Breast hill - Pakituhi hut

24.5km nearly 11hrs. So sunny!

What an epic day. We ended up doing quite a bit of the high water track despite our intentions to stay in the river bed. The scrambles that were promised in the trail notes weren't as bad as expected.

The climb to Stodys hut however was. It was about 600m of elevation straight up. When the notes say steep climb to the hut they are not kidding!

Once art the hut we had a decision whether to stay and risk having an extra night on the trail or carry on to Pakituhi. After a lunch eaten in the woodshed for a patch of shade with back we could lean against we decided to go on. We knew that there was no water between Stodys hut and Pakituhi so the logical thing to do would be full our water bladders right there for the journey, but some people we had pay in the other direction had mentioned a lovely stream with a waterfall and a sign saying "last water" so we decided to fill up there.

It became apparent about half way to the Ridgeline that they must have meant after for them not for us... we had minimal water but deemed it enough to get us to the next hut. By the time we were heading up breast hill in the baking sun, I was shaking my head at my stupidity... why wait for the 'the best' stream?! It's just water?!

We made it though - the views were SPECTACULAR! Maybe the best so far.

We were very glad to reach the hut and guzzle tank water without even filtering. The hut was another treat, being built in 2011 it was pretty nice inside.Leggi altro