Day 5

Our pre retirement trial trip- day 5

The aim today was to hike St Mary’s Peak, Wilpena Pound.
Our mad dash across Vic and into SA, the km covered and the one night stops were all for this. To get here and do the hike before it gets too hot and the trails close on the 30th Nov. Job done ✔️

The hike comes with excitement, but a whole lot of trepidation for Justine, especially after being so unwell this year with limited cardio fitness. But whatever, we are here and we are doing it. 🏃🏼🎒
After we much deliberation we decided to tackle the loop outside in, and set off at first light to reduce our time on the trail in the heat of the day. ☀️

NOTHING prepared us for what we encountered 😟
The outside section had us scrambling over boulders and literally rock climbing at times
We were so glad we decided to tackle the outside section first as we could not imaging trying to scramble down it with tired legs.
Justine stayed at the saddle whilst Johnny made the out and back to the peak. ⛰️
Then it was the long hike back down the inside to the middle of Wilpena Pound and out- 24 km in total in just over 7 hours (5 hrs moving time)
We wished we had a sash to show what we had done as we headed back into the resort hot, bedraggled and looking a little worse for wear as we got some very strange looks from those around 🥵

It will be a very quiet evening for us tonight I’m sure. Just hope the legs don’t cramp up 😳Read more