AAWT Day 7

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Rumpf Saddle – Low Saddle

Hiked 21.45

Total 128.4

Ascent 834

Descent 1241

Weather sunny, warm and windy

Food

Breakfast noodles and coffee

Lunch Ryvita biscuits with vegemite, corned beef and cheese. See below for explanation

Dinner butter chicken and strawberry ambrosia (you know it’s good Stu & Kelly!)

Normal ups and downs to Mt McKinty, very rutted descent and then towards Mt Sunday. We had lunch in a little flat spot on the grass before Mt Sunday. So we packed out canned corned beef but so we didn’t have to carry the can I precut it into portion sizes and put it in ziplock bags and the cheese is the processed cheddar that you find on the supermarket shelf. These were necessary as we couldn’t put fresh cheese in our drop boxes.

Today we saw deer, more lyrebirds and robins and many beautiful wildflowers.

Mmm someone lost their gearbox
Fancy saucers 🤣
Relaxed coffee in the shade of our umbrellas

Took a wrong turn at Mt Sunday helipad clearing and walked around Mt Sunday adding about 4km to our day but the silver lining was that the road led directly to our campsite and we had an easy water pickup along the way. Low saddle has no water and a difficult pickup.

We arrived early into camp and enjoyed a lovely coffee sitting in the shade and then we set up and relaxed until dinner time.

Published by cuddlefi5h

Love life, adventure and a challenge. Our family mean the world to us. We have been married since 1984 together since 1979 when we were 15. We love spending time together and hiking, running, travelling, meeting new people and riding motorbikes. We want to be an example of how to grow old but not be seen as being old. We follow a low carb lifestyle and enjoy finding new recipes to experiment with.

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3 thoughts on “AAWT Day 7”

  1. I’m loving your blog. I’m finding that each blog I read on the AAWT is an almost completely different experience- it’s interesting to read what one person notices out there compared to another. (Your day 8 and 9 have not posted fyi). Enjoy your trip and thanks for sharing your journey.

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