Awesome Australian Adventure A mechanical solution to an electrical problem.

it must be destroyed.

So yesterday we hiked Mount Doom! Doom! Doom!

this Ben climbing up the last 50m of Mt. Mount Ngauruhoe. He really, really needs a haircut.

It's not actually mount doom, it's only the mountain they used as a base for the CGI confection that served as Mt. Doom in the Lord of the Rings series. That being said, we hiked the Tongariro Crossing, a 19km day hike involving volcanoes, steam vents, fire (water), brimstone (sulfur vents). The hike only around a thousand meters of vertical gain, but what they don't tell you is that it involved at least 3000000 m vertical gain AND drop. It was intense.

Mt. Doom

That being said, that didn't stop DC from running up at at least three times our speed.

DC climbs a bit faster than we do. This is about 30 seconds into the hike.

Anyways, we encountered some spectacular views that had us all humming LOTR themes. At some point, we realized that we had actually left the ring at the hostel (silly, we know, especially considering it will continue the hold evil has on this planet). Oh well.

Anyways, that didn't stop us from re-enacting the movies in as many ways as possible. First up, we have:

Gollum fishes for fishies.

Also,

matt contemplates the enormity of the task of destroying the ring. while wearing sunglasses.

We were thoroughly surprised by this signpost in the middle of Mordor (Mt. Ngauruhoe is in the background. We were on top of the crater earlier that day):

you would think that evil would not be nearly this helpful. you might be surprised.

Anyways, the fellowship remains unbroken:

Hey look! Marvin! is in this picture. He was there over the course of the whole hike, RIGHT BEHIND YOU!!!!!

We drive to Rotorua today for some zorbing, biking, hot springs, and EXTREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEME(sp?)

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