Thursday, 18 April 2013

Mt. Cook


           
All right these are some backlogged posts.  I’m bad at keeping this thing current.  But I have been effectively told off, so there’ll be a flood of post for a bit.  I’ll try to make more frequent/regular updates.   This short first one details events from the week of March 11:


 It’s a rather rare day that Haya Jamali shows up in New Zealand (actually it would probably be quite frequent if Emily was sticking around; both Whitman kids for those who don’t know) as such we honored the occasion by heading down to Mt. Cook.   It was a short trip (I was skipping out on some work I probably should have been doing) and photos of the area really better describe the place then I can.   Suffice it to say that I’m stoked to go back there in the spring to climb.   It reminded me of the North Cascades with sketchier rock and bigger glaciers.   It was a good break from preparing for my upcoming fieldwork.   As always great to see people from home!  After the trip was the usual hanging around CHCH and making and eating good food before I headed up for round 1 of sampling.

The evening drive in.

The morning wake up view.


Emily and Haya on the start of the Hooker Valley.

Cook.

The quintessential Mt. Cook view from Lake Pukaki


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