After the steak/chicken dinner for all the A2O riders at the Ohau lodge last night several of us went outside to see the “super moon” rise. While watching we also saw a continuous line of over 20 of the SpaceX Starlink satellites going over.
The lodge served breakfast to us at 8 this morning, a little later then we would have preferred since rain was forecasted and we wanted to get going. Fortunately the rain never appeared and it turned out to be a very nice day. The lodge provided a packed lunch with a sandwich, apple and brownie type thing.
It was a rough and rocky climb up to the summit of today’s route but at the top a group was celebrating one of their riders birthday with a champagne toast. They later remarked the champagne may have been a bad idea as the downhill really required your full attention with very rocky trail and curved wooden bridges with no side rails. Did I mention the streams we had to ford. Hope my shoes dry by morning!