AHURIRI VALLEY: I CLIMBED MOUNT BARTH
Well I wanted to, but I didn´t. Sometimes what you intend to do is very different from what you end up doing. Like when you want to drive...
OLD WOMAN RANGE: A PLACE OF AMAZING ROCKS
The Old Woman Hut was named after the mountain range not far from Cromwell. That is maybe 50 kilometres from where I live. I decided to...
ROB ROY GLACIER: LUNCH WITH A VIEW
Rob Roy Glacier flows down the peak of the same name in Mount Aspiring National Park. There is a view point at the end of a 5km-long...
MCINTOSH HUT: MY COSY LITTLE HUT HIGH IN THE SKY
Normally I am not allowed to get up too early in the morning but it seemed to be fine on Wednesday. I already knew something was going on...
WANAKA: MY FIRST SUMMER CHRISTMAS
When Christmas happened last time, it was 24th of December and there was snow everywhere. This time it was 25th and 20 degrees. What is...
PAKITUHI HUT: THE HARDEST CLIMB OF MY LIFE
The Pakituhi hut sits in the altitude of nearly 1 300 metres above sea level just below Breast Hill (1 578 m), surrounded by peaks of the...
FERN BURN HUT: POSSUM HUNT THAT I SLEPT THROUGH
The track from the car park at the end of the Motatapu Road to the Fern Burn Hut is the first part of the multi-day, 35-kilometre-long...
MEG HUT: THERE WAS NO WOOD!
Meg Hut is a very old hut in Pisa Conservation Area maybe 30 kilometres from Wanaka. Meg Hut is a hut where mum and dad met ages ago. And...
WANAKA III: I WAS BORN 365 DAYS AGO
Something very extraordinary was happening today. In the morning daddy took mum and me up the mountain where he works. At first I met the...
AUSTRALIA IX: GUESS WHERE I WAS YESTERDAY
Not having a picture with the Opera House is like not being in Sydney at all. At least it looked like that when mum and I finally got...
