Franz Josef Glacier

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February 22nd 2011

Published: February 22nd 2011

February 16 We stayed in the room until checkout time, wanting to enjoy it's comfort until the last possible moment, and then headed into town to update our blogs and do some grocery shopping. With all that done, we headed back to Makarora to see what the chances were of crossing the river and starting the Rabbit Pass tramp. As expected, the lady at DoC said "uncrossable" as she has for the pas... 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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26th February 2011

Dale Fort
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Earthquake
Chad - did the earthquake in Christ Church impact you guys at all? Hope you are all okay.

1st March 2011

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Chad Stoesz

earthquake
Hey Dale, no the earthquake didn't affect us at all. We were 3 hours away when it hit and didn't feel it. There was a momentary rush on bread, milk, and gas, but then it calmed down. our friends in christchurch were ok also. But the city as a whole has sustained a LOT of damage, measured in the 15-20 billion dollar range. We can't get into the downtown area yet because a week later they are still pulling bodies out from the rubble.

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