Category: Alpine
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Lost in the Arrowsmith’s: South Canterbury Adventure
It’s Sunday afternoon, I’m halfway down a remote south Canterbury valley and I can’t find my friends Marta and Paul. I yell at the top of my voice, blow my whistle and scan the rugged river and dense scrub. My heart rate jumps what do I do now? Planning for this trip had been a…
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Matterhorn of the South: Mt Aspiring Tititea🏔️✨
It was 7pm, we were descending from the summit of Mt Aspiring Tititea. The day had been a perfect summit day except for the moments where I was scared 😱 I don’t go adventuring to get scared, I love the challenge of rough wild terrain, long days, uncertain weather and exploring new backcountry. The fear…
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Ski Touring the Mountain Turks: Mahu Whenua Traverse
A few years ago I got a message from my mother in law telling me about the Mahu Whenua Traverse – Mountain Turk Club Erik Bradshaw created a club to build mountain huts out of water tanks opening up a world-class alpine traverse along the backbone of the Harris mountains that connect Wanaka and Queenstown.…
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Haast Pass to the Wilken
Arriving on the tops above Haast Pass we had our first view of the spectacular main divide we would traverse. It was more dramatic than I had imagined. 3 months and many hours of planning had come together, an excellent forecast gave us a chance to follow our A plan. The A plan was inspired…
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Arthurs Pass | 3 Passes + Newton Saddle
At the end of our first day I was thinking we were going to have an easier than planned three day adventure in Arthur’s Pass, but by the end of day two I was wrong. Anthony eyed the steep snow covered scree slope from Park Morpeth hut, it looked very intimidating. We had a perfect…
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Angelus Snow Trip
On the Friday night we ate like kings – tortillas warmed on top of the cast iron fire, filled to overflowing with hot sticky beans, carrots, cheese, greens, even sour cream had made its way in! No weight saving de-hy to be seen. One of our members had forgotten his spoon and proceeded to chisel…
