Misadventures in the Mountains - Unplanned Solo Tarp Camp
A late start to this solo overnight trip made things interesting.
I headed up into the mountains onto an awesome ridgeline where I was joined by numerous cheeky Kea. With the daylight fading and the weather packing in, I decided to drop off the ridgeine that I was traversing, down into what I thought was the correct riverbed.
Making my way downstream in the dark, the stream starting to narrow into a bit of a gorge. I had to set up my tarp shelter amongst some trees, bluffed out on steep terrain. It snow in the night and I woke up to a beautiful, cold morning.
I scrambled back up onto the ridge where I hiked out the way I had come in.
It was a super fun trip and I learnt alot.
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