{"id":289,"date":"2026-01-19T23:55:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T23:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loudonweb.com\/ta\/?p=289"},"modified":"2026-04-24T04:01:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:01:22","slug":"day-20-easy-walking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loudonweb.com\/ta\/2026\/01\/19\/day-20-easy-walking\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 20, Easy walking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

January 19, 2026
near Waiau Hut to south of Anne Hut
TA km marker 2053.3 to 2084.2
Hiked today: 30.9 km<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It turned out that we were quite close to Waiau Hut and after packing up our tent we headed there for breakfast. At the hut, we heard that there were 2 families who had stayed at the hut. One is a family of six hiking the TA. The 4 children ranged in age from 7 to 15 yrs and their mum said that even the youngest one handled the Waiau Pass really well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Waiau Hut <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The path then followed beside a river and remained fairly flat, crossing creeks and rivers quite frequently, and often wound through muddy marshlands. We generally struck mud just after fording a lovely clear river or creek! The morning started cold and clear and it was after 8.30 when the first rays of sun appeared from above the mountains to warm us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The next hut – Anne Hut – was about 26 km from Waiau Hut, so our lunch spot was on some flat grass near a couple of trees in a meadow. We have enjoyed the views of mountains as we wended our way along the river valley. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We enjoyed lovely cool weather, and made good progress, allowing us to push on a few kms beyond Ann Hut. It was a shame to leave the hut which was quite new and had plenty of room, but we want to get along a bit further so that we can get to the road tomorrow afternoon in time to hitch a ride into Hanmer Springs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As it turned out, Pete, who was leading the way, pointed out 2 deer by the creek, and a little further on, a wild pig, all of which were startled and moved quickly away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"January 19, 2026near Waiau Hut to south of Anne HutTA km marker 2053.3 to 2084.2Hiked today: 30.9 km It turned out that we were quite close to Waiau Hut and after packing up our tent we headed there for breakfast. At the hut, we heard that there were 2 families…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/loudonweb.com\/ta\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/10000201416475589049679276522.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudonweb.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudonweb.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudonweb.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudonweb.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudonweb.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/loudonweb.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363,"href":"https:\/\/loudonweb.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudonweb.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudonweb.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudonweb.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudonweb.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}