Woo hoo, first snow! We had heard grave reports of ‘treacherous snow conditions, must have ice axe and crampons..’ from the DOC people at the visitors centre. Quite good snow for walking on actually, nice and sticky, didn’t get soft and post holey in the afternoon either. Going to enjoying coming back down this way in a few hours time :D
White Christmas (kind of)
Fresh Dusting of Snow on the Tops
We woke up to a chilly hut this morning and when Nico said there was snow outside I thought he was joking! This put a different spin on the idea of climbing up the pass today. We squinted up at the mountain and tried to figure out how many metres up the snow started. Were we going to be crunching on snow up the mountain?