2009 Expedition: The Cascade Saddle Route

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December 20th 2009

Published: July 29th 2010

December 16, 2009 This morning, after doing the things we had planned to do yesterday, but had blown off in favor of hot-tubbing instead, we set to work about figuring out how to get up the road into the Matukituki Valley to start the next track. Hitchhiking was our preference, but seemed unlikely since this was another 50km dead-end dirt road leading deep into the mountains. We settled on payi... 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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