Since we were consistently doing better times than the proposed times given by the DOC (about 2/3 of proposed time), we decided to leave early, and gut the way to the Divide. Then call Nir and Nadav and have them not pick us up, instead just to meet in Te Anau. Anyway, we left as planned at precisely 9:00, and arrived to the Divide at 12:20, some 40 minutes earlier than we thought we would . Unfortunately, we didn't manage to hitchhike. After 1.5 hours of failed attempts we gave up. Also, there was no cell reception, which meant we couldn't communicate with the other folks. So, 13:50 was cutoff time. At that point we simply waited until 15:00. The weather was crap (rainy and cold), and my "fabulous" Merrel shoes were wet on the inside since 11:00 (I'll need to strangle the folks at REI for this). Anyway, there was a bus at 15:15, which put us in a dilemma, since the next bus didn't leave until 17:45, and we didn't know if something went screwy with the other team. We skipped the bus, and they showed up at 15:35 so were saved...
We stayed at the same place I stayed last time in Te Anau, which is pretty good and had the added bonus of increasing the chance of re-meeting some locals I've met before..
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