I am Aragorn! (Ok, maybe Gimli)

Our current locale (wanaka) continuously reminds me of LOTR - specifically the first half of the second movie (god i just need to read the books) -- you (LOTR nerds) know the part, when Aragon, Gimli and Orlando Bloom are tracking Mary and Pippin? ok, a picture is worth a thousand words:



See that peak up there, far in the distance? That's where Dad and I (and a bunch of other people, including a Penn guy, believe it or not) hiked to (and back, obviously) today. It was a good trek - quite steep but on open, grassy path. The main issue was one of shit, literally. The path went through sheep pastures, who left little poos ALL OVER the path (sorry about the caps but they were necessary).

It was fun to have the sheep around -- it because a game of where's waldo? but with sheep. here, you play!



Anyways, the hike was good. At the summit we had a 360 degree view - mountains, mountains, snow-capped mountains, lake, cute town, mountains. It's a hard life, this traveling.


View from the summit (one of them)