Thursday 12th March 2015: After completing our Banks Peninsula walk we rejoined Neil Taylor and headed for Birch Hill Lodge via Christchurch to pick up supplies. We were joined by Verne Barrell for this section of our trip.

The "team" shown below left, from left to right, was Neil Taylor, Graham Thompson, Verne Barrell, Ian Bardsley, John Barrell, Cathy Thompson (back), Alan Rogers and Keith Blayney.

The next morning a group were driven to Glen Tui and headed up the Richardson Track to Mt Richardson (1047m), to return down the Blowhard Track back to Birch Hill Lodge, while others did less energetic activities around Oxford.