It was -2.2 degrees when we started the walk up Mount Iron, there was a frost but the southerly forecast for yesterday had passed by.
If Rob Roy (7 posts back) gets my vote for the best day walk in the world, Mount Iron, on the outskirts of Wanaka, is my pick for the best short walk.
We go up the back which starts with a 10 minute walk on the flat, then about 20 minutes steep climb up 250 metres.
The DOC guide says it’s a 1.5 hour walk but that must be at a fairly leisurely pace.
My best time from the carpark to the top is 28 minutes & 2 seconds and it’s about 20 minutes down; my slowest time to the top in the last couple of years was 34 minutes. To put that in perspective some people run up & down in under 30 minutes.
But however fast you go the view from the top is worth it:
Homepaddock 
Feel for the East Coast for Sunday then, It really was “snow down to 200 metres”, snow on the ground in places it occurs quite rarely, and with a wind chill taking to probably around -8 or so on the hills. Brrr.
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