Day 5 - Mt. Cook

Rain, rain, rain…wind, sprinkles, more driving rain. We sat in the campervan reading most of the morning at the trail head waiting for a break in the weather. We decided after lunch that whatever type of weather there was, we were hitting the trail. The rain did not stop, so out we went in our rain gear and set out to Hooker Glacier terminal lake along the Hooker Valley Track. The trail was for the most part an easy climb, with a few bumpy patches that required some rock jumping. The 2 swing bridges were pretty cool, their own little engineering marvel. The track follows the Hooker River which had some raging white water. The water itself is also milky white due to the mineral deposits from the glacier. It was a long, wet hike, but the reward was worth it. It’s not very often the you see a glacier at one end of the lake and icebergs out in the middle of it.

In the grocery store, we stumbled across “Pull Apart Bacon Cheese Bread.” Matt is one of the ultimate bacon connoisseurs, so we had to try it for dinner. It did pull apart, however, it was neither cheesy nor bacony.