So it has been a while since our last post, what has been happening? Well I flew back to NZ in the middle of Jan to do a training course with an american company called NOLS (National Outdoor Leadership School) This was a 35 day course 30 of which was hiking in the backcountry. We hiked from the West coast from Lake Brunner and ended up at Klondyke Courner east of Arthurs Pass. Heres some photos...
The first few days were spent organising our gear and food, This is how much food we had for the whole 30 days feeding 11 people...
Our accommodation was superb!
Our food was resupplied by Dando the helicopter pilot approximatly every 8 days
The crew on the main divide 
Me strutting my stuff
Big hills, small people
Stopped by Otehake hot springs, found some fellas to wave fronds over us! hehehe
The calm before the storm, we got stuck here for 3 days waiting out the rain, a river had a few lakes had formed by the time we left.
Playing in the snow, crevasse rescue exercise.
Abseiling down onto the glacier
Contemplating what line to take
Cooking on Waimak col, great veiw of the glaciers
Walking out of the moutains
Taking a bath, the water was freezing!
There are so many photos its hard to choose what to show you, but anyway you get the picture, we had awsome weather until the end on our moutaineering section, where it rained and snowed. But an awesome trip.
Wel'l keep you posted on our next adventure we fly out to the States in 2 days time, watch this space...
2 comments:
Hey Jacs, looks like heaps of fun. Stoked!! See ya tomorrow in Portland missy - let the adventures continue. Booyah!
looks like a mean mission. Super cool Jacs. Have fun in the states guys!
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