A Monday afternoon in the rain at Rasberry Flat.  Quentin, Emma and I met Eric and Graham and sorted our gear.  Emma was a late addition to the team so we threw in a bivy bag and tents for 4. The Matukituki was a usual slog up a cow valley, and at Pearl flat we headed up to Liverpool biv which was a nice quick climb with heavy ...

Hey, the weather looks like it might be quite decent this weekend so is anyone up for some mountain adventures? I have the loose plan of going skiing on Friday at Turoa, but after that am pretty flexible so could meet up with others just keen for the weekend! Some ideas could be:  climb Taranaki and camp on the top  wander up ...

Being Winter, and Tappy (Tapuae-o-Uenuku for the uneducated) being a reasonably high, impressive, though not very technical mountain, a bunch of us decided to go climb it in the middle weekend of the uni holidays. That bunch consisted of me, Guy, Terra, Annabel, Morgan, Craig S and Alyn. Rumours of more technical mountains such as Alarm and Mitre ...

Hi everyone, I'm planning to go up to the mountain this weekend. I'm heading up up on Sunday or maybe Monday for the day. I've got a car but only my restricted so I'm happy to take people if someone has had their full for two years (I don't feel like fines sorry!). I've got one space in the ski rack and a reasonable size boot for ...

Last night I wrote an extremely basic webpage for checking the ski reports on your cellphone: http://cubalan.net.nz/snow/ Check it out on your computer first, but there are three pages(summary, detail for each field), and its about 10 times smaller data wise than the official sites. Should prove useful, and more info than txt/phone ...

Hi guys, A group of us head up any weekend we can, usually leaving early(5am) Saturday and coming back Sunday evening. We stay at The Crossing backpackers. Most often we have 4 in the car, but I'll be sure to post when we have a space free! Where do you others stay?  

Yes a meeting not to be missed! Ritchie's photo shows and stories never disappoint. There will also be sign up sheets for both trips, and for mid winter a call for a $50 deposit will be needed to assist us secure transport bookings, preferably on signing up with the balance payable no later than 10 days before travel. If at all interested in ...

Hey,   well I guess I can't miss that - so to the south after Ollies 21st!!! :)

Arr Kieran, E'd prob'ly bee raally keen tu go thar we'kand arrf tarr, this we'kand might bee arr bet of arr push forr mae.   ARRRRRRH! Ye all bee Swashbucklers!! 

My work is sending me to Southland, and I have a some days to kill on the 6-8 August. If anyone feels like a pioneering, Speightsman adventure, will be in Southland/Otago on that Monday-Wednesday, and wants to come with us (OK a bit of a stretch....) come join us!  I'm going to head up Old Man Range - one of the windswept tussock ranges down ...