Two thumbs- crooked spur hut.

12km 6hrs overcast

I was feeling a bit flat today. I really am missing my beautiful family and finding it a bit hard to be away from them for so long.

I don't know if it was the flat feeling or the horrendous wind at the start of the track or what, but I didn't even feel like swimming in the most amazing swimming hole yet!

The first 4 hours were spent crossing and revising the bush stream which was thigh high and quite fast so we were going a bit slower than the marked times. Then we climbed a bluff that it was obvious that others had climbed, and it was where the trail notes indicated sawtooth ridge was, but it ended up not being the path at all and required scrambling up very steep banks and sliding down equally steep backs on my butt. It broke the monotony of trudging up a river back though.

Finally we reached the path that lead away from the river and straight up the hill. It climbed about 300m in 500, so pretty steep, but for the first time todaybI felt totally energized. For some reason I just felt really good marching up the hill with my legs burning a little bit and heart rate up. It's like I'm missing my workouts.

Reaching the top was incredible. You immediately feel surrounded by mountains and the light was just incredible. It's impossible to capture just how amazing the light on the peaks with patches of snow on them looked. And the way you just feel situated as this tiny dot in the presence of giants.

We were lucky to get a bunk in the hut, there were already 4 people here which meant 4 empty bunks. I went to sleep without my earplugs so I could listen to the Kea softly calling as I drifted off. They seem to be circling the valley close to the hut.Leggi altro