Richmond - Slatey Hut

5.49km 3hrs 850m up sunny as. Such a beautiful day! The start of the day was a steady climb up mt starvall. Part of the path was the climbing from the Mt safety video so I was quite pleased that I manged to not disgrace myself there. I was quite taken with all the tiny alpine flowers along the way. The view from the top was quite breathtaking, on the one side nothing but mountains and in the other civilization! The further we got into the mountains the fewer glimpses of civilisation we saw though. The path was relatively flat compared to the last couple of days though, which made us fairly skip along. We had a lovely break in an alpine meadow where the grasses were much spikier than expected, and when we roused ourselves we found f the next hut just around the corner.Read more