Thread: Checked out a new spot for Easter

First I walked up a hill for an hour. Turned out I could have driven half of it, but its a few years since I was last there climbing and the track wasn't as rough as I remembered.

Then I tried to walk up this, which turned out to be a 1 in 1 slope through nasty ass matagouri scrub crap. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

Wye Creek by gravelben, on Flickr

After a couple of hours of horribleness and feeling my lack of fitness, I gave up and went back down it to follow a track up here.

Wye Creek by gravelben, on Flickr
Wye Creek by gravelben, on Flickr

Which seemed like it might have chamois potential, plus it wasn't too far off dark and I was sick of walking so I set up camp.

Wye Creek by gravelben, on Flickr

Next morning I crawled out of my tent, wandered up the valley a bit and bumped into a couple of other blokes who were heading right through, so I left the upper valley to them and had a nosey up the sides of the valley for the rest of the morning. Bit of sign around but only saw a couple of hares.

Wye Creek by gravelben, on Flickr
Wye Creek by gravelben, on Flickr

Nice enough view mind you.

Wye Creek by gravelben, on Flickr

I had planned to stay up there another day and have more of a look around, but rain was closing in and my cooker had crapped out so laziness got the better of me and I just buggered off back down the valley that afternoon and went home for some fish n chips.

Wye Creek by gravelben, on Flickr
Lake Wakatipu by gravelben, on Flickr

Good to go for a walk anyway, maybe I'll find some animals next time.