08 Aug Lewis Hills – Red Rocky Gulch
16 km – Unmarked
To start you have to get to the head of the serpentine like, the easiest way through a logging road (formerly loggers school road, now from the Bay of Islands.)
It’s a fun 8 km trip out, especially if you include Wheeler’s peak, which borders Wheeler’s gulch, and Red Rocky gulch. Red Rocky, as it name entails is quite rocky (and the usual way people descend out of the Lewis Hills), full of peridotite boulders and rocks, making the descent somewhat more tricky than the climb up.
The trek gives you beautiful views of the Lewis Hills and Serpentine Valley…. I undertook this a little late in the year, which made the river crossings a little cold, but worth it!
Serpentine Lake
Wheelers Peak, & Wheelers Gulch to the left.
Views from the climb of Wheelers Peak – Serpentine Lake and Blow-Me-Down’s (Simms Gulch) in the background
Red Rocky Gulch
Wheeler’s Gulch
Views on the climb of Wheeler’s Peak – Serpentine Lake and Blow-Me-Down’s (Simms Gulch)
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