Day walking out of Hamilton to the Kapamahunga ranges, very funny (for Johno anyway) when my foot got jammed in cow mud and nearly fell over getting it out, was very worried my shoe would be stuck in there and my foot would come out of it. Awesome views out of Pirongia and stayed at our first DOC hut (Pahautea Hut) 954m
since starting this walk. We had only walked for about 5 hours but couldnt pass up the opportunity and had been wet the day before so dried everything out in the sun and just chilled - awesome!!Boggy as ground coming down from the mountain and nearly had another couple of shoe suction actions again. Walked some back country roads with only about 1 car per 2 hours on them, makes you wander why
they are there. We were supposed to walk through Mahoe Forest down to Waitomo Caves but couldnt find the start of the track so ended up walking down the road (gravel back country one) for about 20km before picking up a bit of the Waitomo walkway and heading into the village for the night. Farm walked all the way to Te Kuiti where we are staying with Dan and Amanda and the kids for a few nights. Fantastic!!
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