Te Araroa (day 32) - Toilet Camp to Dracophyllum Hut [Tararua Range] / mile 977
"There are always a few people who are in the woods at night, in the rain (because if there were not the world would have ended) an I am one of them". Merton Another grindy day in Tararua Range, it looks like I will be arriving in Wellington later than I thought but luckily it's not a big deal. First thing in the morning I had the funniest encounter for a long time. I saw two teenagers walking on the wrong side of the fence alongside the trail. I assumed they were farmers children checking something. They eventually joined the trail and stopped by the river crossing. When I was walking past them they asked me if I knew how to get to Mangaore mountain, I checked it on my GPS but there was no trail leading up there, perhaps they could find other way if they returned to the carpark and went around. They nodded and joyfully went back. When I joined them at the car park, it turned out that Amelia and Jericho as that were their names, were both partying ...