Hiking in Queenstown

We spent Sunday climbing up a steep wooded path that runs along a creek, up the mountain.
The hiking felt pleasantly strenuous and it was good getting out of our minds and worries and into our bodies again.
At the top of the hill we had a choice of continuing down the path back to town or taking a shorter trail that meets the gondola that operates from Queenstown.
We choice to have a coffee and then go down with the gondola.
We felt elated (as shown in the photos) not to have taken the gondola UP the mountain but climb the elevation (2600 feet in about an hour.)