New Zealand at Last! Kepler Track/Photo Album:2

After months of planning and many visits with friends and family all over the east coast we are finally well under way in New Zealand! For our friends and family to follow along we've established this blog to share our adventures and photos with you all.














Our first big adventure was the 70 km Kepler Track, a 3 night 4 day hike billed as one of New Zealands 7 'Great Walks'. The Great Walks are a bit more expensive but include huts to stay in, not heated but provided with gas stoves and mattresses so there's much less weight to carry. The Kepler Track, which you can see a complete description of at (http://www.doc.govt.nz/ -search 'Kepler Track') included forest tramping as well as an Alpine Pass crossing.





We did bring a tent and used it one night, this saved us about 55$, but we decided it wasn't really worth it since we both carried a good bit of extra weight between sleeping pads and the tent. The Tramp (NZ for hike) was awesome, a good slug up and some amazing views, then some more forest walking, hopefully the pictures will give you an idea!
There should be another group of Kepler Pictures under the archives, check them out, they only get better!!