
Learning the Ropes (Part One) – Aoraki / Mt Cook Winter Travel Training
“On a Mish” #35 Learning the Ropes (Part One). Aoraki / Mt Cook Winter Travel Training. Aoraki / Mt Cook National Park.16.7.2011. The year 2011
An accident at the start of 2020 turned out to be a good thing… Thanks to a fridge door I was sidelined for all of 2020 and what seemed like a death sentence turned into NzHikes.co.nz! If I have been forced to sit around, then I’m not going to sit around and do nothing!! One story became 20… 50… and now over 300 tales from the mountains of New Zealand and around the world….

“On a Mish” #35 Learning the Ropes (Part One). Aoraki / Mt Cook Winter Travel Training. Aoraki / Mt Cook National Park.16.7.2011. The year 2011

“A Mish a Day” #184 Mt Somers(1688m) – Part Two. Hakatere Conservation Area. 16.6.2011. Watching the world go by at a comfortable hiking speed has

“A Mish a Day” #87 Middle Mt Peel(1583m) – Part One. Peel Forest Park Scenic Reserve. 30.5.2011. My most vivid childhood memories of being in

“On a Mish” #48 The Trampers Mountain (Part Two). Avalanche Peak(1833m). Arthurs Pass National Park. 10.5.2011. Some mountains are ‘off-limits’ to those who don’t have

“On a Mish” #48 The Trampers Mountain (Part One). Avalanche Peak(1833m). Arthurs Pass National Park. 10.5.2011. Avalanche Peak is a classic trampers mountain with easy

“On a Mish” #98 Everyday is Different – Part Five. The Humpridge Track. Fiordland National Park. 28.4.2011. Without the Humpridge Track the history at Port

“On a Mish” #98 Everyday is Different – Part Four. The Humpridge Track. Fiordland National Park. 28.4.2011. As Track Manager on the Humpridge Track I

“On a Mish” #98 Everyday is Different – Part Three. The Humpridge Track. Fiordland National Park. 27.4.2011. It is awesome that the Humpridge Track finally

“On a Mish” #98 Everyday is Different – Part Two. The Humpridge Track. Fiordland National Park. 26.4.2011. Even though I only worked on the Humpridge

“On a Mish” #98 Everyday is Different – Part One. The Humpridge Track. Fiordland National Park. 25.4.2011. Hidden away on New Zealand’s rugged south coast

“On a Mish” #180 Follow a Man Named John Smith (Part Three). Curraghmore Station. Mackenzie Country. 10.8.2009. My time as a possum trapper on the

Kia Ora Namaste Whanau! “I went to Nepal to see the biggest mountains on the planet and left with the knowledge that the people of

“On a Mish” #443 The Rewards of an Unknown Track (Part Two). North Mavora Lake. Mavora Lakes Reserve. 11.10.2025. It is amazing that you can

“On a Mish” #344 Must Go Camping (Part Two). Lake Coleridge Area to Boundary Hill. Torlesse Conservation Area. 1.8.2022. Many fear the cold, therefore the

“On a Mish” #56 Can’t Cross That (Part Three). Long Charlie Spur(2024m). Whakaari / Richardson Mountains. Mt Aspiring National Park. 21.1.2014. Mountains plus rain equals

“On a Mish” #373 Welcome to Clearwater (Part One). Lake Clearwater Village. Hakatere Conservation Park. 8.5.2023. Once a guide, always a guide. It is hard