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Pukaki boulders

Location

Accessto this walk is along the Aoraki/Mt Cook highway approximately 5 km from the SH 8 turnoff.

Description

This short track is on the Lake Pukaki side of the highway and leads up to the Pukaki boulders. These boulders (called erratics) were deposited by glaciers that dominated the area between 12,000 and 200,000 years ago.
Tibetan prayer flags and a small plaque placed here are a memorial to several guides from the local climbing fraternity. The boulders are popular with rock climbers and mountaineers driven away from Aoraki/Mt Cook National Park by bad weather.
The climate in the Mackenzie Basin is traditionally very hot in summer and extremely cold in winter.

Duration

0.1 hours

Level

Easy

Amenities

• Historical

Source

www.doc.govt.nz

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