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Rees Rees Dec 2021
Jeremy, Katie, and I drove to Wanaka for a night and then on to the Rees valley the following day. The plan was to do a variation on the Rees Dart tramping track. Usually such a trip would be known as the Rees Dart but we named our variation the Rees Rees owing to…
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Ski Touring Camp Stream Hut 2021
So after spending two nights at the CMC lodge in Mt Cook village we drove back North to Tekapo in the fresh snow that had come down very low and was coating the valley floor near Lake Pukaki. I hadn’t seen this much snow here… ever? We drove to the DoC access point near Mt…
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Ski Touring Snowy Gorge Hut 2021
We left on Friday morning at 5:30 am and drove down to Lake Ohau. Parking near the lake, we packed our gear for an overnight trip and got going about 11 am which is pretty late considering when it gets dark. I’d realised on the way down that I’d forgot the tent, which meant we…
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Kahurangi Point
Craig flew down on Friday and went biking for a day with Reagan. We all ended up at the flat on the hot summer evening eating pizzas that I magicked up. We packed my car and Craig and I drove to Paines Ford later in the evening and camped at Hangdog despite it being “fully…