I was so right not to trust my tent. During the night it didn’t seem to leak, but in the morning I could see water droplets covering my mosquito net. Although it drizzled on and off it shouldn’t leak through my tent. So I definitely need to sleep in huts. I also didn’t sleep well. An ongoing theme recently. So I slept till 7:15.
As the trail was wet and slippery, I took it really slow. Not, however, according to strava, I walked at a pace of 5,6km/h and did 6km. As the total distance to the me hit was 5.5km, I knew it was wrong. Unfortunately.
The trail is gorgeous, but I wasn’t enjoying it very much. Annoyed by my tent, the only and off drizzle and the slippery-ness.
During lunch I laid my tent outside to dry and hid in the Midi Creek hut against the sandflies, I didn’t realise it started to rain. So my tent was actually wetter.
After this hut, it’s a 600m climb. I remember from last time that it wasn’t too bad. But this time I struggled, but ultimately made it.
In the hut were already 4 others (3 none-TA hikers ) and 4 others came in after me (all TA hikers). It was great and made for a happy ending of the day. Now see if I can sleep while my neighbor is snoring away. He did hike in vodka, so I can’t be too mad about it.
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