A beautiful autumn day since 1 week ago. A freezing morning and the muddy section were frozen hard today.
Walked the 4WD road track cover by frost like ice
needles around the lake. Passed a campsite, crossed a swing bridge and walked
down a pleasant walking track through mountain beech forest. Mossy ground along
the track was beautiful. Most of the walk today was in the forest with no sun. A sunny day, but was cold and gloves and a hat needed all day. If only I could
save this fine weather till the day I will attempt the Takitimu Mountains.
From
the bridge on my way, saw Mararoa river that I will walk across tomorrow. Looked
deeper than anticipated due to the snow melt. A hunter I came across on my way
said to me it was deep and hard to walk across. Will be safer to walk back the
same way a bit and cross this bridge again tomorrow. Arrived at Kiwi Burn hut
at 15:00. Decided to get up early next morning and went to bed at early at 21:00. Walked 7.25 hours, 27km.
今日は一週間ぶりの秋晴れ。その分朝は冷え込みが厳しく、昨日ぬかるんでいた地面がカチカチに凍っている。霜柱を踏みしめながら湖畔の四輪駆動道を歩き、キャンプ場を過ぎた後は釣り橋を渡って対岸の、苔の絨毯が美しい気持ちの良い山ブナのトレッキングコースを南下する。しかし今日の歩きは大半が森の中で日が射さず、せっかくの晴天なのに帽子と手袋が外せないほど寒い。この天気は次のタキティム山脈の区間にとっておきたいほどだ。
途中の釣り橋から明日渡渉せねばならないマラロア川を見ると、雪解け水のせいか思いのほか水位が高い。途中で会った猟師も「川の水位が高くて大変だ」と言っていた。明日は同じ道を少し戻ることになるが、この吊橋を渡る方が無難なようだ。キーウィーバーン小屋には15:00に到着。明日は早く発つことに決め、早めの21:00就寝。本日の歩行7時間15分、27km。
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