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With snow settling on the mountains, then brisk temperature of this magic winters day meant fire was essential once the pack down began. Below: Harry heads down to the river as dawn light slowly reveals the extent of the overnight snow high in the mountain ranges surrounding us. to portage while 3 returned upstream and dropped into the Greenstone Hut Gorge. Overnight the rain had been insistent and unrelenting leading to huge flows in the morning. Dropping into the gorge we were greeted with 3km of stonking big water class 4. The scene was set with a burley swim as a boil threw one of our pack-rafts upside-down. A quick rescue and gear recovery as we continued downstream slowly working our way through some epic rapids. Huge waves, long fun rapids and tonnes of fist pumps had the 3 of us stoked as we re-joined the crew downstream. From here the boogie water between the gorges was getting fluffy and fun. Huge waves with the river flowing at a rough guess close to 80-100 cumecs. We were moving fast now, as the river descended further to Slips Flat and the Third Gorge. Again, we were met with continuous white-water, boils, huge wave chains and tonnes of laughs as we all fell into the river. Fortunately, all the swims were quick and easy. Regrouping with the entire team for a quick lunch before we all jumped on and paddled together for the final kilometres through the epic last gorge. From here it was a couple of kilometres to the confluence with the Caples River, but the whitewater was unrelenting. Huge waves, some brutal and challenging ferries made for an eventful last couple of kilometres. The Caples River added more juice to an already juicy river and after a few more swims we found ourselves at the takeout all stoked on an epic mission. If you’re into pack rafting this is a must do, but before heading out check out the DOC webpage for alerts about the track and huts and be sure to check the flows before heading into the Greenstone. For more information touch base with Huw @ Queenstown Pack Rafting. 64//WHERE ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS/#228
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