We had been planning on a weekend tramp, but I was sick from Friday night through to Sunday morning. I slept over 23 hours in total. I blame the flu jab that I had earlier in the week for all of this!
By Sunday morning I was feeling better and a stretch of the legs was called for. We chose Mt Grey, the closest summit to us in the Canterbury Foothills.
We started from Lake Janet (more of a pond really) and despite dire warnings of a ‘no longer maintained’ trail, we found the going easy enough and made our way up through exotic forest to the summit ridge, complete with it’s oversized communications tower.
As the nearest summit to the ocean, Mt Grey commands a fantastic view along the Canterbury Coast as well as inland towards the Southern Alps. The only thing we couldn’t see was the Banks Peninsula, - it was covered by the only cloud in the sky the whole time we were there.
For the return trip we dropped off the side of the mountain, passing one other party on their way up. This time we were in Native Forest, there were plenty of wasps still about too. Halfway down we picked up the less used Bypass Track to cut back across the face of the hill and down to the car for lunch.
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