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road to milford sound closed for up to two weeks

PostPosted: Wed 22 May, 2013 6:10 pm
by wayno
only transport in and out of milford sound will be by air if anyones planning to do the milford track....

http://www.odt.co.nz/news/queenstown-la ... kfall-risk

Re: road to milford sound closed for up to two weeks

PostPosted: Wed 22 May, 2013 6:33 pm
by matagi
I have flown in and out of Milford sound. It's very bouncy going over the peaks in a light plane - I think I'd be waiting for the road to open.

Re: road to milford sound closed for up to two weeks

PostPosted: Wed 22 May, 2013 6:41 pm
by wayno
and its one hell of an expensive flight....

Re: road to milford sound closed for up to two weeks

PostPosted: Wed 22 May, 2013 8:11 pm
by forest
Oh darn people will have to walk the Route burn Track instead..... such a terrible alternative at that :D
Sounds like a decent chunk of rock.

Re: road to milford sound closed for up to two weeks

PostPosted: Thu 23 May, 2013 12:29 pm
by wayno
technically you can climb out. the shortest route is to go up the grave talbot route up the gulliver river up to the grave talbot pass. then grovel along the knife edge ridge , over mt mcperhson and down to homer saddle. and down to the road.

http://www.topomap.co.nz/NZTopoMap?v=2& ... 56575&z=14

Re: road to milford sound closed for up to two weeks

PostPosted: Thu 23 May, 2013 3:55 pm
by wander
Damm you NZders have nice digi maps

Re: road to milford sound closed for up to two weeks

PostPosted: Thu 23 May, 2013 3:58 pm
by wayno
NZ's only a 50,000 scale map. quarter of the quality of the aussie 25,000 scale ones