Arthurs Pass to Mt Cook

16 Mar 202321 Jan 2016 by Jacqui

Date: 19 December 2015 to 2 January 2016.
Trip type: Alpine tramping.
Location: Canterbury High Country.
Author: Kevin Cole.
Trampers: Megan Sety, Illona Keenan, Kevin Cole, Tony Gazley.

This guide covers route details for a 14 day tramp on the east side of the Southern Alps from Arthur’s Pass to the Godley Valley during Dec 2015/ Jan 2016. Our trip planning was helped by several websites and blogs and so we hope that this document will be pay back and help anyone hoping … Read more

Too Cloudy Peak

11 Apr 202226 Mar 2015 by Jacqui

Date: 13-16 February 2015.
Trip type: ALP 3.
Location: Nowhere.
Author: Mike Phethean.
Trampers: Mike Schier (leader), Brendan Eckert, Mike Phethean.

This trip appeared on the schedule and immediately got my interest, partly because as chief guide I didn’t put it there and partly because I hadn’t heard of the place. Mike explained that cloudy peak (well actually not all of this, consider it a narrative thing) is a rock climbers paradise in the middle of the … Read more