As mentioned in my Guyed wire post from Mount Difficulty, I feel I should share the photos from this challenging mountain before sharing other photos in my folders 📂 😀
Cromwell is a little over five hours' drive from Christchurch. The plan was to get up to the mountain and leave our trailer up there. So, with about 3 hours before it starts to get dark, we attempted driving up the mountain only to get stuck in less than 2km of ascending up the mountain.
It was a steep spot. We had to offload everything except our drum of cable to reduce the load capacity on the trailer before we managed to get it going.
Basically, 95% of our trailer content was offloaded and left on the side track, which we then loaded in our vehicles when we drove down to take them up the following morning.
So day 1 was not friendly at us. It was a challenge after the challenge on every single day that we were on Mount Difficulty. These photos are from day 2 when we actually commenced work on this mountain, though the views got me photographing the moments up there every now and then.