It's definatley that time of year, and I don't mean Christmas. Every time I go away on expedition, in the last week before I leave the courier come knocking – almost daily. Sometimes it's with relief as the equipment has had to come from overseas and through customs – it's never nice getting an extra […]
August 16th Well so far it's been awesome! In a nut shell I've been pretty busy doing avalanche study, ski touring, heliski guiding and occasionally fitting in a bit of speedflying 🙂 I've been mostly working with Southern Lakes Heliski this winter, doing the normal heliskiing day out in our great back country or having […]
Paul Aubrey just dropped around to show me the rig he used to fly off the Low Peak on Aoraki back in 1985 … The Canopy is called a Paraporter and hadn't been out of the reversable pack / harness for 20 years! Took a bit to get it airborne (ground handling) but once up […]
Things don’t always go to plan ….. I met up with Craig at the Adventure Consultant office in Wanaka. He’s fresh off the plane from Sydney and keen to get out into the the hills for a skills update and to try to sneak in an ascent of Mt Aspiring. The only problem we have […]