I just got back from my attempt at walking around Ruapehu in a day . I'll slowly add more pictures but basically the mountain looked like this the day before - and on Friday ....



It's about 72 km around and wasn't going to let me off easy .
After 50km I drank bad river water at the hut , apart form the fact that I had double blisters under one toenail that lifted it out of its 'mountings' - I'm busy going through the helmetcam pictures now .