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Bob McKerrow - Wayfarer: March 2015
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Bob McKerrow - Wayfarer. Mountains, travel, humanitarian work and opinion. My books are available at:. Tuesday, 31 March 2015. Black Caps: I can point to you and say to my sons, 'live like that'. OVER: Black Caps captain Brendon McCullum hugs Michael Clarke after Australia win the Cricket World Cup. To Brendon McCullum, the Black Caps and their coaching staff, I want to say thank you. As the World Cup has played out, my eldest sons and I have gathered around a computer screen and watched some rather fuzz...
Bob McKerrow - Wayfarer: April 2015
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Bob McKerrow - Wayfarer. Mountains, travel, humanitarian work and opinion. My books are available at:. Saturday, 25 April 2015. Deadly Everest avalanche triggered by Nepal earthquake. Death toll of 13 on world’s highest mountain expected to rise after avalanche sweeps through base camp and traps climbers at higher altitude. Everest base camp is particularly vulnerable, situated on a shoulder of rocky glacial moraine below the Khumbu icefall. Photograph: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters. 8220;Huge disaster. H...
Bob McKerrow - Wayfarer: September 2014
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Bob McKerrow - Wayfarer. Mountains, travel, humanitarian work and opinion. My books are available at:. Thursday, 18 September 2014. Kiwi skier rescues 40kg sheep high on a mountain. Marlborough skier Pete Oswald rescues a 40kg sheep stranded high up the Hector Mountains, in Otago. People often ask me, " Why are you so happy or proud to be a New Zealander? A snowballing sheep will become the stuff of legend for semi-professional skier Pete Oswald. The sheep's head was bent underneath its body. I put t...
Bob McKerrow - Wayfarer: February 2015
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Bob McKerrow - Wayfarer. Mountains, travel, humanitarian work and opinion. My books are available at:. Friday, 20 February 2015. Christchurch earthquake four years on. Brian was a reknowned New Zealand athletics coach and trained many athletes, including myself as a teenager, and 35 years later, my daughter Aroha. The photo above I took in Christchurch with Brian Taylor at QE II in Christchurch with a crop of his athletes in 2009. Here is the SKYPE message Brian sent me on 31 December last year. I will k...
Bob McKerrow - Wayfarer: April 2014
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Bob McKerrow - Wayfarer. Mountains, travel, humanitarian work and opinion. My books are available at:. Wednesday, 30 April 2014. Celebrating May Day in New Zealand. Mr May Day, 1840, New Zealander: Samuel Parnell. The USA, and many other countries claim they pioneered the 40 hour week, but an unsung New Zealander, Sam Parnell, should claim the title for in 1840 he won the right to a 40 hour week. Above: Dunedin Labour Day parade, 1894. Links to this post. May Day New Zealand. Which makes fascinating read...
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Poetry Nest: Ode to Sweet Revenge - Ground Zero Never
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Multas per gentes et multa per aequora vectus. Carried through many nations and over many seas. Advenio has miseras, frater, ad inferias,. I arrived, brother, for these wretched funeral rites. Ut te postremo donarem munere mortis. So that I might present you with the last tribute of death. Et mutam nequiquam alloquerer cinerem. And speak in vain to silent ash,. Quandoquidem fortuna mihi tete abstulit ipsum. Since fortune has carried away from me you in the flesh. Heu miser indigne frater adempte mihi,.
Poetry Nest: A Father's Day Ode
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Multas per gentes et multa per aequora vectus. Carried through many nations and over many seas. Advenio has miseras, frater, ad inferias,. I arrived, brother, for these wretched funeral rites. Ut te postremo donarem munere mortis. So that I might present you with the last tribute of death. Et mutam nequiquam alloquerer cinerem. And speak in vain to silent ash,. Quandoquidem fortuna mihi tete abstulit ipsum. Since fortune has carried away from me you in the flesh. Heu miser indigne frater adempte mihi,.
Poetry Nest: No Friendly Sky America
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Multas per gentes et multa per aequora vectus. Carried through many nations and over many seas. Advenio has miseras, frater, ad inferias,. I arrived, brother, for these wretched funeral rites. Ut te postremo donarem munere mortis. So that I might present you with the last tribute of death. Et mutam nequiquam alloquerer cinerem. And speak in vain to silent ash,. Quandoquidem fortuna mihi tete abstulit ipsum. Since fortune has carried away from me you in the flesh. Heu miser indigne frater adempte mihi,.
Positive News for Cone Hut | Windy Hilltops
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Wellington-biased back-country tramping in New Zealand. About Windy Hilltops / Contact me. Cone Hut trashed by vandals. This coming weekend →. Positive News for Cone Hut. 30 July, 2015. Some have probably already seen this, but following my earlier post. Regarding the vandalism of Cone Hut, Stuff reports that there’s been a positive and concerted effort. Hopefully it’ll be around for another 70 years, with the help of everyone who values it. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window). This coming w...
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Wellington-biased back-country tramping in New Zealand. About Windy Hilltops / Contact me. Unofficial Tracks in Egmont National Park. Cone Hut trashed by vandals →. Updated Hut Maintenance Figures. 30 June, 2015. When back-country hut fees increased several years ago, I wrote with some disappointment about how I saw hut fees as being the price of being honest. I still think that, but it’s not something up for negotiation right now. Lately, in April we had a forum conversation on the NZ Tramper website.
update | Windy Hilltops
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Wellington-biased back-country tramping in New Zealand. About Windy Hilltops / Contact me. Otaki Gorge Road Closed, Also for Foot Access. 22 December, 2015. Just quickly, for now at least, it looks as if Otaki Gorge Road has been closed. Not just for vehicles due to the usual slip, but also to foot access. At this time, it also appears to be indefinite. Alternatively, … Continue reading →. 26 August, 2015. Positive News for Cone Hut. 30 July, 2015. 19 February, 2014. Very briefly, I’d like to help ...
Local Tramping Resources | Windy Hilltops
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Wellington-biased back-country tramping in New Zealand. About Windy Hilltops / Contact me. Land Information New Zealand surveys and provides topographic maps of New Zealand, but besides this there are a variety of ways to get the information. 8212; collates all of New Zealand’s official Topo50 and Topo250 maps into a zoomable, scrollable interface. Great for planning and getting ideas in front of a screen. Collections of Trip Reports. The Tararua Tramping Club Trip List. Ian Fisk’s trip reports. 8212; th...
government policies | Windy Hilltops
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Wellington-biased back-country tramping in New Zealand. About Windy Hilltops / Contact me. Tag Archives: government policies. Overseas tourists and park access fees. 1 March, 2016. It’s difficult to comment on recent calls for tourists to pay a larger share of maintenance of the conservation estate without detail of what’s being proposed. So far nothing’s been formally proposed. This is a recurring topic. The most recent … Continue reading →. That Paparoa National Park Great Walk. 15 November, 2015.
Cone Hut trashed by vandals | Windy Hilltops
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Wellington-biased back-country tramping in New Zealand. About Windy Hilltops / Contact me. Updated Hut Maintenance Figures. Positive News for Cone Hut →. Cone Hut trashed by vandals. 30 June, 2015. I’ve only just written. About what a great deal we’re probably getting on looking after our back-country huts for minimal cost given what’s available, but then this is reported. Arriving and boiling a billy. At Cone Hut. (November 2007.). Members and by DOC, on behalf of the public and the hut’s users. Wants t...
department of conservation | Windy Hilltops
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Wellington-biased back-country tramping in New Zealand. About Windy Hilltops / Contact me. Tag Archives: department of conservation. 27 June, 2016. The two ends of what used to be the Pyramid Route. In the past I’ve dropped a few references to the various tracks around Egmont National Park which have been ‘closed’ (in official terms) in relatively recent times. Reasons have … Continue reading →. Overseas tourists and park access fees. 1 March, 2016. 20 February, 2016. 21 November, 2015. The Tararuas hit ...
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Bob McKerrow - Wayfarer
Bob McKerrow - Wayfarer. Mountains, travel, humanitarian work and opinion. My books are available at:. Wednesday, 21 February 2018. Charles Beken - Christchurch Photographer. One of New Zealand's leading mountain, landscape, flora and portrait photographers was Charles Beken. He was the son of Thomas Beken and Eleanor Hurst born 11 September 1859 on board the immigrant ship "Zealandia" which sailed London 11 August 1859 - arrived Lyttelton 12 November 1859. I offer a word f caution for those researching ...
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