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Lotsofadventures

Kieran — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:13:00 GMT

Hey hey, just to let you all know that your president and co are not MIA but are in fact still bumming round the south island having adventures in the mountains!

So far we (including at various stages Terra, Sophie, Jeremy, Alyn, Guy, Annabel, Ben, Andrea, Olly) have succeeded in not getting to the Olivine Ice Plateau, hitching round the south island trying to get back to the car, climbing Mount Aspiring, sleeping in the bushes in Wanaka, clambering up dodgy rock and ice slopes in Mt Cook, Jeremy dropping crampon off top of aforesaid dodgy ice slope on Mt Sealy, climbing Nuns Veil (and running into Glenn Pennycook up there, for those that know him) and wandering round up the top of the Tasman Glacier getting buzzed by ski planes! Plus a bit of rock climbing in between, plenty of drinking and eating here with Annabel and Andrea in Mt Cook village and generally getting up to mischief and having lots of fun!

I'll put some more photos up and write some trip reports when I get back - which will be early next week sometime unfortunately! Hope your all having plenty of adventures anyway and I'll catch you all at the pub sometime and organise plenty more for next month!

Cheers,

Kieran

C'mon! Have some adventures!

Kieran — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:10:00 GMT

And write about them here and add photos like this...

...from the gallery here by clicking the content selector button in the editor.

NB this is not in the south island, except for the smelly tramper on the right who probably is by now :)

(thats bound to get a response)

Tramping in the Kawekas

ben — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 17:11:00 GMT

Our first blog on the vuwtc website must inevitably be about tramping.

We had a nice trip in the Kawekas at Labour weekend. A crew of 8 headed up to Middle Hill Hut then over the tops to Tira Lodge for the night. Some of the group were eager for a mission, so Richie, Hannah and Joe headed west off the ridge in search of bush, bivs, and rivers. The rest of the group made a beeline for the hot pools and that trout that would fit perfectly in my belly.

There were a few people at the hot springs, but not quite the crowds we were expecting. The rain through the night seemed to flush most people away, and we were alone in the campsite when we finally got out of pit.

Long drive home.

Test post to Clendon blog

admin — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 01:02:00 GMT

Only users in the "Clendon" group can edit this blog. Can reference images in the gallery (probably worth setting up a Clendon gallery too with similar permissions if this is going to fly).

Test image in new gallery