The Fourth Quarter and I went driving the other day. The kind where one of us goes ‘lets get out of the city’, and we get in the car and go. We didn’t really have a destination in mind when we started (I love these kind of drives), but when maybe an hour out of Auckland we saw a ‘Mt Auckland ->’ sign, we followed it. No questions asked.

It took us up a gravel road, what I think I was actually a logging track. Good for rally driving and views :)

Alas, when we got there we realised that we were (1) ill equipped for an hour and a half tramp (meaning I was in jeans and he was in jandals), (2) we’d timed it all wrong (by the time we’d got back it would be dark, and those ridge tramps aren’t lit by handy street lights) and (3), we’d brought Quinn (and there was a big ‘fuck off dogs’ sign).

So instead we clambered around the wood left by the foresters and enjoyed the sun and more pretty views!

While the day would have been better had it featured a tramp up to Mt Auckland, I think it was still a good day. And now we have a destination for another day where I’m sure we’ll be better prepared :)