This Past weekend, Mike Waters and I undertook an adventure of a lifetime. "In 1908, a British newspaper article named the Milford Track "the finest walk in the world," based on the reports of a poet named Blanche Edith Baughan. Baughan wrote about hundreds of waterfalls crashing down steep-sided valleys and the power of a Fiordland storm. The moniker stuck. " -GORP.com There is nothing else but that this was in fact the best hike I have done thus far in New Zealand. We took a different approach than most people. Instead of taking a ferry to the begining of the track, we crossed Dore's Pass and we were rewarded with some of the most spectacular views that people hiking the Milford Track never get to see. The first picture is from the top of Dore's Pass looking down onto Lake Te Anau on the left, and the Clinton River Valley on the right. Most people ferry across Lake Te Anau and begin the Milford which parallels the Clinton River through the valley.
The hike was incredible and for the most part indescribable. There were hundreds of waterfalls and towering mountains. The track ends in Milford Sound, and is ample reward for the 33 mile hike. In the second picture, I am pointing up at Mitre Peak from the ferry we took over to Milford. I have e-mailed out some of my other pictures, if you would like some more photos feel free to e-mail me.
