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 […]
After being chased around by bad weather for the best part of 5 days, Domanic and I managed to get a sneaky flight into the Nun’s Veil. We were able to make a quick ascent and then dropped down to the head of Gorrilla Stream before walking out the next day. A pretty good trip […]
Despite the lateness and realtive dryness of the season, the end of February put on amazing weather and gave us the chance to get out amongst the peaks at the head of the Tasman Glacier. Access onto most of the peaks was actually reasonably good with excellent bridging across the bergshrunds. With basically 10 days […]