Biking and tramping trip blogs

As the last handful of spot-heights have ticked by, I've been trying to think of a suitable way to finish them off. Two are on the Main ...

A bit of a non-event this weekend. Some misbegotten cartographer placed a spot on a terrace on the other side of Smith's Creek from the ...

I realised the other day that I had never actually climbed the highest peak in the Tararuas. This will appear barely credible given my unh...

There's still a few spot-heights I need to see to around the Mangahao dams. One of these is the somewhat tersely named 'Peak.'  ...

The Inuit probably don't have 50 different words for snow but there is a case to be made for more words describing scrub. The northern ...