I'm down in Hawke's Bay now for some more golf and wine drinking. And luckily, the place I'm staying has Wi-Fi so I can upload a few more pictures from the more treacherous spots of the day hike.
Most of these areas I started out with my camera but soon found out I might need two hands if I started to slide.
Without much ado, more pictures.
This was the start of the day at 7am. As soon as light broke, I was off.
This was my return trip from Blue Lake. I didn't look this steep as I was coming down. If you zoom in (or look closely) you can see people at the top. Yes, those are people. And I had to go up to get back to my car.
This was the start of Mount Doom. There wasn't a marked route here, so I tried to follow that group ahead. At times, I wanted to tell at them to find a more direct route. But was too exhausted.
This was where I started to get outside my comfort zone. Keeping my footing in running shoes wasn't the easiest and I was flat tired at that point. But then I looked down and realized there was no easy way down.
At the end of the day, in glad I got up early to get a parking spot in the car park and not on the street an extra 2k away. The night ended with a pretty spectacular sunset over the city.
More on the golfing tomorrow. After I recover from today's mentally draining round.
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