Trip Reports/Stories
Trip Reports/StoriesAugust 1st, 2007
Despite what you read in Outside, Climbing or Alpinist about enduring epics, it was just one of those days when I did not want to be on the rock.
We had ascended to a Refugio by cable car the previous afternoon and it had snowed for the remainder of the afternoon and into the night. The experience of the previous day had taught me that any form of moisture on the obvious hand and foot holds would make them extremely slippery.
The Tongariro Crossing »June 30th, 2007
For the first hour we climbed beside lava flows that had been laid down in 1953 during the last great eruption. There was a stream with cascades and a waterfall and a soda spring before a steep trail led to the top of a plateau below the cone of Ngauruhoe.
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