Mt Cook

2 Mar

In the morning I decided to go for a day trip to Mt Cook, the highest mountain in New Zealand. The locals in Twizel said the weather there was gonna be alright but would change later during the day. I caught a lift with a young English couple staying in the same backpackers. We arrived about 10 am and the weather was already pretty miserable – low cloud, windy, drizzling and cold. I went for two short walks to Kea lookout and around the glaciers and spent there some six hours. I didn’t see Mt Cook the whole day but I didn’t feel like hanging around more. It was drizzling all day and I was wet and cold so I hitchhiked back to Twizel. Later that night I met Roland and Matt who meanwhile arrived at Twizel and we went to a pub for a couple of beers.