Day 19 last big walk - Sunday Nov 11

Sorry no pictures on this one, we literally just finished this walk and I haven't moved the pics to the computer from the camera yet.

Well we decided not to rush anything today, this was pretty much going to be our last day of hiking and we wanted to take it easy. We slept in a bit, took our time getting ready and eating breakfast before heading south for a hike. We swung into the information center to ask if the walk we were planning to take was worthwhile, they actually recommended another one which was in the same direction so we decided to do that one. This walk was actually on another section of the same trail we walked two days ago when we got into town. Our driver yesterday told us they do an annual race along this trail and last year the winner ran it in about 4 hours and 30 minutes, which is pretty amazing since if you plan to hike this trail you are expected to take about 6 days. There are huts places throughout the trail that you can reserve if you plan to hike the whole thing, you can hike about 6 to 8 hours between these huts, which are basically bunk houses.

Since the walk was along this trail we could basically make it as long as we wanted since we were going to walk out and then turn around and come back along the same trail. It was a nice walk, nothing spectacular like at Rob Roy, or yesterday, but it was very nice and green along a riverside and through the woods. I still can’t believe how many ferns they have here, they coat the ground. We made it to one of the huts in about an hour and a half and decided to keep walking another 30 minutes to make our walk 4 hours total. Once we got to 2 hours we were feeling good so went another 30 before turning back, figuring on a 5 hour walk total. What’s odd is that we always make it back faster than we do the midpoint of our walks. This makes sense when we climb a hill or mountain or something, but this was a fairly flat walk the whole way. Despite that, we still got back about 20 minutes faster than we took to get to the turnaround point.

After the walk we just came back to the hotel for a bit and are now about to head out to do some email, where I’ll probably do the last blog update, and then we’ll head off to dinner.