Copland Valley

A long beautiful valley on the West Coast. There is a track that goes all the way to a basin below the Copland Pass at the head of the valley.

Where	Track	Time	Total
Road to start of Welcome flat	Good track	7 hours
To basin under Copland pass (1400m)	Good track, but overgrown in parts	7 hours	14 hours
To Copland Pass	Scree, snow, and steep rock	3 hours	17 hours
Return		15 hours	32 hours
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Below Castle Rock Hut

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Track	Waterfall	Rata	Ruera	Rocks

Up valley	Welcome Flat	Scott creek	Valley head	Side stream

Above Castle Rock Hut


Copland pass	Across river	Camp	Down valley

Sefton massif	Banks range	Banks range	Copland pass

Except after heavy rain, it used to be possible to rock-hop all the streams on the way to Welcome Flat Hut, but DOC destroyed the tracks that made this possible. They should be restored.