Phelix Creek Hut & area

July 2nd 2010


Description

meet at St Davids Church Parking lot 7 am Friday July 2nd. Get to the Waddington hut that day.
Hiking 7 scrambling in the general vicinity on Saturday. Exit & drive home on Sunday
There are a number of excellent scrambling routes on all the peaks:

South ridge of Mt. Gandalf from Phelix – Sockeye col (easy scramble), and continue along the ridge to Mt. Aragorn
SW face of Mt. Shadowfax (easy scramble across ledges)
NW ridge of Mt. Shadowfax (class 3-4)
E ridge of Mt. Aragorn (class 3, very exposed)
NE ridge of Peregrine (mostly Class 2, one half pitch of Class 4-5 near summit avoidable on left)
W ridge of Peregrine (mostly a ridge walk with a few easy scrambling moves. The full traverse of the ridge from the Phelix – Sockeye col is recommended, or take a shorter variation from the col halfway along this ridge).

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