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cavemonkey
Ice climber
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Topic Author's Original Post - Nov 21, 2012 - 10:39pm PT
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headin to nz for dec jan with a lady friend
will be on the south island mainly
hoping to do some rock climbing but also would like to expand my horizons
suggestions?
also,.. having a hard time packing,
from alaska and can only imagine what it will be like
tips????
cheers
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Decko
Trad climber
Colorado
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Nov 22, 2012 - 12:04am PT
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Heaps of sport climbing to be had with pleasant weather
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johnkelley
climber
Anchorage Alaska
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Nov 22, 2012 - 12:12am PT
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Drink some flat whites, eat some meat pies, and fish for browns.
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johnkelley
climber
Anchorage Alaska
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Nov 22, 2012 - 12:30am PT
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Smoke some dak too
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shipoopoi
Big Wall climber
oakland
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Nov 22, 2012 - 12:34am PT
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cavemonkey, there's some good craggin above christchurch, but i would head first to castle hill, a bouldering area an hour or two west of town, where you can meet lots of locals in an awesome setting, and take it from there, ss
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Nov 22, 2012 - 12:35am PT
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If you can't have a good time in NZ, you don't know what a good time is.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Nov 22, 2012 - 12:38am PT
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hey there say, cavemonkey... a volcano, just 'went off' a few days agao...
planes were intertupted, too....
BUT--from what i heard, all is well now....
good that you missed this...
hoping it does not happen again, or that it does not trigger earthquakes...
depending on where you stay, some areas have been having them off and on, for quite a spell...
happy safe trip, and hope you find special places for
climbing, etc...
:)
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sempervirens
climber
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Nov 22, 2012 - 12:43am PT
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My favorite place of my 10 weeks on the south island was Stewart Island - yeah it is a separate island, obviously. It was an afternoon's ferry ride from the southern tip of the south island. Did get rained on plenty but still enjoyed the rain forest trekking past tree ferns to a thing called the Chocolate Swamp and place called The Gutter on the beach. It was summer but we barely swam at all - cool weather and cool water. We saw a few penguins and caught a few fish. There were very few other tourists and they were also the backpacker crowd there for the nature.
The Franz-Josef Glacier is a must see, on the west coast of the South Island. And I still regret not doing the adventurous trek over the glacier and into Mt Cook National Park.
It was 1990 that I speak of, I'd guess there have been some changes.
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Phil_B
Social climber
Hercules, CA
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Mar 10, 2013 - 11:55pm PT
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Hey St'ers,
Cleo and I are in Christchurch for a week or so, looking for jobs. Any monkeys out there in this neck of the woods?
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