MidWinter tramping Arthur’s Pass 7th – 15th July 2012   Saturday - 7th July Finally holiday and then you decide to wake up at 5am after only 2 or 3 hours of sleep because Friday the 6th was the last night your flatmate could go party before going over seas…   I had a nice walk to the ferry trying to convince myself that I had not ...

Manakau Ascent 18-20 November 2010 Kieran Paton (scribe) & Manoel Matos Having heard that the route up Manakau in the Seaward Kaikoura Range was a long one, getting away from our mid-level camp (1600m) on Surveyor Spur at the leisurely hour of 8.30am was perhaps not the most promising start. But then we had also heard that Manakau was known ...