Canyon Road Dec 3

Today was mostly a pleasant walk with some overgrown and dead tree
strewn walking on the closed part of the Selwyn track to contend
with. The forest here is open but we had moderate shade. We left with
2.5 litres of water each because there was a water tank about halfway
along. When we got there the roof collector was blown off but luckily
there was enough water for us to get 3 litres each.
We left at 7AM and arrived at 2PM tired from the climbs and yesterday's tension!
1130m climb, 840m descent, 16 km traveled. About 1 km more with 50 m
down and back to get water

Barry Saddle Dec 2

I missed posting this so I'll wack it in here. It was on my phone but I guess I never emailed it to the blog!
We left camp at 7:30 and began the long steep climb up to the Viking. It was a steep track for the most part but the last 30 m of the climb was very steep up a gully in the cliff and was rock scrambling in part. And that was the easy cheat route! the official route requires climbing up a rock chimney, way beyond our capabilities.

Once up top the views were sensational. The track along the top was better than expected and we only lost it a couple of times. The route down the east side was equally steep and long. We were well out of our comfort zone several times today and were extremely glad to get off the Viking.

The rest of the walk was on reasonably good foot track through the bush. We got to Barry saddle about 2 PM so we did a repair job on Lee's pants (coming down off the Viking was a seat pants skid in part) and the tent.

525 m climb, 725 m descent, 6 km walked. Total to date, 187.6 km from Walhalla.