Day 43 and time for a marathon adventure. We are in Mount Cook, and happily the lady who checked us in to the Youth Hostel knew some local running routes...so we stuck some together to make a marathon - it was tremendous and my favourite run so far! We ran up the Hooker valley all along a wonderful stone track, over swing bridges, and marvelling at the mountains around. The path ends at Hooker Lake with mind blowing views of Mount Cook and the surrounding peaks. The Hooker Glacier is melting into the lake, so that there are icebergs (my first time to see an iceberg)....
We saw giant Mount Cook Buttercups...
...and a helicopter flying back and forth up the valley emptying the mountain loo!
We ran back down the valley to Mount Cook Village, then on down the valley on the Alps 2 Ocean cycle route, to the airport, back to the village, and then another airport loop.
The weather was fantastic, baking hot in the valley. Apparently, this kind of weather is unusual for the season- but the morning of the day we arrived it suddenly got really hot, it was beautiful the whole time we were there, and then the morning we left it was raining. Strange how sometimes things just all work out at the right moment. It was an amazing run - one I will never forget!
And, I've learnt the Māori word for 'hill', which is going to be incredibly easy to remember....
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