Knob Flats Campground Day 9-10

We woke up to a beautiful morning at  Knob Flats, the rain finally moved on. It was going to be a beautiful sunny day.

First stop was  at  the Earl Mountain Track and a river crossing over a single strand wire bridge with a short hike to a waterfall. I have never seen another bridge like it but it worked just fine.

Of course you have to bounce up and down on it some to get the full effect.

This was the excellent view from our parking spot.

The next stop was at The Divide, where the Routeburn track meets with the Keye Summit Track. We were heading up to Keye Summit.

The weather was warming up from the 5 degrees C last night and it was already 11C. Layers started to peel off.

The regular trail ended but the Frenzy Book told us to keep on going out past the marsh on a little used path.

It kept going and going and sort of petered out, but we kept going because it was too peaceful and gorgeous to stop. And the weather was absolutely perfect.

Hard to believe the beauty, isn’t it?

We were about three and a half hours in by now and it just kept getting better.

There were alpine plants and marshes way up there. We had climbed 1750 feet from the beginning of the trail. no body else was up there but us.

This is looking Northeast down from our unnamed  track.

This was near the top towards the North West.

The different hues in the water indicate glacial melt the closer turquoise cloudy lake, and rain catchment of the clearer, darker color.

There were these shallow, clear, warmish pools on the upper tundra that looked like a good place to see frogs, but we didn’t see any. Little early maybe.

How could you NOT follow this trail? It called to us.

We ate our lunch and soaked up a few rays and finally headed back down the trail,only because there is so much we want to see here. If you ever go you have got to do this trail out beyond Keye Summit.

Next post will be closer to Milford.

-Wendy Lee, writing at edgewisewoods