“Sidling”. What’s sidling I hear you say? Sounds rather pleasant…
“He sidled up to me and asked for a tenner”, a ‘cheeky wander’ perhaps…?
Nope! It’s effing hard work that’s what! :) When you see ‘sidle’, in future, read ‘Indiana Jones shimmying along a precipice with his back to the wall’. It’s not that relaxing let’s say, technical underfoot, and it’s heck of a slow progress! :) Basically it’s a thin path cut into the slope of a steep valley. And not necessarily a flat path either. ‘Undulating sidling’ now that’s my personal favourite. There was a ‘junior intro’ to sidling this morning ( a minor annoyance ). We were in for the ‘pro course’ later in the section!
What looked like a pleasant stroll around the lake on the map was quite a full-on section of Mt. Rintoul standards. We are not very fast on the Tricky bits.. It took us well over an hour to do about half a mile round this lake, starting to look like Waiau Pass will have to wait Until tomorrow.
Steep sidling. My favorite! ;) Haha. Getting used to it now. This Indiana Jones stuff is easy! ;) … “Cookie, where did we put that crystal skull again?”
The route down the Timaru River was very reminiscent of the 
