Legs and Borders

I nearly went through all four seasons today, crossing Ahuriri wasn't possible so I had to take the detour. It was still raining in the morning, I put my wet underwear, pants, socks and shoes on, ate porridge I cold soaked overnight and hiked out. Next couple of hours were a mixture of rain and wind. Wind would dry my clothes, rain would make me wet again, it happened several times. Eventually weather stabilized, but it was quite windy until the whole day. At around midday I started to see Northbounders, few crosses the river yesterday and camped on the other side but the ones trying to cross today couldn't do it, everyone was taking the detour to the bridge few kilometres downstream. I reached Ahuriri at 1pm, checked both recommended crossing points, but the water would go above my knees immediately after stepping into the river and my trekking pole would disappear while trying to check the path. Water was all muddy, current very...

Rainy day spend walking along the canals and lakes. After a decent breakfast at the holiday park (avocado, banana and Korean rice noodle salad) I started tramping around 6am. Trail was still running along Alps2Ocean cycling route and it was easygoing. It begun to rain at 10am. I caught up with Paul before midday he wasn't feeling it, I knew his tent wasn't rainproof anymore, he even bought couple of bin bags to put over it in case it did. I haven't seen him for the rest of the day and there was a lodge along the trail so perhaps he chose to go there rather than risk getting wet at night. It carried on raining and it was cloudy for the rest of the day, I stopped halfway through the first of three climbs we had to do on this section. It was next to a stream in the forest. It wasn't a campsite but it looked like people camped here often. Tomorrow trail was crossing a fairly big river called Ahuriri which after two days of rai...