A trip to the mountains

Saturday, February 27, 2010

The excursion for the weekend was to the mountains. Arthur’s Pass is the summit if you are driving over “the Alps” to the west coast. You can supposedly drive from the east coast to the west coast in about four hours. We went about an hour and a half, as far as Cave Stream, which is a cave that goes through a hill, about an hour hike in water…in the dark. We were scoping it out for the CSU students but both admitted that we probably wouldn’t do it. I think those days are over for Jack and me. We did see some pretty country and they say the battle scene from “that witch movie” as Jack calls it (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe) was filmed somewhere in this area. There is also a train ride over the mountain to Greymouth which sounds like something we might try some time.
On our way to the mountain, we kind of got lost scoping things out but came across a wonderful river gorge which to me looked like “tubing paradise.” Jack and I thought this was the best find of the day.
We only traveled about an hour and a half from Lincoln but took a picnic. We want to go back to Lake Coleridge the next time and take the back way. It’s definitely on the agenda for another time.