Showing posts with label tramping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tramping. Show all posts

Monday, November 18, 2013

My First Tramping In NZ

D0

An old couple, Steve and Carol, gave me a lift so that I could catch the calendar and made it to the campsite early.

D1

Last night, before going to sleep, M said that he need at least a 8hr-sleep for the trekking next day, so we just set alarm to 0800.
We had quite a breakfast this morning, fried noodles, kiwi fruits, apples and biscuits. That could be much better with fresh milk and juice. But I didn't take any because they were too heavy take. Anyway, I am a ULer! (forget about the fruits and the coins #233 -_-#).
This was quite different from my previous experience. For every trekking in China before, we had very simple breakfasts in a hurry.
After some fried noodles (two serves) and a cup of coffee, we went to Mt. I Don’t Remember the Name, which took me 22min, and for M, 37min. The view was not as good as in some other places I have been before. However, it was so nice that I could see the sea and some small islands up there.
The view of sunset recalled me of the good old days that several years ago, when I was in the Jiading Campus, I could always enjoy the time of seeing the sun down and down until its disappearance, in the 4th floor of the library.
M's strength was not as good as I thought before, but he was the best candidate by now.
After some fried noodles (two serves) and a cup of coffee, we went to Mt. I Don’t Remember the Name, which took me 22min, and for M, 37min. The view was not as good as in some other places I have been before. However, it was so nice that I could see the sea and some small islands up there.
The view of sunset recalled me of the good old days that several years ago, when I was in the Jiading Campus, I could always enjoy the time of seeing the sun down and down until its disappearance, in the 4th floor of the library.
M's strength was not as good as I thought before, but he was the best candidate by now.
The view of sunset recalled me of the good old days, several years ago, when I was in the Jiading Campus, I could always enjoy the time of seeing the sun down and down until its disappearance, in the 4th floor of the library.
M's strength was not as good as I thought before, but he was the best candidate by now.
Having considered M's status and the necessity of carrying camping gears, I asked M to deal with the 4-person tent ((_)). After a breakfast of instant rice and noodles, we started the journey today, and 1.5hrs later, M felt uncomfortable and decided to fall back to the campsite. Concerning his terrible status, I companied him back to the campsite where we started this morning and then restarted my journey at 1330, alone.
The journey started at 1100, and took 5.5hrs to finish a 3hrs-average-route (we WALK as a team, if you ask).


D2

I got up at 0550 came to the viewpoint a couple of minutes before the time the hut keeper had told me yesterday. And then I found that I made a mistake, that the viewpoint was nice for the view of sunset. But for the sunrise, there was a big rock standing in the way.
It cost us 4.5hrs to the campsite, which supposed to be more that, even M was not in the right shape.
Before going to sleep, with the help of Star Chart app, I recognized some famous stars such as Mariner’s Compass, Virgin and Sirius.


D3

Generally, it would cost 4-6 hours to the intended campsite for today, I thought I could make it less than 5hrs and get there right before sunset. Even I brought two headlamps, it was not wise to trekking/hiking in some routes you were not familiar with. I set timers for both walking and breaks, and arrived at the campsite after 3.5hrs, when I realized that I could be the only one person in the campsite.
I had to mention that, I only got 1 piece of solid fuel then, which could boil less than 1L water even with windscreen. (This was my fault. I did not have made and tests with the solid fuels before I came here.)That was a windy night, but occasionally I could get some signals to make a few calls.


D4

I was so graceful to find that I was still alive after such a terrible rainy and windy night. After having some biscuits and instant chocolate with cold water, I left the campsite.
2hrs later, I came to a widely advised viewpoint with extensive views, and after another 2hrs, I arrived at the end of the whole 4-5 days trekking.
(Water consumption during trekking: 500ml / 4hrs, aggressive, huh)