Routeburn falls hut

The bus trip from queenstown was quite brisk. The driver has obviously done the trip enough to be able to go quite quickly. Unfortunately not all of the passengers could quite cope with the windy roads at that speed. Luckily not one of us.

The weather was a bit on and off with the showers but all in all it was pretty prefect tramping weather. The rain had made all the waterfalls that much more spectacular and the moss that much more vibrant.

At one point we heard a stag roaring. I'm pretty sure it's the first time I've heard such a thing and it was an amazing sound.

We had lunch at the routeburn flats hut which had a great shelter. Prefect for stopping out of the drizzle for bur to eat.

We reached the routeburn falls hut at 2pm. Which usually had me pacing about looking for ways to get rid of my excess energy. This time though I felt perfectly content just to read a book. I must be in need of a bit of rest.

The hut is huge.. there are over 40 people staying tonight, bit there is plenty of space and it's well thought it so we didn't feel like we were on top of one another. Up the hill there are another couple of huge buildings for the guided walks. It kind of looks like like they get motel accomodation.... if certainly explains some of the tiny backpacks we saw on the trail as well.

The falls were pretty spectacular. Apparently the falls dumps water into into a fault that runs parallel to the fast southern fault. I'll have to check out where it runs up the ridge tomorrow. Czytaj więcej