Ben Starkey rides in front of Bristol Top, near the Pioneer Hut, NZ. Click photo for trip report. Yeah BOY!!! Another trip report from down here skiing in New Zealand around the Pioneer Hut and Fox Glacier zone, is now up on the BD Journal site. Click HERE to check it out…and once again, thanks [...]
Archive for October, 2010
Skiing in Westlands NP, New Zealand, Part II
by October 27th, 2010Skiing in Westlands NP, New Zealand, Part I
by October 24th, 2010Scott Fennell skins above the Centennial Hut. Just back from Aspiring. Pretty good adventure, but no summit. There is a trip report from the Centennial Hut with some great photos by Scott Fennell posted over on the Black Diamond Journal. Click HERE to check it out. Please feel free to leave comments on this post or [...]
Launching for Mount Aspiring
by October 19th, 2010View of the Northwest Ridge of Mount Aspiring. The crux of the descent will be how icy the route is. Photo courtesy MatthewTurley.com I’ve been hanging out here in Wanaka for a few days. There have been a few fine spells here and there, and we managed to get out for a skin up the [...]
Grand Targhee Resort Adds Backcountry Access Gate
by October 16th, 2010Some great news coming from home and over the pass at Grand Targhee while I‘m here in New Zealand. Grand Targhee Resort will add a backcountry gate which will allow skiers access to the backcountry terrain on the backside of the mountain. The new gate will be called Scott’s Gate and will be located at [...]
Nez Perce Triple Crown
by October 15th, 2010Skiing West Hourglass Couloir on Nez Perce. Photo by Mark Fisher, courtesy Black Diamond Equipment. Please click HERE to check out a little story and video from a link up I did with Reed Finlay of the Sliver, the East and West Hourglass Couloirs on Nez Perce last season. It was a long day, but [...]
Pioneer Hut…Loo With a View
by October 15th, 2010View of Mount Tasman from the outhouse of the Pioneer Hut. Click photo for larger image. Just a quick update from down here in New Zealand. I’m just out from the Pioneer Hut and laying over in the town of Fox, before heading further south for some weather days in Wanaka. As you can see [...]
Time In…Up To Pioneer Hut
by October 10th, 2010Pioneer Hut from Von Bulow. My finger is feeling a bit better and it looks like there is another high pressure system rolling in for a few days, so I’m catching a heli ride and heading back up into the mountains and the Pioneer Hut on Monday…New Zealand time. The Pioneer Hut sits in the [...]
Delay Of Game
by October 6th, 2010I’m dealing with a little adversity right now. I cut my finger badly on the first day in the mountains and after five days of skiing under sunny skies, my wound is still throbbing and bleeding. Therefore, I decided to fly out solo today to have it looked at, cleaned, bandaged and given a rest [...]
Ski Here Now!
by October 1st, 2010Hey Folks! Waiting for the winds to die down here in Franz Joseph, New Zealand, so we can fly into the Centennial Hut. Looks like some fine days in the forecast through the middle of the weeks. So, once we are there, we should have a good start to our adventure. Check out this new [...]
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