Despite it being the middle of winter the weather was looking good for the weekend and a friend of mine - Sam had his birthday and desperately wanted to get out tramping before his wife has their second child later this year (he hasn't been tramping since his last child was born 3 years ago). So we picked a moderate tramp to Waitewaewae (YTYY) hut in the Tararuas. Despite looking relatively flat on the map this tramp is pretty diverse. It starts on an old railway line that was built to bring down the logs from the forest, then it climbs up a stream bed with lots of crossing of the stream, and then finally it pops over the hill to the Otaki River and the YTYY hut. We did some geocaching along the way - although we didn't find the nano cache at the old boiler! We are sure it has gone missing....
We had a lovely evening in the hut, eating, drinking and playing games. It was very cold (especially when the fire went out over night). Then we walked out the next day... It was great to get out in the middle of winter and the frost on the plants looked quite spectacular. Looking forward to going back to YTYY hut in the summer and then floating back down the Otaki river....
Photos to come...
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