DRAFT: Mt cook

Tram to muller hut

• Katie met Canadian neighbors
• walked up with them
• tons of steps a little bit of a scramble
• world’s largest picnic table
• seeing mt cook peak out of the clouds
• dozens of avalanches on the mnt next to the one we were climbing
• paraglider doing flips right above the trail

Tam to hooker lake

• on and off rain
• suspension bridge crossings
• floating ice
• chuncks would fall off with load cracks Canadian geese

Stargazing

• tours started at 12:35
• top of mt John
• drove up first with headlights, then only yellow fog lights and then without any lights
• 15.5 inch telescope in a dome
• two 9in on tripods
• wind chill temp was -3 C
• got extreme cold jackets
• naked eye tour
  • navigation with the southern cross and the southern void
  • alpha Centauri and beta Centauri Orion was upside down - belt is teapot/ shopping trolly
• telescopes
• Jupier and 4moons
• Saturn
• a star cluster unseen by the naked eye
• tarantula nebula
• Orion Nebula

• a cluster of 1 million stars

• tons of satellites and shooting stars
• ended the tour with a bright blue shooting star that went 10 degrees across the sky