Waiopehu Hut 15-16 August

A weekend tramp to Waiopehu Hut. Saturday - Up the Waiopehu Track to the hut. Sunday - Up to Richards Knob and back down the Gable End Track.
Saturday, 15 August 2015
Start of the Waiopehu track
Lunch stop
The old hut site
Some idiot decided to paint the tree pink (hmm it may kill the tree!!)
Almost there (hut center photo)
Waiopehu hut
Susan and Kane trying to stay warm inside the second coldest hut in the Tararuas
John and Susan ready for the walk out
Climbing up Waiopehu
Lake Horowhenua
Paddy
Ralph Wood who died in 1936 aged 29 (caught in a storm and died on Twin Peak from exposure and exhaustion)
Kohen and Monsta
DW
At Richard's Knob crossroad
Back across the farmland to the cars