If you see an opening in the calendar sometimes you just have to jump, make use of my Backcountry Hut Pass and have a few more nights in the hills.
There is a different flavour to the air when it’s cool, and that tingly feeling in the morning.
A long weekend in mid-autumn, if you wait any longer it will be winter, and snow, and cold, and avalanches, and possibilities entirely reduced.
Might as well go now.
I had a plan of the sort: get to a couple of huts to document, Coldwater and Cupola, then, umm, maybe the plan was more fluid. Try for Mt Misery Hut perhaps.
I’m usually there with a well-structured idea.
This time, maybe not.
I had five days, that’s five nights’ food, and some decent weather, barring the wet Saturday according to the forecast.
As it turned out I miscalculated the number of days, it was actually six nights/seven days, but, whatever, I thought I’d probably survive.
Being Nelson Lakes there was bound to be plenty of big climbs.
This is how it turned out . . .
