Hiking Mt Roland

Hello!!
Its early afternoon and I am happily in my nightie doing pretty much nothing. Got the fire going so all is right, so far, in my little world today 🙂

Just dropping by to share some photos of the hike we did up Mt Roland.
I am still feeling several aches from our day!!

We really picked a beautiful day to head out there!

Icy icy…

I think ice can be so pretty…. just adds an extra element of being cautious when hiking though.

Basically I had my camera away until we reached the first rest point – I was feeling the pinch of the ‘upness’
Then had to tell myself off a bit – no point carrying a kilo of camera up if you are going to leave it in the bag!

I took lots of ice photos at first because I was all excited about it haha

Stopping to look up every now and again was nice too!

This time, lots of time was spent looking at the ground for safety reasons!

Can’t get a better winters day hey? And no wind!! Bonus!

I think if I had known about the ice I would have grabbed Jeff’s old hiking poles. I am not good with poles and the idea of carrying them irritates me – but the extra stability on days like this would be a huge advantage.
Jeff took up with the poles because of his knees (and his ability to fall over on a flat surface) and has found them brilliant

Going up I need to stop a lot!! Still, was nice to take the time to pause and enjoy the ever widening views

End of the trek coming up into view!
With a few obstacles…

I admit I had to go cross country a couple of times!

I even got ahead of Jeff at one point!

Interesting pinkish colour to the rocks up here

This is the bit where we have to boulder-scramble to get to the trig point

Clouds were half rolling in but we still got some gorgeous views!

I was having trouble with the connections with my lens on the camera – not cool getting to this point and the camera not working!!
Then I accidentally got a photo of Jeff…

😀
Once I got it working again I managed to get a ‘couple selfie’

The sun was so bright – for me it was more of a squinty not a selfie…

Time to carefully boulder hop down

I had the camera packed up for most of the downhill hike… it was a challenge with the ice, but apart from a couple of slides/stumbles, neither of us fell down! Once past the icy tracks we had to pick up the pace as winter means the sun disappears quite early.
I did have to stop and get a snap of the pretty greenery though…

And not that you can in anyway tell how big Mt Roland is from this spot – but here it is, bathed in a winter sunset!

So – That was our trek! So great to get out on a ‘real’ hike. Not just one for the sake of exercise.
I better go get dressed – I think there is some shopping to do and a visit to the post office. I probably want to collect some more firewood before it decides to rain again!!

Take care everyone!
Cheers