Harpers pass - Hope kiwi hut

19.5 km in 6.5 hours. Sunny morning overcast afternoon with a little rain.

Today was the muddiest day so far. My keen trail runners got well and truly christened in all the mud holes along the way.

I had decided that I had been too goal oriented with my tramping and need to take every opportunity for swimming that arises. Today it arose in the shape of a lovely blue-tinged stream a couple of km from the hut so that did for a bath as well.

Hope kiwi lodge was quite different, like a Lockwood type house with different rooms. I found myself having to trudge back and forth to the room for things I had forgotten at meal times.Leggi altro