Mount Obi
14 May 2017
Six of us met in town on a fine Sunday morning all looking for a good day out. We picked up one more in Herbert on the way and meet another two in Palmerston. The nine of us then headed into the Pigroot to park in the rest area by the Pigroot creek bridge. It was then on with the day packs and up the creek for about 2km till we came to a 4WD track and our first 600m climb. We then zig-zagged our way up this track for about 1 and half hours to point 1125m on the map. We then headed along the tops in a easterly direction with a we bit of up and down till the track climbed up about 200m to meet the main track that comes up from Shingly Creek Rd. It was then the final climb of about 150m to the top of Obi, getting there about 12.15pm. Lunch was had by the communication tower building getting out of the cold breeze. We had 360 degree views along the coast, up the Pigroot, all the peaks of Kakanui Mountains through to Mt Cook and Tasman. After lunch we headed back down the main track for about 3km till we came to a junction in the track. We turned right and took the track and headed in a westerly direction slowly descending back down to meet up with Siberia Creek. It was then down Siberia Creek pushing our way through a bit of scrub till it opened back out to flat paddocks and soon we were back at the vehicles.
Thanks to Bron, Phyllis, Maurice, John, Rodney, Helen and our newbie’s Jim and Carolynfor their company for the day.
I would also like to thank the Farmers for giving us access to their land to do this trip.
Neville
