Pelorus - Hacket hut

6km 2hrs 19m mostly sunny. We were commenting quite loudly about how nice the track was this morning compared with the previous days but still somehow managed to surprise a small red deer. She was far more willing to leave the path than the goat from yesterday. The path ran along the river for a bit with a couple of crossings, and there had been a couple af washouts so it was not clear exactly where the path went so Chistian and Karen ended up nearly at the top of the cliff in the picture. Luckily realizing at the last minute that it was not the correct path. At the junction with hacket hut we weren't sure if the boys had recieved a message that we were planning on walking toward them rather than meeting them at the hut so I dropped my pack and ran down 10 min to the hut and the guys were already there so we walked back to get my pack and the others and headed to Hackett hut to resupply. Paul brought us cherries and raspberries so he might be my hero at the moment.Read more