Te Anau
When I was staying at the hostel in Milford Sound I met Laura and Stuart from Eyr in Scotland who were also planning on doing some hiking around Te Anua, so I told them about the Keplar trail that Mel had told me about and we decided to do part of the hike. The full Keplar trail is about a 4 day hike with 3 mountain hut along the way that you can stay in, but this time of year it gets really icy past the first hut so after checking the weather forecast a few times in the DOC centre in Te Anau, we decided to hikeup to the first hut, spend the night and hike back down. I was really excited my first multi day hike and I've been wanting to do one scince I was 12! We packed our bags and set off on our adventure carrying all our gear. It was a really cool hike, but its hard work carrying those packs, I think I'm going to wait till the summer before doing my next one and hopefully I won't have to carry so much gear. The trail is really good, you start by going along the shore of Lake Te Anau before hiking up through a thick rainforest and then by the end of the afternoon you pop out through the top of the tree line and all the green ferns are replaced by white snow. I heard the sunrise from the top is meant to be spectacular so I got up early to watch, its was freezing cold and the old wood burner stove was tiny, but it was worth it and one of the best ways to start a day
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