I had not been up in the Tararuas this season , and have a plan for later in the summer, so I thought I had better get some miles into my legs. I went up the Atiwhakatu track this morning, deviating onto the old track to find see whether the red mistletoe was in flower. It was, and it looked fabulous. The old track ... not so great .... as it is falling apart in places. Still, it was a lovely walk up to the newly built hut. It had a few visitors, and looks very nice - certainly a vast improvement on the old hut.
I came back down to the Hooper Loop track, then made a quick detour up to the Mountain House track and came back down from there. It looks like the one yellow mistletoe on that track has died.
It is still the night of the tramp rather that the day after, but I do not feel as if there will be any muscle repercussions.
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