Photos of the New Zealand Lakes and Mountains - J.S. Milne

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Nelson Mountains • Walks near Golden Bay • Motueka River Valley • Nelson Lakes Rakiura (Stewart Island) • Various.		Chronologically • 2004/2005 • 2005/2006 • 2006/2007 • 2007/2008 • 2008/2009 • 2009/2010 • 2010/2011 • 2011/2012 • 2012/2013 • 2013/2014 • 2014/2015 • 2015/2016 • 2016/2017 • 2017/2018 • 2018/2019 • 2019/2020 • 2020/2021 • 2021/2022	Fork Hut, Huxley
West Coast/Haast • Walks • Brewster Hut and Mt. Armstrong • Copland Valley • Mount Fox • Mataketake Tops	Kea on Mt Fox	Canterbury Mountains • Arthur's Pass • Aoraki/Mt Cook • Huxley Valley • Mount Somers • Temple Stream	Footstool in winter
Wakatipu area • Day Tramps Mount Alfred; Sugar Loaf Peak; Scott Creek; Glacier Burn; Kea Basin; Lake Rere; ... • Multi-day Tramps Dart-Rees; Earnslaw Burn; Steele Creek; Cascade Saddle; Five Pass; Lake Nerine; Theatre Flat; Route Burn; Caples; ...	Lake Unknown	Wanaka area • Matukituki: East Branch Glacier Burn; Junction Flat; Aspiring Flat; Mount Sisyphus; Ruth Flat; Rabbit Pass. • Matukituki: West Branch Rob Roy Valley; Aspiring Hut; Pearl Flat; Valley head; Liverpool Bivvy; French Ridge Hut; Cascade Saddle.	Kitchener
Fiordland • Day Tramps • Earl Mountains • Hump Ridge • Kepler Mountains • L. Monowai • Green Lake • Moraine Creek • Milford Track • Mt Titiroa	Ngatimamoe Peak	Kayaking • Diamond Lake • Dredge Lake • Green Lake • Lake Adelaide • Lake Hauroko • Lake McKerrow • Lake Manapouri • Lake Monowai • Lake Te Anau • Lake Wakatipu • West Coast	Head of Wakatipu

Follow animal trails through the bluffs. Moir's Guide Book

In New Zealand, move left (not right!) to avoid oncoming traffic.
Blue text and thumbnails are links.

I find nature very beautiful. I don't like just to go and have a look at a scene. If you really want to enjoy the view from a mountain, you have to climb it on foot. To see nature, you have to walk. ... in order to take pleasure in nature ... you have to do some work.
-- Pierre Deligne

Viewing mountains from a helicopter is like viewing the Louvre from a motor scooter --- you glimpse just enough to know what you have missed, while damaging the experience for everyone else.

Noise from sightseeing helicopters is an increasing problem everywhere. For example, when New York City spent $2,000,000,000 constructing riverside parks and isolating them from traffic noise, it found that the parks were plagued by a constant stream of low-flying tourist helicopters. Denali is the most wilderness-like national park in North America, but nowhere in the park is it possible to expect quiet. Where once tourists rented cars to view celebrity homes, they now rent helicopters to hover low over them. The problem is that no one has to pay for noise pollution. As every economist will tell you, that inevitably leads to more noise pollution (in the absence of ethical standards).

The choppers that ate New York "it's just this idea that thousands of New Yorkers can be disrupted so that five tourists can take a shoe selfie over the Empire State Building."

DOC sign on the Alex Knob/Lake Wombat track, Franz Jozef.
! YOU WILL HEAR HELICOPTERS ON THIS WALK
This track passes directly under the flight paths of helicopters taking people onto the glacier.
Right now [because of global warming] helicopters are the only safe way to get people onto the glacier for guided walks.
There will be quiet times. Natural sights, sounds, and amazing views dominate.
Enjoy your walk [and remember your ear protectors].