Life though my lens

By LauraJaneFyfe

Treble Cone

Stuart and I set out by driving west out of Wanaka to see what we could explore. We passed the western edge of lake Wanaka, with its deep blue water before heading further into the tussock covered golden-green hills of central Otago. As we reached the turn off for Treble Cone ski centre we saw a large black shadow fly over the car. We pulled over into the entrance road to the ski centre and saw around 5 paragliders circling down in wide sweeping circles to land. The support crew saw us watching the paragliders and came over to chat to us. They said that they used the road up to the ski centre to get the paragliders to the top of the mountain before they jumped off, descending over 800m to the valley floor below. Stuart and I were sorely tempted to give it a go but sadly funds wouldn't allow it, but the crew told us that the road up to the ski centre was open and if we wanted we could go have a look around. We took the opportunity and took the winding switchback road to the top of Treble Cone where there was a car park and a closed ski centre. We decided to walk up one of the unused ski tracks to a ski hut around 600m further up the mountain. The views from the top were stunning, with views over lake Wanaka, the Otago plains and in the distance the glacier covered Mount Aspiring. After enjoying the view we headed back down to the camper and drove back down the long winding road. At the bottom we decided to go and see if we could get better views of Mount Aspiring and the Rob Roy glacier. The gravel track to the glacier was very bumpy, limiting our speed to a maximum of 20km/h meaning a long slow slog. The road took us through numerous farms filled with sheep, cattle and deer with the glacier blue river never to far. The road finally reached a point where you had to ford a stream to get to the next section of road so we decided to end our journey there, though the views of the glacier and Mount Aspiring national park were stunning. 

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