Before driving north to Mt. Cook (tallest mountain in NZ) national park, we had to figure out our flag situation. The plan was to have the flag up on the top of the mountain, however, the package my parents sent me, which included a flag, was not yet in my possession. So, we decided to make our own flag (much like the good old soldiers in Eilat in 1949). To this end we stole a pillow case from the backpacker (it's ok, they didn't let us use the USB), we bought paint and there it was a little while later: a self made Israeli flag. Turned out pretty good too..
and headed up to Muller Hut. The walk is about 2km long (so the DOC claims) and gains about 1km in altitude. So it's pretty damn steep. The plan was to get up there (spend the night there of course) and cook a good gullash dinner (more details about this). It took a few hours to get up, at which point it started getting a bit cold (we started the whole thing rather late at 13:30).
The view from the hut was splendid! All around there were snowy mountains. Quite breath taking. Furthermore, there were avalanches happening all the time on the nearby mountain, which sounded like thunders and it was quite spectacular to view them.
Dinner was not as we expected. As it turned out Ben forgot to bring the meat. So much for gullash. What was also bad, was the fact that the bread was molded (I'm still not clear on how this happened), and along with the meat was the peanut butter. I was planning on brining beans, but decided not too, as I figured we had enough food... So we ended up eating rice, which ended up being burned. Not the best meal to say the least.
At the hut there were a total of about 12 people including us. Among them 2 Israelis, 2 Dutch, a Kiwi, and a few other folks.
We went to bed rather early (22:30) so as to be able to wake up early and catch the sunrise.
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