It was a good night in the shelter. When we woke up it was still cloudy but not that wet like before. We started our hike at around 8.30am. It was an easy tramping track. But still we weren’t really faster than the times in the DOC signs. At noon we reached the Cannibal Gorge […]
We enjoyed to be in town and this time we weren’t so happy to be back on the trail. There was so much more we could do. Apply for more jobs, think about the car we’ll buy after the trail. We stayed quite long at the Holiday Park. We met a Scottish NOBO couple and […]
We met some messy Kiwis in the hut and had a sunny day while hiking to civilization. It wasn’t a good night at all. The tramping party, that shared the food with everybody else in the hut, stayed in our room. And guess what! One of them snored. And it wasn’t only the snoring: She […]
Today we had rain nearly the complete day, instead of making breaks, we walked a bunch of kilometers. It was a good decision to be in the hot springs yesterday night. When we woke up, there were sandflies everywhere and it also rained in the night. We were afraid of opening the tent, so we […]
Sewing shoes and some river crossings. We took it easy today. We had breakfast after a peaceful night in the Kiwi Hut. There was no mouse, at least we didn’t hear one. I sewed my socks. Because all the stuff for sewing was already out of the backpack, I started to sew the holes in […]
It rained a lot today. It was so bad that no one wanted to give us a ride to Arthur’s Pass. We were standing for two hours on the roadside trying to hitchhike. We were prepared for standing quite a while at the road. So we put on everything we had. Luckily the wind was […]
It rained quite a lot last night. Because of the footprint we put under the tent, the inner tent stayed quite dry. The rain didn’t stop until now. So we had our breakfast inside the tent and waited for the rain to stop. It stopped raining at about 11am. We put on our wet clothes […]
The day started so good. We slept in and at least my night was even better than last night. Slept in – woke up. Just as easy as this. We planned to hitchhike to the trail today but we got somewhere else. Back to the morning ?. We wrote some postcards and had a look […]
Luckily it didn’t rain the night so our tent was dry. We had some oats at the carpark but there was no car arriving or leaving at all… So we decided to walk to the next bigger road. On the way to the intersection we saw one car going to the carpark and it returned […]
We started to walk to the Manuka Hut. We arrived there after two hours of hiking. We had a longer break there and decided than to go off trail. In the hut was a Wilderness magazine which had a map of the Mt. Taylor region. The trail description of the Mt. Somers track sounded much […]
There was not much to do today. We believed that the river is still too flooded to cross it. We spent the day reading some books and eating even more than normal. We washed our socks at some point because they started to smell really bad. We noticed no change in the height of the […]
We weren’t really camping at the Royal hut. Between the hut and us was a stream that we had to cross. So it was refreshing to start the hike with cold and wet feet. We passed the Royal hut and continued to Stone Hut. The sign said it takes about two hours so we thought […]