Monday, 18 August 2008 (day 18)
Skyline Track Hike, Queenstown, New Zealand
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We slept in, we deserved it. We were getting up at 6am every day til now. SnowDude was on the internet and phone trying to make sure we were set for the Tuesday trip home. We finally got out around 2:30pm, got a late lunch, then started our short hike at 4pm. We got sidetracked when we saw a sign that said "summit 3 hrs", and took that trail even though it was late. We saw the next sign, and realized it was 3 hrs one way (NZ walks usually post round trip walking time). We were doing good, but the summit wasn't going to happen. It was snowing, and we couldn't see where the summit was (til the next day, from the plane). We turned around, and took another trail to the Skyline Gondola (our original goal), and had a drink before heading to town for dinner.
hike starts off in the trees
finally out of the trees, Lake Wakatipu in the distance
the summit was somewhere out there
time to turn back, can't see anything anyway
hiked to the top of the Gondola, watched the Olympics, then took the easy way down before going to dinner
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