A happy-go-lucky English rambler dude goes to New Zealand for a year. Here he interfaces with some of those he left behind and details his nefarious activities. Or summat.
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Monday, February 25, 2002 What a wonderful world :oD I've just had the kind of weekend that made me want to come to New Zealand in the first place.
Went to stay at Jo's on Saturday night, to prepare for a hard day's mountaineering down south on the Sunday. But the morning brought hangovers and shite weather, so we headed off to the Lake Tekapo area to hopefully get some better weather. Happily the skies were blue on the other side of the Mount Peel hills, and after buying a map of the area, there turned out to be only one mountain that we could go for that day - Mount Edward! (er, Edward is my surname for random passers by).
Lake Tekapo is one of the most beautiful areas i've passed through in New Zealand, and it just looked better and better the higher we got.
The route to the summit at 1916 metres, was a long ridge, which got steeper towards the top. It wasn't really tough going, but a lack of excercise recently, and a gale force wind did force me to break sweat on occasion ;o)
It's hard to do the views justice with my limited vocabulary, but it really was one of the most beautiful sights imaginable, with huge ranges of mountains in all directions, including 'The Daddy', Mount Cook, vast flat plains stretching off into the endless distance, as well as the incredible blues of Lake Tekapo and Pukaki glowing away below us.
As you'd expect, i took a couple of pictures, so hopefully when i get them back i'll be able to illustrate what i'm going on about slightly better, but for now i've included a picture of Tekapo i've pinched off the web, as well as the all important route details!
