Friday, March 14, 2008

Hiking in the Fitzroys



These are the photos from our time in the Fitzroy Range. We had a fantastic time camping for 5 days and doing some lazy hiking. The mountain range is absolutely spectacular, and we lucked out for most of the days with beautiful blue skies...
On day 4 as we made our way to camp the wind started to pick up, and the rain started to fall. And it didn't stop. So we spent a wet and windy night wondering if our belongings would fall out of the trees, or the tent would blow away.
Our stuff was hanging in the trees because we'd heard from other hikers that there is a 'mouse problem' at the Torre campground. Mice that like to eat backpacks and eat through your tent to get to your food, not very nice mice. So we hung everything in our backpacks from a line strung between two trees and covered it with bin liners to keep out the rain. I then spent the night listening to the pitter patter of little mice feet and the eek eek eek for little mice voices. We survived unscathed by mice, but wet with a soggy tent to pack up.

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