Really wanted to get out and stretch the legs again this weekend.. In fact I’d quite like to get out and about a lot more this year. My back is still a bit of a pain ;) it does stiffen up quite a bit after a tramp – but doesn’t seem to annoy me too much during – and from what I’ve heard it’s better to exercise a back rather than otherwise.
Anyway – a nice lazy start (about 10:30) and off up to Arthurs Pass. Avalanche peak goes from about 760m up to 1833m. It’s a pretty steep track – but once you get out of the bush the views are spectacular.
It was great on the top – there was very little wind and it was great just relaxing in the sunshine and chatting with Michelle (Shelly). It was kinda funny – Shelly is another pretty fit friend – well into her running etc… and we’d stopped for about 3 mins and she started putting on her rucksack again… and I was like ‘where are you going? What’s the rush? ;)’.. she soon came round. Actually I was really impressed with her ‘cos she’d badly sprained (thought it was broken – cast ‘n everythink) her wrist – and was then hopping about on boulders and running down scree slopes. Mad kiwi.
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Shellys friend Howie came and met us half way up the main scree run down (you descend about 550m down a scree slope… lots of fun) and carried her backpack the rest of the way… decent bloke that!
Met some interesting people in the hut – one of them a kiwi programmer called Liam has been travelling back from Europe overland – with his laptop! He did a few hours (like 5) a week of programming and that pretty much paid his way. I need to get better at this programming lark and get into that!!
Anyway – wet walk out today (weather turned).. slightly suffering from a cold so really looking forward to an early nights sleep. Fun weekend though..
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