Belated post on Walk the Walk
Posted on 9th June 2008
I was lucky enough to be able to sneak across to the valley on the day the Walk the Walkers arrived at the destination of their epic journey. We had a lovely walk in, beautiful kai, Heather was presented with some wine (carefully/cheerfully lugged in), and some good photo shots :)
Here’s an excerpt from the Walk the Walkers Blog:
"Dear Friends,
The journey is over and reached a perfect ending in the snowshine in the happiest valley I have ever known with seven friends in a warm comfortable yert, enjoying a hot meal and cups of tea and a bottle of wine, well appreciated with the knowledge it was carried in on someone’s back, just like everything else that made us warm and comfortable in such a wet, muddy place…
Matt from Mot met us here aswell and Emily and I left at 9.30 the next morning, up the bridal path to the top of the incline and along the four wheel drive track to a little old miners hut at the beginning of the track in to the valley. There we waited for Jonah, Micky and Matt in the chip wagon from 1.15 until about 3.15. We were on the way into the valley from about 3.45 and had to hurry ourselves to get through the roughest and most dangerous bits of the walk before dark.
Luckily the walk in was dry and sunny, then it snowed the next day and melted before we had to walk out, by which time the sun had come out again to melt away the snow from the day before."
Check it out - http://walkingit.blogspot.com/
If you’d like to visit the occupation see http://www.savehappyvalley.org.nz/occupation for contacts.
