not a desert night with camels, kaftans etc? cos that could be pretty awsome/dangerous.......does instant potato count as dessert?? i got a bit of that lying round....

It may be best if both of you get some decent boots first :plight tramping boots wont really cut it!!   I also may be able to source some snowshoes through people i know in the alpine club/from work....

best to head down on the 17th or 18th - you would not want to miss my 21st birthday would you?!?was thinking of heading down to the fox neve, do a bit of skiing/climbing down there on the other side of the alps... though i could be tempted by tasman or silberhorn in winter... o_O

Hey Hey Everybody, rock craft 2 is coming to town!!Well by coming to town, i mean we are leaving town to go on rock craft... We will be going to a exotic location called Wharepapa south, which is about an hour or so north of taupo, this will be happening on ANZAC weekend.  vague plan is to drive somewhere halfway on thursday night, camp, drive a ...

Another option instead of buying a season pass is get some ski touring gear and just skin everywhere, avoid the lift queues and get off the mail trails (well, all the trails really)   Im starting to lean that way myself - less people to laugh at me falling over im sure! 

Andrea and I plan on doing a bit of skiing this year - she even convinced me to buy a pair of skis (Ski and camp have closed down and had a sale on a few weeks ago :p)... now just need some touring bindings, skins and a way to make them fit my mountaineering boots...Ollie

Indeed it was much to my disgust - It was a miserably raining morning, had been raining since about midnight and i had been bivying out injust my sleeping bag, which was by then a bit damp... after i had got up and made that lot breakfast i was waiting round, sitting in the rain for about 3-4 hours listening to the promises that they were ...

And i shall be headed to Wharepapa, which is a really cool climbing place about 6 hours drive away... will be there (or some other rock climbing area in the central north island) for the 5? days that us uni students  get off :D Not too sure how much space will be in the cars, im not even sure who is coming who has a car... but there should be a ...

wow, thats commitment, posting at 1.30am....and you sure swimming is a good idea roudn there? i believe there is quite a strong undertow... mind you, depending on how deep the river is, you may need your togs for that....

i would be keen too!! (just need to check a few bits and pieces....)and i am very good at running round and finding rocks, especially in Mt Cook!Ollie