The campfire

article on antipodes operation http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2016/05/02/the-beginning-of-the-end-endangered-invasive-mice/

Frank and I allocated ourselves beds in a popular hut recently but as people continued to arrive it dawned on us that it was a Great Walk hut and all those people had booked so ...

As I age I find tracks become more difficult than before and I now accept that any description with the word 'difficult' in it means 'no go' for me. Even some of the lesser ones ...

Try to camp on a bit of a slope rather than right on the valley floor as it will be warmer due to cold air sliding down to lower ground. This happens because cold air ...

bare bones attempt at everest the Kiwi way. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/kevinodonnell/new-zealand-everest-expedition_b_5099351.html

further info on the rescue http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11630084

NZ Hunter Adventures Season 2 continues tonight..........

I tried the tricks of making the cv look good but sadly it could not work. If you don't wish to blow your chance then try some consultation with professional cv writers. Check this out: ...

Natural and human history https://www.tvnz.co.nz/ondemand/coast-new-zealand/19-04-2016/series-2015-episode-1

Agreed waynowski. 80 landings per day - that is a spectacular number.

This looks interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1GwIODhgwY

There are some useful reports about, http://sportingshooters.nz/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Analysis-of-MSC-unintentional-shootings-mk-2.pdf https://www.police.govt.nz/service/firearms/safehunting.pdf couple quotes from Coroners report of 2...

A simple, up-beat movie. Might be adventurous for pre-teen kids ?. Nice settings around Coromandel & Ruapehu. No pause after the jokes, so it curtails the laughter. Fair rockets through the story.

The answer to the $26M question ?. ""The British ensign proved to be the victor with no real change in votes from the preliminary results: 1,208,702 (56.6 per cent) voted for the current flag and ...

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Maybe the sandfly thing. I think this one's entirely about modifying the Wildlife Act. http://www.parliament.nz/en-nz/pb/legislation/bills/00DBHOH_BILL67948_1/wildlife-powers-amendment-bill

I cant find it either Maybe it was scaremongering by policy selling insurance agents

Bit late on this but you could try Derry Kingston of Heaphy Track Help http://www.heaphytrackhelp.co.nz/ who, I know helps out on the other tracks. He's a legend, like you madpom! He often is able to ...

Perhaps the person responsible for the fire had read about the hunter billed 60k for reporting a scrub fire.

weather was OK. probably not hypothermia. http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/78128415/tourist-dies-on-tongariro-crossing-despite-help-from-fellow-trampers.html "A German man died on the Tongariro Crossing, before other trampers could help him t...

Pretty good, more than I'd want to have to pay to replace mine if it went missing.

usually people realise they are going the wrong way in bad visibility when they start climbing isabelle, but those that dont bother reading a map dont pick up the mistake in the terrain and just ...

Tramping groups fear a review of Department of Conservation (DoC) tracks and huts could mean some routes are closed or left to third parties to maintain. http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/regional/299127/fears-doc-could-close-tracks

2G was never much use on the hills anyway due to the 35km (approx) limit imposed by the transmission delays the ptotocol could handle. I know in aus some later phones/bases improved this distance by ...

That's an obvious and brilliant idea @geeves I've been just handing them in at the airport on the way home each time as a dangerous item and the airport destroys it. But yea, such a waste. Why ...