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| Mel & Batman at falls |
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| View of the tops |
We had a closed day at work today, so I went for a wander in the woods with Mel and Hamish (although we all call him Batman.) Batman is from the area so he knows the woods quite well, which means he doesn't have to stick to any sort of trail. First we went down a trail that had been closed for slips (mud slides). We just climbed over them and kept on going. We found a lovely little waterfall, but I can't remember what it's called. Then we headed cross country, forded a stream and did some scrambling through the bush, struggling to escape bush lawyer (a vineish plant with very strong stickers that wraps itself around you and makes it difficult to make any forward progress until you work hard to free yourself from its grasp) and bashing ourselves on rocks and things. Eventually, after a lunch stop by a stream, we worked our way uphill for a while and came out onto the junction with the Mt. Somers trail. In amongst the bush we found a deer skull and evidence of wild pigs rooting in the dirt. We hiked up higher until we had a nice view of the mountain and the snow settled on its top, then turned around and headed down via the trail. It was a pretty fun, hard core day.
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| Mel & me & DeerFred |
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| Victory photo at the end of the day |
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