Thread: Copeland Valley - First Thar and/or Chamios Trip

Back when I was but a mere boy... about 1978... before it became a "Hotspot to visit (intentional Pun there) with a flash hut... a couple of us did a mid winter trip up there on a full moon weekend... the snow level was much lower than Welcome flats and fresh.

Sitting in the pools that cloudless crystal clear night as the full moon came over the mountains... was somewhat of an experience.... I recall the wekas and other small wild life getting close to the pools for warmth...

The next day we bolted back toward the road before sun up, at a good sweaty pace, in the heavy frost, in typical attire ...boots shorts and old scratchy woollen singlet and met an American couple dressed to the hilt coming up the valley... his were the first words... "you must be kiwis"....To this day I cannot figure out how he knew?