After a sleepless night due to no airbed Jeremy was in a right pecker.
We went to the library as soon as it opened to skype Baz as it was his birthday today (tomorrow in Jersey).
We filled out an ‘intentions’ form for our 2day trek and gave it in to the DOC office so they can come and rescue us when Jeremy gets us lost.
A good start to the trek when, after several hours, we still couldn’t find the goddamn road to turn down! After discussing the possibility of a ‘rest day’ and running over a bird we stumbled upon the turnoff (we were only 15km wrong!) and started walking. Straight up a cliff. For hours.
Past the treeline the trail ended. There were then brief periods of hellish steepness and some pretty cereal mountain-goat style scaling. To make life easier we walked along the ridge of the mountains. Not for Victoria who has recently discovered her phobia of heights. After a couple of gnarly rocky crossings with beconing sheer drops either side, Victoria had a bit of a cry. We had also realised that if we had walked up a different ridge it would have been a lot easier. Doh! Still, Jeremys map reading skills were actually quite impressive as he sat and worked out our location with the compass and some geeky terminology about ‘triangulating’ or something. Must be his Bear Grylls shoes.
The views were stunning and not a person in sight, just a couple of birds of prey waiting for the two stupid English people to get lost and die.
We pitched our tent in a hollow between mountains with a handful of lakes and tarns surrounding us. The wind was howling and it was freezing but the sun was still out so we cooked on the side of the mountain overlooking Green Lake and the forest. Had a scrummy meal from a packet. At no point in time did that food ever resemble what it was supposed to. Mexican chicken and apple pie was more like rubber bits in water and cold sugared sauce with two biscuits ontop. But we were full and sat in the middle of nowhere, 1355m up, with noone else around and had that amazing view, so we were quite content.
Our tent took a hammering that night, but we both slept better than we had in days! Might be because of the 5hours of uphill walking and scaling mountains.
