Waterfall Hut to Windermere Hut

Fantastic light on this day, but thats probably ’cause it was raining on and off with the occasional bit of sleet and sidewards rain 🙂 The wet trees looked fantastic and reminded me very much of the snow gums in Kosi.

Gerry’s hot tips for the rain, take kitchen rubber gloves to go over your normal gloves, get the ones with long gauntlets and then use a rubber band to lock these over your raincoat sleeves, thus preventing water from running into your sleeve and wetting your inner layer, which when using hiking poles is a problem since your arms are up and down all the time.

We used the sealskinz gloves which are pretty good, definitely not waterproof since they do wet out after several hours of rain, however on the positive note, with the merino wool your fingers stay pretty warm even when wet. There are probably better gloves out there, but its always a compromise between dexterity, weight and warm/waterproofing, I think pairing these with the kitchen gloves would be perfect solution.

Ya’all be pleased to know that I only fell off the boardwalk once on this day, taking a photo of course 🙂

Camera dried out mostly then got completely wet again 🙂 you may notice that the local wildlife was also soaked, which did make me feel somewhat better as my toes and hands were wet from the moment we left the hut.

Some highlights form Day 2 – these exclude the side trip to Lake Will which was a bit windy and a bit more of the wet.