Another sunny day in Wellington, so Messurs Rudge, Slater, Sheppard and Chaplow headed off to XXXX and Mt XXXX for a secret reccie. Due to the nature of the trip, no correspondance can be entered into.
Very cold 8am start but a few minutes of uphill had us all stripping off. We found, and usually lost again, a few long forgotten tracks and enjoyed a few bits of tricky nav between high points. It all got a bit easier once we confirmed where we were, and weren't, on the map and we needed only a short backtrack to remove an incorrect check point. The bush was mostly pretty user friendly but not many people had been through recently so a fair number of logs and branches were rotten and collapsed under my weight! Paul "I like spurs" Chaplow did lead us on an interesting crawl up a few hundred meters of fairly steep, overgrown and untracked bush.
Very cold 8am start but a few minutes of uphill had us all stripping off. We found, and usually lost again, a few long forgotten tracks and enjoyed a few bits of tricky nav between high points. It all got a bit easier once we confirmed where we were, and weren't, on the map and we needed only a short backtrack to remove an incorrect check point. The bush was mostly pretty user friendly but not many people had been through recently so a fair number of logs and branches were rotten and collapsed under my weight! Paul "I like spurs" Chaplow did lead us on an interesting crawl up a few hundred meters of fairly steep, overgrown and untracked bush.
All in all a great day, a nice jetboiled coffee and pain-au-chocolaut for morning tea, I managed to keep my feet pretty dry and blister free and the view on the tops of XXX, XXX and all the way to XXX was spectacular. Pity the walk down was so steep as my quads haven't forgiven me yet. After 8 hours, as serious althetes who take their recovery seriously, we had a beer to finish and headed off home.
Another group with a similar purpose, who started earlier but took a different route, didn't get out till 8pm and rumour has it one member was in trouble at home.
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