Dart'ing

Lincoln once again gave us a week off to "study" before finals. As soon as Matt and I recovered from Garden Party we were off to the hills. The destination for this adventure was the Rees-Dart tramping track outside of Queenstown.

Matt soaking up the eye candy, we started the trip by heading up the Dart River valley.


The night before we set out it rained cats and dogs therefore the track was its own river at times one day one.


The rain also made each side stream full of water, including this dozy.

Jump!

It was quite hot, so after the days walk we went for a swim in the river. Here I scope out the potential swing bridge cannon ball attempt.

Are place of residence for night one.


The morning of day two was spent crossing this flat and climbing to bush line where the next hut waited.

Hello big mountain

We got the hut in the early afternoon and took a break. The next days plan was to climb higher and attempt to cross a saddle into the Rees Valley. We took the remaining daylight and tried to check out condition of the pass. What we found was a whole crap ton of snow and lots of reason we should not try to cross over the pass...

A little to much snow for us to handle.

We headed back to the hut and regrettably retraced the previous two days steps all the way back to the car the next day. Having a day still needing to be filled with adventure we headed up a random hill the following day and enjoyed some sweet views of the surrounding mountains.

I bet that sign is there to just scare away people...

The parting shot. We finished the day hike and headed for home