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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Feb 10, 2015 - 02:41pm PT
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That looks like a gorgeous place to go hiking, Avery. Thanks for posting the pics!
Do they get flash floods through there?
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Avery
climber
NZ
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 10, 2015 - 02:48pm PT
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Hi phylp,
Nice to hear from you.
Yeah, they do get floods from time to time. Thankfully, no one has drowned, as far as I know. It would certainly get pretty ugly in there after a quick dump of rain.
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Avery
climber
NZ
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 10, 2015 - 02:50pm PT
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Avery
climber
NZ
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 10, 2015 - 09:06pm PT
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Avery
climber
NZ
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 11, 2015 - 11:57am PT
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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Feb 11, 2015 - 12:15pm PT
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Any climbing routes up those cliffs?
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L
climber
California dreamin' on the farside of the world..
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Feb 11, 2015 - 01:57pm PT
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Hi Avery,
Looks like we're staying on the North Island this trip due to limited travel window and just so darn much to see there. However, it also looks like the kid we're visiting is staying in NZ for the next couple of years, so the South Island (and Sawcut Gorge in particular) will be on our tick-list.
Thanks again for the awesome guidebook. "Keas are nice but naughty. Watch your gear." is now my new motto. :-)
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 11, 2015 - 02:05pm PT
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L, Avery works for the NZ Tourism Board.
Keas are evil, period. What kind of bird eats your windshield (windscreen to him) seal? ;-)
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Avery
climber
NZ
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 11, 2015 - 04:43pm PT
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Hi limpingcrab,
Sorry, no climbing routes exist, as far as I know.
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Avery
climber
NZ
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 11, 2015 - 04:45pm PT
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Avery
climber
NZ
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 11, 2015 - 09:20pm PT
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Avery
climber
NZ
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 12, 2015 - 05:04pm PT
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Feb 12, 2015 - 09:41pm PT
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Wow, those passages are cool!
I personally don't need every place that has a cliff to have climbing. The Gorge looks like a perfect place to just walk, and be.
Thanks again Avery. I appreciate the quality content.
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Avery
climber
NZ
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 13, 2015 - 12:39pm PT
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Avery
climber
NZ
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 14, 2015 - 02:42am PT
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Avery
climber
NZ
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 14, 2015 - 01:32pm PT
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Feb 14, 2015 - 06:13pm PT
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This is a photo from an up- and downriver unsupported kayak trip that three friends and I did in the Canadian arctic in '83. It's the Babbage River. The maps were sh#t, and much to our surprise the river would disappear underground from time to time. The canyon in the background of my much thinner self was actually never completely covered over, but Sawcut Gorge would have been a great name. Looking up past me, the plane below the cut-bank was filled with aufeis, which again necessitated portaging.
This is our Austrian team member at the upriver entrance to the canyon.
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Avery
climber
NZ
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 14, 2015 - 10:28pm PT
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Thanks Darwin,
The vegetation may be different but the gorge in your pic looks similar to the Sawcut, although I suspect, some what longer! The sheer size of North America is a daunting prospect for someone who is use to short distances (like me). It only takes 90 minutes walk to reach the Sawcut. If you have some more pics of the area feel free to post them.
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Avery
climber
NZ
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 15, 2015 - 12:49pm PT
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Feb 16, 2015 - 08:43am PT
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Thanks: I did just find the scan that your photos brought to mind.
W.R.T vegetation: We were in the hight arctic, 68 deg North just off the Beaufort Sea, so even though it was pretty mild mid summer, I could always feel that two months in the future the weather was going to hell in a hand basket. We passed through two limestone ridges while we headed up the Babbage. We could first tell that we were coming into a limestone band because the river flora would change. The rocks would get much much slicker due to the growth of different algae. It was actually a real pain as we lined upriver.
Below: another photo of our "sawcut" canyon.
Below: one of the springs from which the river emerged. It was here that we finally gave up on the Babbage and took off portaging across miles of tundra to find the upper waters of the Old Crow River (called something else there).
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