Richmond - Mid wairoa hut

We left rintoul hut quite early with the promise of rain after lunch we planned to reach tairn hut by then and wait out the weather. The track was lovely and when we got to tairn hut we checked the weather, which now showed no rain until 5pm and we decided to go on. The track between tairn and mid wairoa huts is notable for a very steep down section but thankfully it didn't feel as terrible as the down into old man hut, so an excellent day of hiking really. There is a gorgeous pool near the hut so I had a jolly good wash, wading through the sand flys to get to the water. Luckily they don't seem to like cold skin. Forecast is for fine weather tomorrow so all the things got a wash. The hut itself is lovely but has a terrible bumble bee problem. We had to shoo them out the windows but the would just keep coming in every time anyone came in the door.Læs mere