Wednesday 22.03.2023

• Te Araroa kilometres done: 2542km
• Official kms: 20.5km
• Garmin kms: 31.04km (had to do extra 10km to bypass the river)
• Total time: 7:43
• Calories burned: 3193
• Body battery: 7/10 (best hut sleep yet, but feel like I’m getting a cold!)
• Accommodation: Tin hut
• Tent nights tally: 18
• Zero days had so far: 26

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I slept in until after 7am this morning. This bed has to be one of the most comfortable beds I’ve slept in. Wire with a mattress is amazing.

Antonia has been keeping me updated on the river levels & its still far to high to cross so we have to do the alternative which means over 5kms down the river to a bridge & then another 5 to 6kms back up to meet the trail.

Jake was the only other person here last night so today we are walking the detour around back to the the trail. It was about 15.5km in total to the bridge.

By the time we got to the bridge it was time for lunch so we stopped & sat down for a good 20 minutes or so.

From this point we had 6km of gravel road before meeting back up with the trail, it didn’t take long to get this done & from here it was a nice trail for a few kilometres before meeting up with the farm track.

In total we did jus over 31km for what’s supposed to be only 20km but wasn’t worth risking the river crossing.

When we arrived at the hut Lindy was there, she had just walked from the farm track, as the farmer had picked her up hitchhiking.

It was nice to get here have a dip in the river & chat with my fellow hikers. Peter whom I had met a few days back arrived just after 6pm. He decided to tent though after seeing a mouse run across my pack.

Another guy turned up at 8:30 & opted to tent as well since he still wanted to cook dinner etc. it was pretty much bed time at this point. Still figuring out what tomorrows plan is.