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Travers Saddle
• On our 7 day tramp from St Arnaud to the Boyle,one of few fine,sunny times was on this saddle,an hour or two up from Upper Travers Hut.The hut was chocka with mostly Ozzies & Europeans either doing...
Tiger country
• Innocuous looking but challenging when you attempt to enter it,this dynamic creek on Double Hill Station,Upper Rakaia River,will test your mettle.Can only be attempted in low flows,comes armed with...
NOT Begley Saddle
• Our wee group had left Upper Travers Hut after reading route notes & studying the two options from below but we chose the wrong way.While we topped the St Arnaud Range,we were too far towards Kehu ...
Lindis Pass area
• had a wee job in Wanaka that required a sparrowfart start(from home in Methven) and rewarded with this vista taken on a shoe-phone at 100kph through the drivers side window.Once I cropped the steer...
MTBs at 1800 metres!
• Hundreds of MTBers & others ascended the chairlift at Mt Hutt skifields` open day recently.Bereft of snow but insanity in spades & there were few places some of these crazy jockeys would not go.Our...
A bobby dasler
• On a recent Dogtucker Camp(group of older outdoorsmen who congregate each year for a week in the backblocks) some of the fitter ones clambered up above the scrub-line behind Dasler Biv for a look o...
Sunset from Red Hill
• An overnight camp,right by the summit of Red Hill.Ideal conditions & timely,with a front about to crash the party in a couple of days.Grand views of Lake Coleridge,Mt Hutt Range & the Black Hill Ra...
Scotts Saddle overnighter
• Walked up from Te Awa Awa Reserve & camped on a knob about 15 minutes from Scotts Saddle.Hour and a bit,ideal weather,just used bivvy bag but a sleeping bag in the tussock would`ave done.I cleared ...
Pinnacle Biv
• A cosy,reflective lunch stop on a bluebird day.A day excursion from Boo Boo hut where one of our party was extracted the previous night after a heart attack on the walk in.Very lucky for the person...
