Late February saw Quentin and I roll into the Matakitaki valley looking to check out the lesser visited parts of Nelson Lakes National Park.  We stayed the night at the Nelson College facility just up the road from Mt Ella station.  It was locked but the big verandahs make for a good place to stay if you're down that way.  There ...

Powell-Jumbo Loop   Joe Prebble (scribe)  Ben Clark, Richard Davies   A fairly light sleep in Powell Hut on Friday night, as a group from the Wainui Christian College shared bad jokes and saliva into the night. Not helped much by their teacher, who took a Ned Flanders approach to discipline, attempting to pull them into ...