Thread: Wapiti ballot

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

That's rough mate, knees are bastard bloody things and it pays to look after them, fiordland is a pretty unforgiving place if you're not in tip top shape. I was only about three months after a knee reconstruction when we went in, I felt good at the time but did have a wee niggle in the back of my mind if I was doing the right thing, sure enough, coming down off Henry pass on day two and she let go in pretty spectacular fashion, ended up taking a pretty decent dive and took the best part of the rest of the daye just to make it down to the deadwood lagoon where the chopper could get in to extract us, felt like a right bloody knob and put a bit of a downer on @sambnz's first excursion into wapiti country too. You live and you learn eh?

Deadwood lagoon is a swampy nightmare.