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Matukituki River
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West Matukituki Valley
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Matukituki Valley, Mount Aspiring National Park
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Climbing out of the West Matukituki Valley on the Cascade Saddle route
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Everyone feels excited about this hike and the perfect conditions
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The climb starts from the valley floor at 470m and goes steeply up to an 1835m ridge
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Head of the West Matukituki Valley
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Up,up,up...
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Mount Aspiring with Bonar Glacier below
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Peaks and glaciers around the Dart Glacier
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View to the Dart Glacier (bottom) and Pench Glacier (top)
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Raoulia grandiflora (Asteraceae)- Cascade Saddle, Mt Aspiring National Park
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Hectorella caespitosa - Cascade Saddle, Mt Aspiring National Park
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Leucogenes grandiceps, South Island edelweiss
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Donatia novae-zelandiae
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Phyllachne colensoi - Rock cushion
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View from Cascade Saddle to Mt Aspiring, Mt Avalanche and Rob Roy Peak- Mount Aspiring National Park, New Zealand
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Dart Glacier
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View from Cascade Saddle to Mt Aspiring, Mt Avalanche and Rob Roy Peak
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View from Cascade Saddle down the West Maukituki Valley
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Epilobium pernitens- Willowherb
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Dart Glacier, Mt Aspiring National Park, New Zealand
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The Dart Valley with the lower part of the glacier covered in scree
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Dart Glacier crevasses
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Dart Glacier seen from the ridge of its lateral moraine
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The Dart Glacier once filled this valley up to where I am standing on the ridge of the lateral moraine
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Dart Glacier terminus
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Looking up the Dart Glacier
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Terminus of the Dart Glacier on the left
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A succession of terminal moraines of the receding Dart Glacier
