Again we got off to a good start with a departure from Omarama at 7:30 AM for our drive to Mt Cook. Unfortunately it was kind of wet and the mountains were shrouded in cloud so we didn't get to see Mt Cook (a good reason for the Aussies to come back). It was quite cool at about 7 degrees when we headed off to the Mt Cook Airport 7 km away where there happened to be a helicopter ferrying people across the river and we didn't have too much of a wait. We had thought we needed to rent the chopper by the flight (five people) which didn't work out too good for our party of eight, however it turned out it they were happy on a per person basis ($180). Flying in helicopters is always such fun even in this case where it was literally only in the air for maybe five minutes. We had two flights with riders and then needed to wait for another flight that carried our bikes across.
Once the bikes were reunited with us we soon got underway and had an enjoyable ride down to Twizel following the edge of Lake Pukakai. The thing that sets today apart from the others is that the weather changed many times while we were on the ride from cold rain, to no rain to a tiny period of weak sun to a brief hail storm - all this had me either taking layers off or putting them on.
Not too many photos again as I am doing more GoPro footage so at some time in the future I will have a little film of the trail I'm riding (something more to learn).
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