View into Mesopotamia from Coal Hill. Photo: Pat Barrett

Coal Hill Track, Mt Peel Conservation Area

August 2018

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A sunrise climb

Dawn was calling. Not unusual perhaps, except that this dawn was a rendezvous I had made with the summit of a minor foothill in South Canterbury – and I was late. Coal Hill, 1617m, stands on the south bank of the Rangitata River, not far north of a well known landmark, the often-climbed Little Mt […]
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