We slept in a bed and breakfast in Sainte Rose and left for the trailhead on April 29 with 3.5 liters of water.
We loved the trail and were at the first hut at lunchtime. There we filtered the water that was in the tank.
We decided to walk a little bit further and around 17:00 we hung our rainfly and hammock. We just had the setup as the pouring rain started. We slept well and dry although somewhat cold. At 6 in the morning we went to hut 2, but although we had already walked some kilometers of this section the day before, it took us until 17:00 to reach the next hut. We then knew that we walked slower than you guys.
We slept in the hut and started section 3 the next morning. We loved this section and till lunch the path was so beautiful that we thought that maybe your blog made the park decide to maintain the trail. Not true, as after lunch the trail became more difficult although doable and around 16:00 we reached the most beautiful hut and had an amazing sunset.
Encouraged, we started section 4 the next morning at 6 am. And that was a day with only crawling and sliding and being very careful at two points where there had been a landslide. We were wondering if we would reach hut 4 but finally at 16:30 far away on the top of the hill, we saw hut 4. There we decided not to go on to section 5 as we remembered that it took you guys 14 hours and you were walking (crawling) harder than us. Furthermore, we did not take a sleeping bag, just a liner so we could not make use of our jungle hammock as higher up that would be way too cold. We saw another trail on the maps, both on our own maps as the map in the hut. The Victor Hughes trail to Monte Bello and prayed that that trail would be a little better maintained.
On day 5, we took that trail and it was a beautiful trail compared to day 4. Not very well maintained, some detours around landslides, but very doable and after 10 hours of walking we reached the road and from there everybody was helpful.