Yesterday arvo Tom and I headed up to Square Rock for a quick hike. It’s probably only 5 kms walk, which isn’t far, but given that we only decided to go for a hike at about 3pm it was far enough. We walked over to Square Rock around sunset, but we ended up camping on the other side of the ridge, looking over Orroral valley.

I wanted to try out sleeping under just a little green fly, the idea being to be able to travel lighter. It was a resounding sucesss, although if it had rained I might be telling a different story. It had the pleasant side effect that I woke up well before the sunrise.

It was remarkably cold for Februrary, although I was sleeping outside at 1450 metres. It warmed up a bit about 10am. After a seriously solid breakfast of muesli we strolled back down to the car. And I was home Northside by 1pm, with plenty of Sunday to spare.