Milford Track, Day 2

The second day was also awesome, and a lot more challenging. We were there on the very first day the track was opened for the year. Very exciting, but not all of the bridges were in place. See, it was too dangerous for the DOC to install the bridges. And it would have been too dangerous for us to go over that bit of track the day before. But they deemed it would be all right as long as we didn't dawdle! Right! No dawdling in the avalanche area. Except! We had to dawdle! There were no bridges, for crying out loud! You can't cross a river with no bridges without dawdling! Still we did our best.

It was also a very rainy day. We were soaked through and very glad that we had all those dry and warm clothes in our packs. It was impressive to show up at the cabin and see all of those ponchos hanging out on the porch.

You know, we worked so hard to keep our socks dry. On the second to last crossing, though, I jumped to a rock that rolled, and fell into the river. Once my socks were finally wet, I realized hey, that's not so bad after all! I should have got them wet early on, then those river crossings would have gone a lot faster!

Oh yes, and there were some incredible waterfalls along the way too. I couldn't get over how green everything was. We had it all. Views of rocks, waterfalls, and plant life.