The Cromwell Gap. 6 The Roxburgh Gorge. The next morning, drifting down onto the Roxburgh reservoir, there was still an appreciable current. We were at once isolated among towering canyon walls, sun-parched and barren. Wild thyme smothered the rock-tumbled faces. Drifting down "Lake" Roxburgh. Remnants of a stacked-stone miner's cottage. Evening found us preparing a hot meal in a large bivouac beside a rock-face. Roxburgh camp in the rain. The rain continued until mi...
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Clutha Terminator Expedition: 5. The Clyde Dam
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Alps to Pacific Expedition. 3Farewell The Cromwell Gap. 5 The Clyde Dam. Later, at the end of the gorge, the Clyde dam loomed skyward – mammoth, monolithic. Clyde dam, from upstream before the inundation. Approaching the dam, and the diversion channel (right). In the 1980s, the then National government's 'Think Big' agenda brought massive upheaval as plans for New Zealand's largest concrete gravity dam moved ahead, despite widespread protest. Threatened landowners went to the High Court in 1982, winning ...
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Clutha Terminator Expedition: 7. The Pacific Ocean
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Alps to Pacific Expedition. 3Farewell The Cromwell Gap. 7 The Pacific Ocean. Massive tree-limbs stranded some twenty-metres above the water across the head of Dumbarton Rock provided a humbling reminder of the river’s power. Tree-limbs stranded on Dumbarton Rock. Setting out again, we rafted through the remote Beaumont Gorge, intending to make camp at Beaumont. Mist was on the river as we emerged from our frost-covered camp near the Beaumont Bridge. Morning mist at Beaumont. In the distance, exotic pine ...
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Clutha Terminator Expedition: 4. The Terminator
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Alps to Pacific Expedition. 3Farewell The Cromwell Gap. The Cromwell Gorge now became a scene of destruction upheaval. In the rush to re-shape and try to stabilize this towering, rock-studded landscape, little had survived. The river, too, had changed. Ahead, lay “The Terminator” - a Grade 6. The river slowed, pooling, stalling. Downriver ahead we still couldn’t see the rapid, but the din of the pounding torrent reached toward us with ever-increasing intensity. White wall … impact! I presently leapt aboa...
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Clutha Terminator Expedition: 3. Farewell The Cromwell Gap
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Alps to Pacific Expedition. 3Farewell The Cromwell Gap. 3 Farewell The Cromwell Gap. Approaching the new Deadman's Point Bridge. The current quickened as we descended into the well-known Grade 3-4 constriction rapid simply called the Cromwell Gap. We charged down this sweeping, classic whitewater, enjoying it immensely and finally exiting under the old Cromwell Bridge. This 1868 landmark structure, at the junction of the Upper Clutha and Kawarau Rivers, served for over a hundred and twenty years.
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Clutha Terminator Expedition: 2. The Lowburn Wasteland
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Alps to Pacific Expedition. 3Farewell The Cromwell Gap. 2 The Lowburn Wasteland. Further downriver at Sandy Point we saw no trace of the settlement of that name which once rivalled Wanaka and Albert Town. In the great flood of 1878, when the river rose several metres overnight, the small ferry-town was swept into oblivion. After fifty kilometres the river narrowed as we entered rocky Maori Gorge through a circulating rapid called “Smokin’ Joe’s”. Entering "Smokin' Joe's", Maori Gorge. We landed at Lowbur...
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Clutha Terminator Expedition: 1. Departing Lake Wanaka
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Alps to Pacific Expedition. 3Farewell The Cromwell Gap. 1 Departing Lake Wanaka. Our Avon inflatable raft was well-loaded on the early February morning when our team of five set off from the Lake Wanaka outlet. From this scenic, alpine landscape the Clutha begins its arduous 338km journey to the Pacific – our distant destination. Domo: Stevenson, Lewis: Verduyn-Cassels, Mark: Samways, Chris: Riley, Noel: Williams . Chalmer's Reach, looking back toward the Southern Alps. The log-raftsmen of yesteryear lef...
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Clutha Terminator Expedition: Clutha "Terminator" Expedition, 1992
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Alps to Pacific Expedition. 3Farewell The Cromwell Gap. Clutha "Terminator" Expedition, 1992. 169; Clutha Terminator Expedition.
