Waitomo - Te Kūiti

I dag gik det over marker samt meget glatte stier i skove. Efter at have gledet to gange, kort tid efter hinanden, indså jeg, at det bare var en af de dage, hvor det går mindre godt, og jeg satte tempoet gevaldigt ned.

Det, som skulle have været en relativt nem dag, blev bare lidt af en øv dag. Senere på dagen fik jeg migræne, hvorefter det hele gav mening.

Jeg overnattede i Te Kūiti hos en Trail Angel i hans garage og havde planlagt en hviledag dagen efter, hvilket passede ret godt, eftersom det skulle regne en del om aftenen samt om natten.

Dagen efter fik jeg vasket tøj og købt ind til de kommende fem dage. Derudover ankom otte andre, som også skulle overnatte der og søgte ly for det dårlige vejr. Jeg mødte til min overraskelse Felix, som jeg havde gået med i halvanden uges tid, inden jeg tog på roadtrip med Aviaja.

Den sti/vej, vi skulle være gået af, da vi skulle gå fra Te Kūiti, fulgte bl.a. en flod. Men eftersom det havde regnet en del, var den gået over sine bredder, og vores søde Trail-host kørte os i stedet hen til starten af Timber Trail, 40 minutters køretid. Vi kæmpede lidt med at få plads til vores tasker i bilen, men det lykkedes!

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Today the route went across fields and very slippery forest trails. After slipping twice, shortly after each other, I realized it was just one of those days where things don’t go so well, and I slowed the pace down considerably.

What was supposed to be a relatively easy day turned into a bit of a “meh” day. Later in the afternoon I got a migraine, which suddenly made everything make sense.

I stayed in Te Kūiti with a Trail Angel in his garage and had planned a rest day the following day, which turned out to be a good decision since it was supposed to rain quite a lot in the evening and during the night.

The next day I did my laundry and bought food for the upcoming five days. Later, eight other hikers arrived who were also staying there and seeking shelter from the bad weather. To my surprise, I met Felix, whom I had been hiking with for about a week and a half before I went on a road trip with Aviaja.

The trail/road we were supposed to take when leaving Te Kūiti followed a river, among other things. But since it had rained a lot, the river had overflowed, and our kind trail host drove us to the start of the Timber Trail instead — a 40 minute drive. We struggled a bit to fit all our bags into the car, but we made it!Leggi altro