Just as a matter of interest I had a wee look at the GPS track and checked out the elevations we climbed to when visiting the dams. We didn't really get up that high - maybe that fog made it look like we were mountain climbing.
With a bit of mucking around I managed to work out roughly where the dams are and as you can see the picture shows both our trip in and out giving a rough mirror image.
Oh, and lookee what I found on NZ Topo Maps:
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Incidentally the summit of Whariti is at 920m and we managed to climb to 217m according to the GPS - I wonder how windy it was at the top!
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Cool. It is neat to see the map and gps track and see that the dams are pretty close to the same in elevation. I would have thought you were doing a lot more climbing too.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I had thought that we did a bit of climbing too. I guess we did about the same amount of descending...
DeleteI think it's also easier to determine climbing from descending on the videos too.