Hopefully I'll get a month or so off work round january/february to cruise round the south island - so would be very keen to check out stewart island, maybe off the beaten (and muddy) track a bit! The tin range is supposed to be quite good if maybe somewhat rugged tramping. Also would be keen for other stuff in the south of the ...

Soft! I hear Crow or McKinnon huts make good Friday night (er saturday morning) destinations! None of this sleeping at the road end business - you might get attacked by a hoard of ravening pirates floating down the Kawhatau on a home made raft!

Weather not really looking so good, so will postpone this til next week. And if that fails will just give up and go rock climbing!

Will email people tomorrow about this - see what the weathers looking like by tomorrow afternoon and see who's still keen! If it looks like its gonna be excessively windy or rainy/snowy then I'm probably not keen. If we pike on this weekend, would anyone be keen for the weekend after (for those not going to Wharepapa anyway)?

Hey, sounds like there's a few people keen for Taranaki this weekend - would be nice to do alpine stuff not on Ruapehu! Might as well register your interest here or let me know at the meeting tonight, so we can sort out some transport. Am only keen if the weather looks good of course! I think the idea would be to head up to the summit and camp ...

Yep I climbed it round about November two years ago. We did a round trip from the huts, approaching the peak from the northern side and descending off the southern side. It was pretty easy, mostly just moderate to steepish rock and scree scrambling with the odd snow patch on the upper slopes. A long tongue of snow on the south side made for ...