WOW, just WOW 😍 - the scenery in this video is beyond words, especially heading up to Gillespie Pass. But jeez... that track is steep and narrow!! Thanks for the video - keep posting your amazing experiences of hiking through New Zealand!!
Thankyou so much for watching! It was such a beautiful hike, we absolutely loved every minute of it, but yes there were definitely some steep sections😂 Well worth it for the view at the top though
Well that was A Special video of epic country, where to next, you have a fantastic appetite for the experience of special places in the backcountry, keep it up, much appreciated......
Aww, thankyou so much Robin💗 We've had a couple more chilled hikes recently, but are heading on the Pouakai Circuit at Taranaki tomorrow, which we're pretty excited about! Hoping the weather will hold out🤞🏼 Thankyou again for your comment, we really appreciate it🥰
Luuv.. your vids.. Looks an awfully nice track!! Perfect weather this week, just finished Cascade Saddle -Dart-Rees. Swimming in the Rees was just bliss. Cheers...
Aww thankyou so much💗 The weather has been incredible recently! So good!! And ah amazing, its such a beautiful route, especially with this weather, and the swimming! We literally did the exact same route over cascade just last week, it was so epic👏🏼
Beautiful. On the TA you guys seemed to stay in huts when you could. Curious why you chose to tent it. Hope you can repair the mesh. Those sand flies seem crazy 😬.
Thankyou for watching! We did use the hut system alot on trail, and we loved it! Only reason we don't do it so much now is due to our hut pass running out, and alot of the hut prices have gone up with us being in the hiking season, we do really enjoy camping though, especially now we don't do quite as much, and yes! The sandflies are insane at the moment!!
What a beautiful video !!!Thank you so much for sharing this one. I had been to the place before . Will you tell me about the camping sites? I heard that we can put up the tent just near the hut .But you did on the field , on the river . It is possible ? Thanks a lot from a Korean guys.
Aww thankyou so much💗 It's such a beautiful hike! You can definitely put your tent up near the huts, but normally DOC will charge you a small fee to camp there and use the hut facilities, but if you didn't want to do that, you can pretty much camp anywhere else along the trail, just not with in the Lake Crucible basin and I think on farm land🤔 But apart from that, we definitely prefer wild camping, just anywhere with flat ground really, hope this helps! Thankyou for your comment!
Thankyou so much for watching! It's such a beautiful place😍 And no, all the camping was totally free, you only need to pay for a pass, if you plan on staying in huts😊
I am so sorry for such a slow reply!! I can't fully remember our backpack weight for this exact trip, but it's usually around 8/9kg, and with gear we always try to stay as lightweight as possible for the most reasonable price, I'd definitely recommend taking a pack liner, to make sure everything in your bag stays dry, sandfly repellent is always good too, and probably some gaiters, to keep all the grass seeds etc out, and we also took a water filter too, hope this helps😊
We took 4 days of food/snacks, and about 2L of water each per day😊 Then we parked at the start of the Young Valley, there's a little car park there, saves walking the extra 1hr+ from Blue Pools
WOW, just WOW 😍 - the scenery in this video is beyond words, especially heading up to Gillespie Pass. But jeez... that track is steep and narrow!! Thanks for the video - keep posting your amazing experiences of hiking through New Zealand!!
Thankyou so much for watching! It was such a beautiful hike, we absolutely loved every minute of it, but yes there were definitely some steep sections😂 Well worth it for the view at the top though
This is a beautiful video, fantastically captured surroundings.
Aww thankyou so much! We really appreciate that💗
You both just add to the serenity of the mountains - beautiful video
Aww, thankyou so much Shaun💗
That's awfully nice scenery from the pass!!!
It was incredible😍 What a beautiful place!
@@ShelbyandJordan If a knee injury heals good, I'm hoping to do it in January!!
Praying for you that it does🥰 It's an epic trail, you'd love it!
Well that was A Special video of epic country, where to next, you have a fantastic appetite for the experience of special places in the backcountry, keep it up, much appreciated......
Aww, thankyou so much Robin💗 We've had a couple more chilled hikes recently, but are heading on the Pouakai Circuit at Taranaki tomorrow, which we're pretty excited about! Hoping the weather will hold out🤞🏼 Thankyou again for your comment, we really appreciate it🥰
Weather was awesome last few days when I was in Wanaka & Mt Aspirin national park last week
İ climb up to Mt Brewster
Mt shirmpton
Yessss, the weather has been amazing at the minute👏🏼 So good! I bet that was incredible, we absolutely loved Brewster, such a beautiful hike
Mount Shrimpton is the highest peak I've done.
Loved Mount Shrimpton.
@@gary55614 👌👌😊
Luuv.. your vids.. Looks an awfully nice track!! Perfect weather this week, just finished Cascade Saddle -Dart-Rees.
Swimming in the Rees was just bliss. Cheers...
Aww thankyou so much💗 The weather has been incredible recently! So good!! And ah amazing, its such a beautiful route, especially with this weather, and the swimming! We literally did the exact same route over cascade just last week, it was so epic👏🏼
@@ShelbyandJordan Wow!! That sure is a coincidence!!
i can recommend a tennis racket for the sand flies ;) . loved the bee close up.. Have to ask why you camp when there was a hut next to you xx
Hahah!! We definitely need one of the fly rackets😂 Pretty sure we camped because we hadn't camped in while, and it was cheaper, lol xx
Beautiful. On the TA you guys seemed to stay in huts when you could. Curious why you chose to tent it. Hope you can repair the mesh. Those sand flies seem crazy 😬.
Thankyou for watching! We did use the hut system alot on trail, and we loved it! Only reason we don't do it so much now is due to our hut pass running out, and alot of the hut prices have gone up with us being in the hiking season, we do really enjoy camping though, especially now we don't do quite as much, and yes! The sandflies are insane at the moment!!
What a beautiful video !!!Thank you so much for sharing this one. I had been to the place before . Will you tell me about the camping sites? I heard that we can put up the tent just near the hut .But you did on the field , on the river . It is possible ? Thanks a lot from a Korean guys.
Aww thankyou so much💗 It's such a beautiful hike! You can definitely put your tent up near the huts, but normally DOC will charge you a small fee to camp there and use the hut facilities, but if you didn't want to do that, you can pretty much camp anywhere else along the trail, just not with in the Lake Crucible basin and I think on farm land🤔 But apart from that, we definitely prefer wild camping, just anywhere with flat ground really, hope this helps! Thankyou for your comment!
Thanks for sharing. This is EPIC! Wondering if you need to pay for wild camping?
Thankyou so much for watching! It's such a beautiful place😍 And no, all the camping was totally free, you only need to pay for a pass, if you plan on staying in huts😊
can u tell us what your total backpack weight was and any gear u recommend
I am so sorry for such a slow reply!! I can't fully remember our backpack weight for this exact trip, but it's usually around 8/9kg, and with gear we always try to stay as lightweight as possible for the most reasonable price, I'd definitely recommend taking a pack liner, to make sure everything in your bag stays dry, sandfly repellent is always good too, and probably some gaiters, to keep all the grass seeds etc out, and we also took a water filter too, hope this helps😊
How much food and water did you guys take ...
And where did you park ur car ???
We took 4 days of food/snacks, and about 2L of water each per day😊 Then we parked at the start of the Young Valley, there's a little car park there, saves walking the extra 1hr+ from Blue Pools
@@ShelbyandJordan awesome thank you 😊