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