Routeburn-Greenstone Track, Day 5

Dave rolled his left ankle several times on the trip, and by the fifth day, every step hurt. On that last day, he had to walk 20 km with each step hurting, so he didn't take a lot of pictures. Now, four days later, he's still icing it and keeping it elevated as much as he can.

Routeburn-Greenstone Track, Day 4

Day 4 was mostly along the Greenstone River. Dave got to fish at the end of the day. He caught one fish, saw a lot of others, and said the fish were huge. Yes, those are cows in the first picture.

Routeburn-Greenstone Track, day 3

Okay, I give up. I can't seem to limit the photos of each day to only ten. I've picked 14 photos from day 3.

Routeburn-Greenstone Track, day 2

The photos from the second day are amazing. My goal was to pick the ten best from each day, but I found 16 that I just had to post.

Routeburn-Greenstone Track, Day 1

Dave just got back from a five day "great walk" -- 95 kilometers in five days, change in elevation 733 meters. (For my American readers, that's 59 miles and 2400 feet. 5 metric days = 5 American days. At least one thing is easy.) I'm going to post the best 10 photos for each of the five days.

The Routeburn track starts at the west end of Lake Wakatipu, the other end of the lake from Queenstown. The Greenstone track ends where the Greenstone River dumps into Lake Wakatipu, still near the end of the lake, but on the other side of the lake from Queenstown.

Here are some of the highlights of day one.