Spotted a good 24hr weather window so decided to have a crack at 5 passes in a day. Started around 2:50am and finished close to 11pm. Navigation in the dark was challenging in the lower Beans Burn which made it slow going. Upper Beans Burn has some difficult scrub bashing not long before you start exiting the valley towards Fohn Saddle. Rest of the nav was pretty straight forward. After spending hours under the inversion cloud in the morning once it burned off (close to the top of the Bean’s Burn) it was a beautiful sunny day. We took the pacing relatively easy until reaching Park Pass as we didn’t want to blow out of legs. Picked the pace up down the Rockburn to get as close to Sugarloaf as possible before losing the light. Gear wise we only took a small running pack each with minimal water as there’s plenty of access the entire way around. Had just enough food to last us but nothing more to minimise weight. Such a great day out in the mountains.
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Hey Adam and Jenny! Only just spotted now that you guys also did the route back in February, nice one!! Looks like a good day out. Well done on getting back before if got too dark, that was a hard slog for us over and down sugarloaf pass after midnight 😂