Brrrrrr another chilly one first thing! That’d wake you up. We had a choice to make today. And it was to follow the old Te Araroa route down the middle of the river, or, to nail it up the hill to Stody’s Hut and over Breast Hill ( er, Mountain! ) through a new section of trail just opened. The trail notes didn’t seem to match Cookie’s route, or the official route, and we couldn’t find any sign of the huts on the Topo map… With rain imminent and a ‘difficult decent’ supposedly to come, we thought sliding on wet scree down a mountain face might be less preferable to wading down an icy river ;) Probably. And anyway, the river looked a faster route to motels and beer. “Let’s swim for it then”, “Ok”.Crossing Timaru River (given up on dry boots)
Brrrrrr another chilly one first thing! That’d wake you up. We had a choice to make today. And it was to follow the old Te Araroa route down the middle of the river, or, to nail it up the hill to Stody’s Hut and over Breast Hill ( er, Mountain! ) through a new section of trail just opened. The trail notes didn’t seem to match Cookie’s route, or the official route, and we couldn’t find any sign of the huts on the Topo map… With rain imminent and a ‘difficult decent’ supposedly to come, we thought sliding on wet scree down a mountain face might be less preferable to wading down an icy river ;) Probably. And anyway, the river looked a faster route to motels and beer. “Let’s swim for it then”, “Ok”.
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