Ruahine Hut Bagging Labour Weekend 20-22 October

Saturday, 20 October 2018
Tyre blew out on Comet Rd so on went the spacie
Heaps of Kowhai in bloom
Taruarua River
Shutes Hut (huge rat inside)
Hill we'd come down and now we are climbing the other side
Looking back at Shutes
Taruarau Biv

Dianes Hut

Up the river at 6:30 the next morning
Looks like a mini big cat
Looking back at Dianes
Walk along No Mans Road
Ruahine Hut
We had to drop into the Koau Stream and back up the hill on the left
Steep descent
Climbing back up
Looking back at the Taruarau River and the route back to the car
Where we had climbed the day before
Shutes Hut again
We'd blocked the rats nest and cleaned the hut yesterday
But there was fresh droppings
Bashing through onga onga
Quite a bit of it
We camped under the stars
In bed by 5:45pm (truth)
May as well join them
Nice shot Marcia
Back over the river and 850m up the hill on the last day