And from Youtube....again

One of my favourate scenes in a film about tramping. From a film that could not be further removed from tramping. One of the greats... love it! Must be the Scottish in me....

A few random Mountain Man pics

From all over the traps really, great times and some of you AUTC trainspotters may spot familiar faces ...you can click on the pics for big fat blowups :-)

The Final Run-In

Well I absolutely stuffed myself on the 15km run home for work in what will be the last big hit out before Saturday Race Day.

Probably had something to do with the 20km in the Waitakere's yesterday from Karekare to Whatipu along the hills and then back up the beach. What a stunner of a day I'll let the pics do the talking!

So it's off to the Mainland tomorrow and the drive down through Central Otago is always a treat at this time of year- the colours of autumn like no other place in NZ.

Latest weather prognoses for Saturday range from snow to 700m down there to a big fat high sitting over the South Island. Fingers crossed for the latter... but snow would be quite surreal given I had my first ever May swim in the ocean in NZ yesterday- and yes it was even warm!

Not To State The Obvious....

...but sometimes human nature just can't resist danger huh? It's called "Summit Fever"

For those not in the know, Mt Ngauruhoe has been showing significant signs of volcanic tremor for the past few months. Maybe theres something about to happen...its been a while for this mountain- 1975 was the last big blast there. Look out for volcanic activity here:

http://www.geonet.org.nz/volcanocam.html

....but beware of the White Island Dino-saur.....

Anyway, back to the matters at hand... on our way up to Not Entering Said Crater we passed several unique lava flows, with some funky shapes, including this - the Hound of South Crater anyone?