Second hiking trip, part 1

This time, Victor, Jakub (Czech), Alex (F), Roman (Slovak), Liar (ESP), Shabby (ESP) and I went to Mt. Cook. The journey started on Thursday, when we went to Small Planet to rent crampons and axes. We had asked the day before and wanted now to pick them up, but unfortunately it wasn’t possible! They’ll film a commercial at the weekend, so they didn’t want to rent any equipment. Disappointed, we went back to school and looked for a store in Mt. Cook village, found it and called. The only problem now was that we had to be there before half past four, because the shop is closed by then.
On Friday, we went to school with our stuff and left it at twelve to catch the next bus to the airport. There we picked up the keys and started our drive to Mt. Cook village. At four o’clock we arrived there just in time to get our stuff. After we had signed in for the hut we drove to Mt. Cook Lodge, where we stayed this night. It cost 33 bucks, which was good because this accommodation is something between backpacker and hotel: It has a customer kitchen and you could have a random room mate, but it also has a bar (with beer) and each room has its own bathroom.
Shabby and Liar had to go to Dunedin to pick up their exam results and they would join us tomorrow at the hut.
We got up at six, ate toast bread with Nutella and drove to the car park. There we looked for the beginning of our track and started finally at seven o’clock. A steep, tiny way leads up to the top of this mountain range…