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Mt Cupola
Aug 29th 2010
Left on Thursday night on a tramp with WTMC. Caught the ferry down and slept in St. Arnaud near the water taxi jetty. Arrived at Cupola Hut on Friday afternoon. Saturday, the weather was a bit too rubbish for a safe climb, so I just went for a wander with Phil and David, which was
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Mt. Taranaki
Aug 8th 2010
I spent the weekend with some nice folks from WMTC up Mt Taranaki. Unfortunately we didn’t make the summit due to bad weather.
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Tararuas Run
Aug 1st 2010
This weekend I did a run from the Marchant Road end. I was intending to head over the main range and meet up with Rowena, Ross, Gavin, Steve and Jenny at Totara Flats. Just as I was coming around the Dress Circle a nasty front poured over the tops and I found myself flat on
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Mt. Ruapehu
Jul 25th 2010
Spent the weekend at the WTMC lodge doing some climbing with and without ropes.
More > Tararuas Tramp
Jul 16th 2010
We went for a wander up from Otaki Forks with a plan to head back out via Renata, but we ended up stopping at Kime and just went back the following day. A little bit chilly with a temperature of 1ºC in the hut.
More > Mt. Ruapehu
Jul 11th 2010
Spent the weekend at the WTMC lodge climbing around Ruapehu. Went for a wander up to dome and Te Heuheu, and did some ropes work.
More > Trip to Mitre/Tarn Ridge
Jun 5th 2010
This was a three day trip. The plan was to do a loop, but we got weathered in pretty badly. We ended staying put at Tarn Hut for the day on Sunday and headed out on Monday when the wind dropped a little bit. The wind was still strong enough to be flipping us upside
More > Ruapehu/lodge trip
May 23rd 2010
Went to see how to run the WTMC lodge. I also did a run up to Dome on Sunday morning. Quite enjoyable. Used microspikes and axe and moved pretty quickly. There were a couple of dodgy points that added to the excitement. I went on a steep icy patch over a large drop-off that was
More > Queenstown trip
Dec 20th 2009
Went down to Queenstown for the weekend on a grabaseat. Did a 13 hour run up to the Remarkables, a bit of a scramble to the peak and down into the Wye Creek Valley and back to Queenstown. Very boggy, and rough and many parts were not runnable, so it took a bit longer than
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