By Ruth

Distance: 26 km

After the dramatic ups and downs of the past couple days, today’s walk was pretty flat. We started in a river valley, and continued in that valley almost the whole day. Still, the views were gorgeous as we walked down the valley and different mountain views opened up as we went.

Despite the beautiful weather, easy walking, and great views, we were both feeling a bit tired the whole day, and I was counting the minutes between breaks from walking.

The breaks were great though. Elliot got a swim in a stream, we met some ladies on horseback, ate lots of food (we brought lots of extra provisions on this section), and generally enjoyed the scenery.

At the end of the day we arrived at Anne hut, a beautiful big hut set out in the middle of a meadow. Tomorrow is supposed to be rainy, so we were half thinking of going further than this hut this afternoon in order to shorten the bad weather walking tomorrow. But we were so happy to arrive and be done with the walk today, that we decided we will just deal with what the sky dishes out tomorrow. And if it’s really bad, we can always wait in the hut – we are getting good at that!