My goal to walk 7 trails today was reduced to one because i slept in, and by the time i got going it was nearly 11am...oh well. I drove out to the campground which is the start of the Hooker trail and look at the view from the carpark, stunning.
I am so stylish. 5 mins into the walk i came across the memorial to all the people who have died climbing Mt Cook, there is a lot of them.
This is an idea of the terrain that i had for the walk, not hard going, only a few steep bits but very rocky and gravely, you had to watch the ground and not the scenery or you would trip which i did a lot.
This was the first of 2 swing bridges. I try to time it so that I'm the only one on the bridge because with 2 it really does swing which i don't like.
This was the 2nd swing bridge further up the trail, the path clung to the cliff.
About this point i heard a man behind me say " are we there yet " his kids told him to cut it out, so funny.
We had a board walk for a little of the way but i found this harder to walk on because my boots kept catching on the gap between the planks and i would trip.
this is a hut that the hikers who over night use, there are lots throughout the park
It's right beside a lovely creek.
The path got very narrow at times.....it cant be far now !
and there it was, ice bergs and lots of them, all different sizes.
they were floating on the murky water under a blue sky and it just looked really strange.
some floated close to the bank and we could touch them. they felt like.....ice
the glacier covered in moraine. This is a different one to the one i saw yesterday even though they look similar.
the walk up here was hot in the valley but when the path climbed up we got a lovely cold wind
my boot on a piece of glacier ice.
i ate my sandwich here and lingered for about an hour then noticed that the weather was changing so i headed back. I left at 11am and got back to the car at 3.30pm. My left heel is painful but other than that i had a gorgeous day.
My goal to walk 7 trails today was reduced to one because i slept in, and by the time i got going it was nearly 11am...oh well. I drove out to the campground which is the start of the Hooker trail and look at the view from the carpark, stunning.
I am so stylish. 5 mins into the walk i came across the memorial to all the people who have died climbing Mt Cook, there is a lot of them. 
This is an idea of the terrain that i had for the walk, not hard going, only a few steep bits but very rocky and gravely, you had to watch the ground and not the scenery or you would trip which i did a lot.
This was the first of 2 swing bridges. I try to time it so that I'm the only one on the bridge because with 2 it really does swing which i don't like.
This was the 2nd swing bridge further up the trail, the path clung to the cliff.
About this point i heard a man behind me say " are we there yet " his kids told him to cut it out, so funny.
We had a board walk for a little of the way but i found this harder to walk on because my boots kept catching on the gap between the planks and i would trip. 
this is a hut that the hikers who over night use, there are lots throughout the park
It's right beside a lovely creek.
The path got very narrow at times.....it cant be far now !
and there it was, ice bergs and lots of them, all different sizes.
they were floating on the murky water under a blue sky and it just looked really strange.
some floated close to the bank and we could touch them. they felt like.....ice
the glacier covered in moraine. This is a different one to the one i saw yesterday even though they look similar.
the walk up here was hot in the valley but when the path climbed up we got a lovely cold wind
my boot on a piece of glacier ice.
i ate my sandwich here and lingered for about an hour then noticed that the weather was changing so i headed back. I left at 11am and got back to the car at 3.30pm. My left heel is painful but other than that i had a gorgeous day.
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