The second day was 10.3 miles of a gradual climb to Mintaro Hut, estimated as a six hour hike and it took us 9 hours. As we ate our dehydrated backpacker meal, we saw families with creative pasta meals and nicely planned lunches. We had such a nice group - two young couples from Israel, a family with two young sons and one with two young daughters, a retired physician and his wife from North Carolina in their late 60's, another physician who has connective tissue disease who has hiked Kilimanjaro and the Appalachian Trail with her friend who is a dentist, several young couples from Australia and New Zealand - and a group of Kiwi's who must have been in their late 70's who completely outpaced us.
This is one of the lovely families we met,
Chris and Pauline and their beautiful daughters Michele and Caroline, from the Nelson area of New Zealand. Those girls never whined once.
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