After a cold night outside the hut we headed for our next hut in the next valley over. We hiked straight uphill on tussock in the snow until we got to the ridge, where we were greeted with a snowball ambush by the kiwis from the hut. While we were up there Golshan also built a snowman, and Anna dressed it up to look like her.
(Pics: "okay guys, now pretend you're friends"; Golshan being proud; a well dressed snowman)
Then we descended down a slope steep enough that Darren and Anna decided to just sit down and slide, and found our next hut in a river valley.
Since we had a long time left before sundown, we all just did whatever we do when we're chilling: Anna sketched, Nathan Golshan fished, Darren tried to dry out his boots, and Wesley sat still for ten minutes and then got up and started chopping wood.
(Pics: mountains!; home sweet hut; this is how exciting New Zealand is)
The next day was a fairly chill hike down. Most of the snow had melted off and it was yet another beautiful NZ day. Our snowman of the day before had fallen over and his head had melted out of existence. Wesley and Anna, obviously driven crazy by the snow, decided to go swimming in the river.
(Pic: why would you do that?!)
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