Alpine Double

Once the fence line was finished and Tom had left the building site for the day, the Dunedin lads hooned up the South Island to my place. We hatched a plan over some beers, then got an early start straight into four wheel drive mode, river crossings, boulder moving and general low box muntery.

There were plenty of other 4WDs out in the Alps for the long weekend, so we were soon onto plan “B” (if not further down the alphabet). By late morning we had only just shouldered packs but set sight on a few animals – three hinds grazing the edge of a scree slope. We split