Everyone left the hut, I had enough food for another day, so I decided to stay, it was just too nice to leave! I waded in the water, I would have gone swimming if there was a good place to rinse off, salt and hiking don’t mix well. I walked along the beach. I found […]
As I was drinking my morning coffee I heard a kiwi call, so I grabbed my camera and hurried down the trail, but sadly I wasn’t able to find it. I went back and packed up and set off to the Port William hut. The track was kind of boring at first, but then turned […]
Jayden and I took a rest day in Bluff. Holger joined us for breakfast then went back to Invercargrill. Jayden and I did our resupply for Stewart island. I had been talking to Sam so I knew that her, Yuji, steady Eddie, Pete and Katie were finishing, so I planned to meet them at the […]
Holger and I woke up and did a little planning, the next 30k are on the highway and we had no interest in walking it, it’s dangerous and boring. Jayden is doing the 100k challenge, which means he’s hiking the last 100k without stopping for more than a break here and there. We met Jayden […]
I was up early as usual, but I got talking with Sam and Laura and Laura, so I didn’t wake Holger up early. So we got going a little late. Then we stopped for breakfast and a proper coffee. Then a second coffee. It was a late start. The hike is 20k of beach followed […]
I’ve been feeling psychologically fatigued, and very much looking forward to the end of the trail. The weather looked nice in the morning, but the forecast said the rain would be back in the afternoon. I thought about skipping the hike today and instead hitching into town, grabbing lunch and a few supplies then hitching […]
Because we stopped early at the Lower Wairaki hut, we needed to hike 13 hours to get to a private hut. The DOC signs say 8 hours for the next part, over a small mountain and down to the campsite we were shooting for the day before, but the trail notes say 4 hours. then […]
I slept until 7, which is unusual. We were the last to leave the hut aside from the two older guys who were just doing a day hike and returning to that hut. There were some open fields, but most of the way to the next hut was birch forest with tons of ferns. It […]
I was up early as usual and got to enjoy a nice sunrise. Then Holger, Jayden and I got breakfast at a place in town with birthday pie (because the pie looked better than the cake) and started hitching back to the trail. Jayden and I got a ride first and we started hiking as […]
We still needed to resupply. Holger wanted to stay another day. Jayden wanted to hit the trail. I honestly could have gone either way. The tie breaker was that the first hut was only a couple kilometers from the road, so that wasn’t really worth it, but the second would be about seven and a […]