Flo, Pierre and I got a shuttle to the trailhead with Lizabeth🇧🇪, Carolann 🇩🇪, Roe 🇳🇿 and Demelza 🇳🇿. The trail started following the river bed with a lot of crossings, but not difficult ones.
At one point the trail goes up over a large hill then back down to a river, but we opted to follow the river and deal with the crossings instead of going up the hill in the heat.
We found a nice swimming hole and stopped for a couple dips and a wonderful long break. The hut was less than 2k away, but a lot of uphill.
At the hut we were joined by Hunter 🇳🇿 and three NOBOs from New Zealand, one of which was in his 70’s!
