Too Much Fun

It could take forever for me to create a real website about our New Zealand trip, so I decided to create a weblog because it's so much easier to post stuff as it comes to mind, and allows everyone else on the tramping tour to contribute online. I hope others will contribute their comments, memories and images. Maybe after there's some content I actually will create a web page, but knowing what a lethargic slug I am, that will probably never happen. I haven't got all our pictures organized yet, so here's a panorama to start it off.
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This panorama was taken from the Sealy Tarns on the trail up to the Mueller Hut, on Christmas Day. Can you imagine a better way to spend Christmas Day?! From the floor of the valley, this trail rises 500 meters in 500 meters of horizontal distance. I'm so glad we weren't carrying packs, because it was hard enough for my knees as it was!

The peak in the distance is Aoraki/Mount Cook with Hooker Glacier below it. To the left is the Mount Sefton ice fall where we heard several avalanches and saw one or two also. To the right is the valley leading out to the northern end of Lake Pukaki. That night we camped near the south shore of Lake Pukaki, with a fabulous view north across the turquoise-blue lake to Mount Cook.

Eight of us took this day hike, and you can see the rest of the group to the right, including Jenny taking a picture of Regan so it looks like he's sitting on top of Mount Cook. Regan was our guide extraordinaire, and he said only about 1 in every 10 trips there does he get to see the top of Mount Cook, so we were very fortunate to have such a fabulous view.

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