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From Another week, another Venue...
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From Sea kayaking at Abel Tasman National Park
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From 45 river crossings before 11.30 am
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From Ascent of Mount Fox
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From Sunshine on Pot Scar
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From Sunshine on Gimmer
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From Gillercombe Buttress Revisited
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From Tramping the Rees-Dart
Month: March 2012
This week’s weird-work-venue is this silver face. But where am I this time?
A lovely day on the water... ...with sting rays!
A day and a half tramping the Inland Pack Track in Paparoa National Park. Most of it spent standing in a cold river...
Making the best of a wet day: 1040 metres of climb in a little over 2km!
It was still sunny on Sunday, and even warmer, and we realised we hadn’t had tea and cake for ages and ages and ages, so I decided a crag very close to a cafe was required…. Pot Scar just above Feizor.
As Haskett Smith recorded in 1894 in his Climbing in the British Isles, “… There are times even in the Lake District when the rain ceases and the sun shines, and it is then that the climber should gambol upon this crag.”
Terry likes to climb Gillercombe Buttress about this time of year as a nice warm up to the season.
Work takes people to all kinds of strange places so it took me to Bucharest for an entire year!
After a few days in Dunedin, we headed to Queenstown in search of adventure. We arranged a five day tramp at the North end of Lake Wakatipu, up the Rees Valley and back down the Dart. Day 1 saw us driven from Queenstown to Muddy Creek, the start of the track. As usual, we were …
