Training Log Archive: slow-twitch

Very cruisey day - nothing to clear from the possum traps so just the remainder of the rat traps to check

Mainly checking rat traps, starting from the south end of the line and working back. Got well over halfway before it got to the time I was going to call it a day. Actually saw people today.

Big day (out over 9hrs, but stop-start). One leg-hold trap to clear, not too far from the hut, then finishing off yesterday's bait bagging (river still cold), then checking the bastard end of the perimeter trap line - up a mixture of scree and scrub to Cattle Ridge - there was a track here once but it was long overgrown until we came along to install the traps. Just to make the scrabbly section even tougher, just about every trap either had a possum or had sprung off, no chance of getting any momentum up!

Filling in for a few days on the Orongorongo project again. Walk into OVFS from Catchpool, 1 leg-hold to clear about a km down the trapline, then heading down the opposite side of the riverbed laying out little bags of bait with marker dye every 20m (if there was any veg to attach them to). In and out of the river quite a bit which was cold enough the legs were getting a bit wobbly towards the end.

Wainui Rec Area, checking remaining tracking tunnels and a fair bit of packhorsing to collect up the caches I'd left on Sunday