A cold clear morning, with the sun taking a good couple of hours to reach me in the Deception River valley. Slow going on rough tracks, almost always close to the river, with
a number of river crossings throughout the day - getting easier the further I travelled upstream.A really lovely valley, with the rushing Deception River always providing a real picture to enjoy. A few marked sections in the bush, and rock cairns recommending river crossings, etc, so mostly easy to find the best route to follow.
The Deception - Goat Pass - Mingha route is the mountain running section of the Coast to Coast race that occurs around March each year, with the fastest runners taking an amazing 3 to 4 hours for the whole route. So I was duly passed by 4 runners in training during the day ... each to our own mode of travel !
Near the end the trail left the main river and headed up, mostly in, a side stream to the Goat Pass Hut, just a few minutes below the pass itself. The blue sky that was present for most of the day was replaced by high cloud and a cool breeze in the evening, but it was still a great time to get up onto the pass itself for a look around.
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