adventures

We were thrown out of our van at the Asbestos Trailhead in the Cobb Valley of Kahurangi National Park at 3 in the afternoon and quickly split up the food.
(From left to right, the Kahurangi Trekking Co: Jen K, Mike A, Dhyana, Bryan, Jan, yours truly.)

Jan used her hand as a funnel and got covered in jam.

We hiked up past an abandoned asbestos mine and arrived at dusk at Asbestos Cottage, which Bryan termed "so fuckin' quaint."

The next day we planned to hike 10 miles and scale a mountain though Mike was fasting and Jan's knee was injured. We opted for Plan B when Jan fell and hurt her knee again--hiking up and over a large hill with a peat flat on it. Bryan (another Western student) especially enjoyed the tussock fields growing there.

Kahurangi is the fourth largest NZ nat'l park.

Karst, a special type of limestone, is scattered throughout the park.

We stayed at a cabin beside Cobb Valley for 3 nights. For one day hike, four of us trekked up the Peel Trail.

The Peel Valley lay below us.

We wandered along the ridge looking for a nice lunching spot.

We had wraps for lunch, but some of the pitas were so tough we played frisbee with them.