
Franz Josef Glacier Valley Track
The print
Printed to order at 300 DPI, rendered natively at your size and never upscaled. Print only; the frame in the photos is for scale.
Shipping & returns
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About the Franz Josef Glacier Valley Track trail
Franz Josef Glacier Valley Track is a 1.7-mile point-to-point route in Westland Tai Poutini National Park, climbing 422 feet between 719 and 975 feet above sea level. The steepest pitch reaches 22 percent, against an average of 248 feet of gain per mile. On our gain-and-distance scale it falls in the easiest band. The nearest town is Waikowhai, 14 miles away.
The trail
The Franz Josef Glacier (Māori: Kā Roimata o Hine Hukatere; officially Franz Josef Glacier / Kā Roimata o Hine Hukatere) is a 12-kilometre-long (7.5 mi) temperate maritime glacier in Westland Tai Poutini National Park on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island. Together with the Fox Glacier 20 kilometres (12 mi) to the south, and a third glacier, it descends from the Southern Alps to less than 300 metres (980 ft) above sea level.
Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Along the route
- Defiance Hutmi 0.0
- Sentinel Rockmi 0.2
- River and glacier viewpointmi 0.4
Places OpenStreetMap maps within 150 m of the route.
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Place names along the route: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Best months are an estimate from NASA POWER climate data (CC BY 4.0), 2001 to 2020 monthly averages adjusted to the trail's elevation, not an official season; check current conditions and closures.