Thursday, April 14, 2011

The Pinnacles

Tired, up at the top
The Pinnacles hike is possibly the coolest thing I have done in New Zealand so far. It is a major hike that I have wanted to for a couple weeks and then another au pair, Katharina wanted to do it so we got a group if girls together and drove the two hours to Thames to climb up to the Pinnacles. The Pinnacles is a Mountain Summit that took us 4 hours to climb to the top and 2.5 hours to get back down. The view was absolutely amazing and the sense of accomplishment was awesome! I will definitely be doing some more major hikes throughout my time here!! I went with 3 German au pairs, Katharina, Mareike, Feli and the Canadian au pair Paige that I will be going to Queenstown with!!



one of the swing bridges that we had to cross

Almost there!!

so Beautiful!!

There were stairs, ladders and medal bars in the most difficult parts, if only those luxuries were on the entire trail!

Pretty much terrified at this point!

The View, with the ocean in the back

Mareike, myself, Paige, Feli and Katharina

@ the L&P bottle in Paeroa on the way (L&P is a famous NZ soft drink)

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