Our slightly extended trip means we were now into shorter days - for Dennis this was tramping day 29, and for me day 19, with our bodies complaining suitably about the last week of hard tramping.
Another fine day as we set off - for around half way to Middy Creek Hut the track was again narrow, sidling and slow, but eventually it improved as we joined first the junction to the Rocks Hut track, and then arrived at Middy Creek Hut for an early lunch in the sunshine.
I would not recommend that the Roebuck Hut route is the standard route - based on the comments from the ATC group we met, I would strongly recommend that other trampers do what they did, which is to go from Middy Creek Hut up to Rocks Hut, and th
en down again to Totara Saddle, not far from Browning Hut. Faster, more comfortable, and a chance for some good views on the tops around Rocks Hut (and even a side trip to Dun Mountain). The Roebuck to Totara Saddle section does not even have the benefit of river views.Anyway, a short hop from Middy Creek to Captains Creek Hut, and then a lazy afternoon in the sunshine by the beautiful deep green Pelorus River. More TA people arrived to share the hut with us that evening - only the second night out of 7 that we had company.
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