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Greenstone Track Day 2 and back to Queenstown

I’ve been back in Queenstown for 2 days now - staying with Sharlene again, the Kiwi girl who picked me up on the way down from Christchurch. I hiked out from the Greenstone Track the other day - 4 hours down to the road and another 2.5 hours of road walk in the hot sun before 3 teenage kids finally picked me up and gave me a lift all the way back to Queenstown. Man was I glad for that. The sun was sweltering. Once in Queenstown I called Sharelene and she said yeah, no problem to stay with her again for a few days. Great! I was so happy to have a home to go to. Since then we’ve been hanging out, having coffee in town every day and barbecues with friends at night. It’s been really good. I’m going to stick around until Monday and then catch a ride to Wanaka with Sharlene where I’ll start the next tramp.

Walking out of the Greenstone Track
Walking out of the Greenstone Track

The road walk begins
The road walk begins

Views of the lake on the road walk
Views of the lake on the road walk

Add comment January 18th, 2003

Greenstone Track Day 1 - Mid Greenstone Hut

4 km road walk this morning then finally a pick-up thankfully to the road and the start of the Routeburn Track / Greenstone. Hiking at 10:30am up to Key Summit - great views/ beautiful weather/ perfect day to look around at all the surrounding peaks. Walking again back to Routeburn then to Greenstone - great track and perfect day for walking. Cruised along and enjoyed taking it all in. 2 hours to first hut, 4 hours to next. Full house here - I’m tenting outback. Good company though, interesting people. Don’t want to forget to stop and take it all in.

Wondergimp does Key Summit
Wondergimp does Key Summit

Heading down into Greenstone Valley
Heading down into Greenstone Valley

Field of tussock
Field of tussock

Add comment January 15th, 2003


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