Beautiful evening at Monaco point in Nelson

Enthusiastic climbers!

Cheated a bit.  This is from 2010 - climbing up the Mount in Tauranga...

Raro again

Just back from Rarotonga.  More photos to follow, I'm sure.

Butt shots

Because I'm normally tail end charlie when tramping, most of the shots I take of the other trampers in my party tend to be from the rear... AKA butt shots.

My kids get sick of this.

Now we tramped with some amazing people on the Routeburn.

Going out we tramped with Hamish, Janin and family.

Coming home with Glen and Jamie.

This poses risks when you are no longer tail end charlie.  I was in the middle of getting a great butt shot of Jakob (below), when I was caught out by Glen behind me.  Just managed to straighten out in time ☺

Iciles, Icicles baby...

Some were up to a meter long!

Stunning, stunning Routeburn track.

Simply awesome week on a double-traverse of the Routeburn track.  If anything the weather only added to the experience.  This is Jakob, about to go into the worst of it.

Stunning track, and stunning people to walk it with.  Will probably look to do it again next year with Eli in tow this time.

Happy new years eve everyone

New years eve

One last shot from my Mt Fyffe trip. Sunset again! It really was a magical evening.

Beautiful light on Mt Fyffe, in the Kaikouras

Banks Peninsula at sunset. Taken from 150km away, on Mt Fyffe in the Kaikouras

Banks Peninsula is the furtherst line of hills.  Oaro, where the coast road heads into the hunderlee hills, is the next nearest.

Sunset over the Inland Kaikouras. From Mt Fyffe

No need to panic!  The hills aren't actually on fire!

Starting our trip to Rarotonga.

Boys will be boys...

Awesome thought

Awesome thought by Joe at rechurch today:
"Why place your Hope in riches, when you can place your Hope in He who richly provides. "

Hill running (with a lot of walking) above Porters pass

Tramping with the boys in the kaikouras

Styx mill reserve

Completely blocked after the winds last night.

An extravagant lunch

From broodebakers in Blenheim.   Eating at Wither Hills where I ran last night.   Figure between the run and the food wither hills has me calorie neutral!

Blenheim at night

I went for a run up in the hills above Blenheim at Wither Hills Farm Park.   Spectacular and highly recommended! 

Robert Ridge - Lake Angelus

This one was taken from further up the ridge

Lake Angelus

One of my favourite tramps is the route up to Lake Angelus, perched in between Lakes Rotoroa and Rotoiti in Nelson Lakes National Park.

This shot is taken from low down on one of the easier routes up to the lake - Robert Ridge. This ridge rises from the north-west side of Lake Rotoiti - here we see back down the ridge towards the Lake, and across to St Arnaud.