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One week in November

• 05 Sep 2008

A 12-person City Care team under Brian Keown, and with Tom Adams acting as a 2nd unit supervisor took just five days to put in the Tekapo - Twizel trail last November.

They brought in the trucks and machinery.	They put up finger signs in Tekapo
...and Twizel	The team set up the serious destination signage at the Tekapo end.
Marked the route along the canal...	And with chevron arrows marked any change in direction - that's Aoraki at the back.
And that's Aoraki again - the trail comes down beside these penstock pipes at the Pukaki Power Station.	Along Lake Pukaki sometimes using old 4WD tracks.
To the Pukaki Dam, where the team metalled a 1 km road section.	South of the lake, the track rises up and the views are great
The gang solved the cross-country sections in their own way - with warratahs (in the distance) and stones.	Getting closer to Twizel.
Then preparing a path between Pukaki Flats and Twizel itself.	... metalling it ...
... and compacting the metal ...	... and building any bridge that's needed ...
Here's the pre-apprentice group that did a lot of the work.	And here's the whole team. A heartfelt thanks from Te Araroa Trust for this first, and speedy, construction of a TA trail in the south. Gang, you did good.