A great day today as Old Boy Jeff East led the boys across the 17km Tongariro Crossing. The boys ventured through moonscape plains, over steep mountains, past sulphurous gases and lakes, past tramping huts, before heading to the 41° Tokaanu Thermal Pools.
The boys were excited as we walked past the desolate and striking Mt Ngauruhoe – you might know it as Mt Doom from The Lord of the Rings trilogy (we even found a Hobbit with the ring!). Craters of past eruptions were filled with brilliant blue water. Jeff told us these eruptions, some sending plumes of ash 13 km into the air, and coating nearby Lake Taupo in 5cm of ash.
It was a tough trek, but it just meant that we really enjoyed the soak in the pools when we got down. Some of the boys rated the following as the highlights of the walk :-
Alistair – all the views
Ben A – the finish; knowing you’d done it
Jack – sliding down the loose scree
Josh – dragging Leo the mascot up hill and down dale
Jacob – the big lake where we had lunch
The boys produced a great BBQ dinner for us all tonight – steak, snags, pasta and salad – so mums, get them in the kitchen when they get home.
Fishing and training tomorrow – we’ll happily tell you some fishing tales tomorrow.
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