Key Summit - Near The Top

The panorama I posted on January 8 of the view near Key Summit was taken while standing on top of this marker.

If you click on the image to view the larger version you may be able to read some of the text. In the image Florence is copying down the text in her journal, so maybe she will share it with us here. From her perspective, left to right, it lists the Earl Mountains, Darran Mountains, Humboldt Mountains and Ailsa Mountains (listed as "Alisa Mountains" on at least two maps that I saw--not spelled the same but close enough to make Elissa happy).

Apparently Key Summit is actually in the Ailsa Mountains because on the marker below the Ailsa Mountains it states "Key Summit, 3,046', a point from which rivers flow to three coasts: to the south coast via the Eglinton River to Tuatapere; to the west coast via the Hollyford River to Martins Bay; to the east coast via the Greenstone River and Lake Wakatipu to Balcluthia." Oddly enough, that evening we would follow the flow to the west coast part way down the Hollyford Valley and sleep alongside the Hollyford River, the following two days we would follow the flow to the south coast all the way to Tuatapere, and two days after that we would cross the flow to the east coast at Balcluthia.