Upper Tui Canyon

The weather was still terrible in the divide, but sweet on the foothills. We'd wondered if there was any canyon above the section that we'd found, so had a good excuse for a short extra scouting mission.

Toine and I walked further upstream above the first bridge and scrambled down a side creek to enter Glentui stream. Here it was very small and very un-canyon like. However about five minutes below the bridge, it began to get promising. To our delight, a small drop with small (2-3m) gorge walls had us stopping to put on wetsuits. We slid and jumped this 3 meter fall and hoped there would be a few more obstacles.The stream was slightly canyoniferous but within 5 minutes we'd arrived at the normal start to the trip.

It was good fun descending the rest of the canyon again, finding a few new places to jump from and slide. Toine suggested one slide that looked rather tenuous to me, but he rapped, checked and jugged the drop before announcing 'lets do it!'. Toine slid the drop and the smile on his face told me it was all good... After my turn, he tried to slide another way, managing to smash into one of the rock walls and leave a 'shunt' imprint on his hip! (Ouch).

Still a great canyon, but still only a short one..

The 'new' slide

On R1

Toine checks out the pool depth