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    Arthur's Pass National Park - Classic tramping close to Christchurch.

  • Winter dusk over Lake Kaurapataka (24k)
  • Moonrise on Tarn Col (27k)
  • Reflections, Lake Kaurapataka (45k)
  • Otehake hot springs at night (16k)
  • Otehake river in flood (15k)
  • Avalanche Peak (15k)
  • On the Crow Face of Mt Rolleston (18k)
  • The Waimakariri river (26k)
  • East Edwards (28k)
  • Harman Pass (55k)
  • The Taipo river (15k)
  • Julia creek hot springs (62k)
  • Lake Mavis & Mt Oates in winter (53k)
  • Lake Mavis by star/moon light (46k)
  • Lake Mavis - swimming in summer (17k)
  • Climbing up Mt Oates (25k)
  • Otehake river by moonlight (15k)
  • Otehake spiders! (31k)
  • Otira valley, winter (25k)
  • Goldney ridge, Mt Rolleston (22k)
  • Mt Bealey snow cave (22k)
  • Temple Basin snow cave (12k)
  • Temple Basin (17k)
  • Norwest front over the Waimakariri (19k)
  • Approaching the Crow Face (11k)
  • The Crow Face of Mt Rolleston (39k)
  • The Otira valley in summer (33k)
  • Mt Cook National Park - Home to all but one of the 3000m peaks. (Part I & Part II)

  • Mt Cook and Mt Annette (31k)
  • Mt Cook - Nor'west storm (32k)
  • Typical NZ rock on Mt Sealy (36k)
  • On the summit Mt Sealy (26k)
  • Descending to Sladden Saddle (33k)
  • Ball Pass (20k)
  • Looking towards the Copland Pass (58k)
  • Mt Cook, autumn dusk (41k)
  • Aiguilles Rouges (21k)
  • Kea at Mueller hut (25k)
  • Beatham hut and Mt Malte Brun (24k)
  • Plateau Hut (36k)
  • Top of the Rudolph glacier (54k)
  • De La Beche ridge (24k)
  • Tasman glacier moraine (71k)
  • Red Tarns (54k)
  • View from the Sealy range (49k)
  • Mt Sefton (45k)
  • Sunrise, Grand Plateau (19k)
  • The view from the Ball Pass (29k)
  • The Wakefield Falls (77k)
  • Haast Ridge - on the way to the Grand Plateau (29k)
  • Mt Cook from the Hooker terminal lake (40k)
  • Hooker terminal lake (26k)
  • Crossing the Grand Plateau, beneath the East face of Cook (38k)
  • Mt Tasman from the Grand Plateau (35k)
  • Malte Brun Pass (44k)
  • Mt Cook Dusk (22k)
  • Glacier Rock Bivy, Grand Plateau (61k)
  • Malte Brun Range (39k)
  • Sealy Tarns (33k)
  • Hooker valley (17k)
  • Avalanche on Mt Sefton (37k)
  • Snow camp, Sealy Range (10k)
  • Caroline face of Mt Cook + me! (28k)
  • Mt Cook - new additions (Nov 97)

  • The Wakefield Falls (77k)
  • On the Malte Brun Range, mid-winter (48k)
  • The Rudolph Glacier from the Tasman Glacier (81k)
  • The South Face of Mt Cook (69k)
  • Plateau Hut on the edge of the 1300m Hochstetter ice fall (86k)
  • Ball Pass camp site (83k)
  • Fiordland - Wow! The most amazing place in New Zealand?!

  • Dusky Sound (46k)
  • Dusky Sound (52k)
  • Arrowsmith Range - Steep 9000ft peaks of (loose) rock and ice only 2 hrs from Christchurch.

  • Jaggered Peak (47k)
  • East Horn of Mt Arrowsmith (55k)
  • Kea on the Cameron moraine wall (33k)
  • Traversing steep snow slopes on Mt Arrowsmith (52k)
  • Spring snow plod near Cameron Hut (18k)
  • Cameron Hut (15k)
  • Anna on the way up to the South Cameron glacier (43k)
  • South Cameron glacier in Summer (56k)
  • On the Douglas glacier (49k)
  • Climbing/Alpine tramping - Miscellaneous.

  • Ice climbing - Inland Kaikoura Range (60k)
  • Winter scrambling, Mt Cook (51k)
  • More winter scrambling, Mt Cook (34k)
  • Mt Rolleston, Arthur's Pass (22k)
  • Crow face, Arthur's Pass (30k)
  • De La Beche, Mt Cook (34k)
  • On the Sealy Range (30k)
  • Mt Hooker - An 8-day tramping/climbing trip in NZ wilderness.

  • Day 1 - The Paringa river (39k)
  • On the ridge above the Otoko face (21k)
  • Mt Hooker, near the West summit (42k)
  • Mt Hooker from the Solution range (43k)
  • The Falls at Tunnel creek - Paringa river (35k)
  • Crossing into the Clarke catchment (42k)
  • Descending into the Clarke - gale-force wind (10k)
  • Paringa Rock Biv (51k)
  • Upper Otoko campsite (40k)
  • The rock bivy at Mark's Flat - dinner (22k)
  • The rock bivy at Mark's Flat (large) (68k)
  • Mark's Rock Biv after the climb (18k)
  • Breakfast at Mark's Flat (36k)
  • Mt McCulough (18k)
  • Upper Otoko dinner time! (38k)
  • Ascending the head of the Paringa (23k)
  • Saddle Creek (17k)
  • The view from Mt Hooker (26k)
  • Bouldering - upper Otoko (24k)
  • Deer Flat, Lower Otoko River (45k)
  • The upper Otoko (14k)
  • Looking for a campsite - upper Otoko (25k)
  • Geoff and Adrian traversing snow slopes (63k)
  • Mad kea - Lower Otoko (52k)
  • Crossing Avalanche debris (33k)
  • Heading to the pass at the head of the Paringa (21k)
  • Under the Paringa rock biv (77k)
  • Kaikoura - Dry East coast ranges rise dramatically from the sea.

  • Dawn in the upper Hodder, winter (17k)
  • Full version of the above photo (70k)
  • Sidling snow slopes above the Hodder (16k)
  • Tapi from the saddle - winter Nor'wester (37k)
  • Lunch beneath Tapi (12k)
  • Waterfall ice climbing in the Hodder valley (49k)
  • Tapi from the Clarence (84k) (54k)
  • Southerly storm on the ridge up to Mt Manakau, Seaward Kaikoura's (44k)
  • Fresh snow fall in the Kowhai valley, Seaward Kaikoura's (46k)
  • Tapi in a day - The infamous "rest" day on the Clarence rafting trip.

  • Ravine Hut - The base for the 3AM start (35k)
  • Sunrise - the first 1000m (23k)
  • Tapi-Alarm saddle - the next 1000m (40k)
  • Looking back to the rafts (30k)
  • The last 500m! (52k)
  • Stepping on to the summit (46k)
  • Helen and Dan on the summit (38k)
  • Looking out over the Awatere river (43k)
  • Mt Aspiring - The Matterhorn of the Southern Alps?

  • Mt Aspiring sunrise (22k)
  • Base of French ridge (33k)
  • Bushline - French ridge (14k)
  • Mealmates - food for five days? (14k)
  • Descending the "ramp", northwest ridge, Mt Aspiring I (18k)
  • Descending the "ramp", northwest ridge, Mt Aspiring II (15k)
  • Walking up the West Matukituki valley (28k)
  • Crossing the Bonar glacier (14k)
  • Jim cooking (7k)
  • Snow cave on Mt French (13k)
  • Ohau State Forest - Classic South Island tramping.

  • Ahuriri valley (47k)
  • Moraine walls beneath Mt Huxley (25k)
  • South face of Mt Huxley (65k)
  • Mt Maitland, crossing into the Watson (42k)
  • The Dasler Pinnacles? (26k)
  • Morning light on the pass above North Temple Stream (68k)
  • Socks at Top Hut, Ahuriri (15k)
  • Scree! Watson Creek (58k)
  • Paparoa National Park - Karst, bush + caves.

  • Fox river (42k)
  • Dusk, Paparoa coastline (40k)
  • Fox river caves (30k)
  • Cave formations (33k)
  • Sink hole (42k)
  • Cave weta (25k)
  • Metro Cave, Paparoa National Park (21k)
  • Mountain biking the Heaphy track, Kahurangi National Park (38k)
  • Moa Caves, Paparoa National Park (15k)
  • Tramping I - anywhere and everywhere, climbing + caves.

  • Cragieburn high country (14k)
  • West coast rain forest (47k)
  • Lake Clearwater (31k)
  • Franz Joseph glacier (45k)
  • Franz Joseph glacier terminal face (65k)
  • Lewis Pass (37k)
  • Nina Hut, Lewis Pass (13k)
  • Snow grass descent, Lewis Tops (35k)
  • Winter on the Lewis Tops (16k)
  • Mts Gloriana & Fairie Queene (13k)
  • West Coast scrub (37k)
  • Kahikatea forest, Westland (30k)
  • Otehake island campsite (70k)
  • Tramping II - More pictures!.

  • Southerly, above the lower Tasman valley (37k)
  • Southerly storm, Mt Hooker (16k)
  • Foggy Peak, winter day walk on the Torlesse range (27k)
  • Mt Torlesse - summer descent (30k)
  • Scrambling, Ball Pass (17k)
  • West coast bush-bash, Kelly Creek, Arthur's Pass (53k)
  • Snow Goblin, Torlesse range (29k)
  • CUTC snow craft! How to... (50k)
  • Digging-in (10k)
  • Snow craft? ..Cass Saddle (14k)
  • Spring snowfall, Mt Bealey (33k)
  • Frozen ground, Arthur's Pass (48k)
  • Mt Peel, Canterbury foot hills (20k)
  • Mt Oxford, Ryde falls (86k)
  • West Coast bush, Franz Joseph Glacier (25k)
  • Flock Hill, Torlesse-Cragieburn (36k)
  • Alpine meadow, Harman Pass (54k)
  • Harman Pass (43k)
  • Mt Richardson - Canterbuty foothills (43k)
  • Twin Falls Creek (49k)
  • Torlesse day traverse (12k)
  • Torlesse day traverse (61k)
  • Tramping III - More pictures!.

  • Keas, Harman Pass (32k)
  • Mt Bealy (49k)
  • Tarn, above Taruahuna Pass (36k)
  • South Westland (15k)
  • Inland Marlborough (31k)
  • Twin Falls Creek (57k)
  • Westland (49k)
  • Franz Joseph Glacier (31k)
  • Temple Basin (45k)
  • Taruahuna Pass (18k)
  • Mt Peel (55k)
  • Mt Franklin (52k)
  • Mt Aspiring (33k)
  • Castle Hill Peak (53k)
  • Summer tramping (37k)
  • Bouldering down the East Edwards (52k)
  • Fly camping in the Otehake (32k)
  • Cragieburn Forest Park (55k)
  • Lake Mavis (34k)
  • Walker Pass (13k)
  • Dinner time! Lake Mavis (38k)
  • Cows, Terawhiti Station, Tongue Point, Wellington (31k)
  • Kahurangi National Park - Vast region of bush, limestone mountains, caves and rivers.

  • Fyfe river (47k)
  • Lake Bulmer rock bivy (46k)
  • Mt Owen (14k)
  • Replica Hill (46k)
  • Limestone creeks (41k)
  • Karst landscape (43k)
  • Kahurangi from Mt Owen (42k)
  • Dusk on Mt Owen (49k)
  • Fyfe river (51k)
  • Boulder choke, Fyfe river (37k)
  • The Bulmer bluffs (41k)
  • Campsite, Mt Owen (50k)
  • Upper gorge of the Fyfe (12k)
  • Fyfe river, lower gorge (44k)
  • Sunset Mt Owen (35k)
  • The main entrance to the 800m deep Bulmer cave (31k)
  • People etc... Odds & ends.. which may get me into trouble.

  • The OUTC at Meuller Hut (23k)
  • Snow plod - descending Mt Oxford (40k)
  • On the summit of Mt Oxford, winter! (49k)
  • How do I get down? Aiguilles Rouges (44k)
  • Getting there... in a student car (23k)
  • Twalk Sweede (12k)
  • Fast food - Adrian finds snow berries (52k)
  • Bridget & afternoon sun in the Edwards valley (70k)
  • Otehake Hot springs by night (22k)
  • Relaxing in the hot springs (18k)
  • Dinnertime on Glacier Rock (25k)
  • CUTC snow plod up Mt Oxford (42k)
  • The A-team, De La Beche corner (68k)
  • Mr Blobby on Avalanche Peak! (44k)
  • Early morning brew on the Taipo river flats (59k)
  • CUTC members model PVC! (15k)
  • Bill on the Torlesse range (58k)
  • Winter on Mt Oates (14k)
  • The steep-sided Otehake valley (70k)
  • Andrew Allen & the Hooker valley (62k)
  • Vacuum-man on Mt Rolleston (11k)
  • Catherine above a sea of clouds, Torlesse (46k)
  • Snow boarding on Mt Oxford (16k)
  • Graeme on ice (26k)
  • Jullian and Bridget beneath the gullies on Mt Phipps (31k)
  • Adrian and Anna in the upper Edwards (60k)
  • People etc - new additions (Nov 97)

  • Bill and Anne Kennedy on the Waimak boulder-bash (76k)
  • Margie Wells near Graham's Saddle (36k)
  • Catherine's yummy snow-cave trifle (41k)
  • Climbing the moraine wall on the Tasman (94k!!)
  • Canyoning, Woolshed Creek Mt Somers - Lots of fun!

  • In the first gorge (21k)
  • Bindu (the dog) gets a lesson in abseiling (29k)
  • It's wet... at the bottom of the waterfall (29k)
  • The first abseil! (47k)
  • Mr Blobby goes canyoning (40k)
  • Thomas and the waterfall (15k)
  • Negotiating the overhang... (15k)
  • At the bottom of the water slide (52k)
  • In one of the narrow bits! (18k)
  • The second abseil (32k)
  • Peering into Woolshed Creek canyon (31k)
  • On the water slide! (24k)
  • ...then the waterfall (36k)
  • Tongariro National Park - Volcanoes!

  • Sunset, volcanic plateau (24k)
  • Cascade, East Tongariro (15k)
  • Lava pinnacles, East Tongariro (18k)
  • Taranaki falls (16k)
  • Central Crater, Mt Tongariro (46k)
  • Cathedral Rocks (34k)
  • Cathedral Rocks (17k)
  • Mt Ruapehu - Summer storm (14k)
  • Crater Lake, Mt Ruapehu (25k)
  • Summit plateau, Mt Ruapehu (13k)
  • Above the clouds, Mt Ruapehu (27k)
  • The view from Ketetahi (26k)
  • Ketetahi crater (14k)
  • Ketetahi crater (35k)
  • Victoria falls! - Ketetahi (59k)
  • Silica springs, Mt Ruapehu (17k)
  • Rangipo desert - Eastern slopes of Mt Tongariro (62k)
  • Red crater Mt Tongariro (54k)
  • Mt Taranaki from the volcanic plateau (17k)
  • Mt Ngaurahoe (43k)
  • Tongariro State Forest Park, ancient lava flow (51k)
  • Emerald Lakes (44k)
  • Emerald Lakes (36k)
  • Whakapapanui river, Mt Ruapehu (51k)
  • Boiling mud, Ketetahi (29k)
  • Sunset, Whakapapaiti valley (54k)
  • On the saddle between Ngaurahoe and Ruapehu (44k)
  • Sunrise on the saddle (14k)
  • East Tongariro, view to the Kaimanawa Ranges (37k)
  • Ketetahi hot springs (37k)
  • Lone plant, Emerald Lakes (20k)
  • Sunrise on Mt Tongariro (18k)
  • Ketetahi hot springs II (11k)
  • Red Crater (13k)
  • Red Crater (40k)
  • Summit of Ngauruhoe (7k)
  • Summit of Ngauruhoe (28k)
  • Blue Lake, Mt Tongariro (19k)
  • Rock formations, Mt Tongariro (31k)
  • Rock formations, Ketetahi (19k)
  • Mt Taranaki from the summit plateau of Ruapehu (38k)
  • Sunset, Mt Ruapehu (19k)
  • Outerere Springs, Mt Ruapehu (31k)
  • Daisy, Mt Tongariro (10k)
  • Rangipo Desert (60k)
  • South Crater, Mt Tongariro (11k)
  • Boulder, Emerald Lakes (50k)
  • Rafting the Clarence I - 5 days from the mountains to the sea...

  • Searching for hot springs (19k)
  • The river, the boat - the last campsite (18k)
  • Bindu the stick dog relaxes (16k)
  • Mr Blobby in the "Jaw Breaker" (31k)
  • The crew (25k)
  • Steep mountains enclose the river (53k)
  • The last campsite (36k)
  • Typical scenery in the upper Clarence (23k)
  • Katharine & Thomas - looking for hotsprings (51k)
  • Sunset, day 3 (19k)
  • Rescuing a Canadian canoe (37k)
  • Lunch-stop - entrance of the 2nd gorge (15k)
  • The "chute" - first gorge (46k)
  • Riding the barrels (17k)
  • Mr Blobby (13k)
  • Rapids! (45k)
  • Kayaking (30k)
  • Rapids on day 4 (57k)
  • Mr Blooby and the journey home! (30k)
  • Rafting the Clarence II - More people shots, wildlife & history...

  • The old Acheron accommodation house (9k)
  • Inside the accommodation house (20k)
  • The get-in (27k)
  • Big Hills & space - Upper Clarence (48k)
  • Canadian Geese (17k)
  • Rabbits! (9k)
  • Bailing! (30k)
  • Resting (28k)
  • Route finding (43k)
  • Lunch - Day 2 (26k)
  • Water under the bridge (19k)
  • Surviving a rapid (25k)
  • Day 4 - the bad lands (27k)
  • More whitewater rafting!

  • Kayaking the Buller river - Granity (71k)
  • Deflating! - on the Buller (43k)
  • Rafting the Buller river (40k)
  • Like it usually is - Buller (19k)
  • On the upper Buller (16k)
  • Kayaker on the Clarence (58k)
  • Bank's Peninsula - Christchurch's greatest asset...

  • Mt Bradley (35k)
  • Sunrise, Okain's Bay (20k)
  • Okain's Bay (24k)
  • The old wharf at Okain's Bay (16k)
  • Lyttleton harbour from Mt Bradley (28k)
  • Lyttleton from the Port Hills (27k)
  • Beach camping! Okain's Bay (28k)
  • Sunrise, Okain's Bay (35k)
  • Riccarton Bush (31k)
  • Port Levy Saddle, Mt Herbert (49k)
  • Tarn, Mt Herbert (46k)
  • The Port Hills from Mt Herbert (29k)
  • Kaikoura Ranges from Mt Herbert (29k)
  • Rabbit food, Mt Herbert (39k)
  • Rapaki Rock, Christchurch (30k)
  • The Port Hills, Christchurch (42k)
  • Sunset on Port Levy Saddle (30k)
  • The Plains, Bank's Peninsula and Christchurch from the Torlesse Range (45k)
  • Winter view from the Torlesse Range (46k)
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    Miscellaneous - whatever!

  • My only scanned sheep photo (21k)
  • Punting on the Avon, Christchurch, NZ! (29k)
  • The Avon, outside Christchurch Hospital (20k)
  • Clarence river, final campsite (26k)

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