This was very much the wrong day and even though when I was up there I said that'll be my last one, I'm not having that as my last day of the season! Today was crap because:
- Yesterday was perfect blue skies, very warm and all-round perfect.
I, on the other hand, was hungover and unable to drive up there. Gutted. - Today was cloudy and miserable, even though it was trying to snow a bit.
- The Remarks road has fallen apart. They've given up on it by the looks of things, so it's back to avoiding boulders, craters and stopping the back end sliding all over the place
- I seemed to be destined to injure myself, taking at least 5 fairly big stacks today.
- Alan was on my case
- There was barely anyone up there (ok, that would have been a good thing if it was good weather)
- I got back down and got an email with potential bad news about my business (believe it or not I am doing a hell of a lot of work at the same time as all this playing)
Moan, moan, moan. It could be worse, I could be living somewhere where I couldn't go to the mountains within 20 minutes. True. There are bad days here and there.
Spring vs Winter - who wins? Tough one that. Still not got back on my bike, cos I reckon that'll spell the end of winter for me. Did a great hike t'other day though and back to my favourite place round here - Glenorchy. It's like the end of the world down there. Perfect, unspoilt, remote, mountains all around and one of the best roads in the world to get there. There's only one place past Glenorchy and that's called Paradise. We didn't quite make it though cos didn't look like our car would make it across the river crossing. Close enuf tho. Loads more pics to put up, must get round to doing that then.
Got an avalanche awareness course to go on 2nite and 2moro...thought it was about time I found out about these things and how to avoid them.
Au revoir for now
Mr Sloth
