The Tongariro Crossing and Trip Summary

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March 29th 2011

Published: April 1st 2011

March 14-17 We spent a day exploring a cave with a stream running through it, climbing over a kilometer through the dark with only our headlamps to guide the way. It was awesome, but unfortunately not an ideal place to take photos. To get north from Christchurch I arranged a rental car for free by utilizing a "relocation" deal, which resulted in us driving for a day in one of the worst pieces o... Read Full Entry

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Chad Stoesz

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Well, this is my third backpacking expedition across New Zealand and it looks to be pretty incredible again. We've got an amazing list of tracks and routes we plan to do that will take us through some pretty remote, rugged, and beautiful pieces of wilderness. This will be a 3 month trip and I'm doing it with my good friends Nick and Andrew Arkis. Along the way we will be meeting up with several of my friends from previous trips who plan to travel with us for parts of the time as well. It's very exciting for me to be getting one more opportunity to do this sort of thing, and even more exc... full info

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1st April 2011

Dale
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What a great adventure. Glad you all made it relatively safe and bravo to Nick for losing 50 pounds. Hope to see you soon now that you're home.

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