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andrewg > Happy Endings! Andrew at the end of the Kepler Track.
andrewg > A sandbar in the Walau River. The river was flowing pretty well at this point, after the rain of the previous night and most of today, though the rain had stopped by now.
andrewg > Near the end of the Kepler Track you cross over several swingbridges. They're a lot of fun, sort of like a little treat.
andrewg > A boardwalk winds from the main track to a spur trail looking out onto a big broad bog.
andrewg > More moss. Everywhere there's moss. Beautiful, colorful, stringy moss.
andrewg > The Moturao Hut. I was going to stay here my third night, but I had gotten a really early start that day, and reached the hut by mid-day. I realized that if I moved, I could reach the endpoint in time to catch the bus to Te Anau, which effectively would give me another day to do stuff before my visa ran out and I had to come home. Though the hut sits right on a lake and is in a beautiful spot (the hut warden called it "Hut Med"), and I really, really enjoyed staying in the huts because of the great camraderie, I decided I wanted the extra day. So I had a snack and pushed on.
andrewg > Every hut has a visitor's log. In the summer, it's optional, because there are enough people on the track that it's unlikely you're going to hurt yourself and not be detected. In the winter, signing into the logs can save your life. Before you start, you fill out a Declaration of Intent at the local DoC office, and then separate the top part (with a serial number, your name, itinerary, a "panic date", and return date) from the lower part (which just has another copy of the serial number). When you come off the trail, you drop your lower part back into the box at the DoC. Each night they compare the numbers. If you're late, and not yet back by your panic date, they'll go looking for you, and from what I read and heard, they will find you.
andrewg > You can't have a rain forest this pretty without rain, and lots of it, so though a clear day is more than welcome, I didn't mind the rain.
andrewg > Another wet, wet fern forest.
Happy Endings! Andrew at the end of the Kepler Track.
andrewg > Happy Endings! Andrew at the end of the Kepler Track.
Happy Endings! Andrew at the end of the Kepler Track.
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