Mesopotamia - Gravel Bashing up Forest Creek

I had been excited about visiting Mesopotamia and Te Kahui Kaupeka Conservation Park for a while now and the long weekend had given us the perfect opportunity. This area has an amazing feeling of space and from the Rangitata River you can see forever.




We had intended to tramp Bush Stream and head in to Crooked Spur Hut, but after six fully assisted river crossings, the seventh was too much so we spent a somewhat dispiriting two hours walking back the same way.

So we decided to walk in the Forest Creek end, which is where we had intended to finish the tramp. This is a long boring gravel bash and it was already 7:00pm before we found a suitable campsite.

Time was against us now as we needed an early Sunday finish, but I managed to make it up to Bullock Bow Saddle and then Point 2030.

We camped back near Forest Creek again at the beginning of the track up to Felt Hut. Sunday was back out down the gravel, much quicker than on our inward leg.