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NZ mountaineering over easter! 8-Feb-2012 At 12:19:24 PM Llewg

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Hi all,

First post, wooo – although I think I check in here reasonably regularly. My usual climbing buddy has bailed to Europe for the year so I’m looking for anyone that might be interested in heading over to NZ for 9 or 10 days over the Easter break (second week of April) for some late season mountaineering.

First break I’ve been able to get over the summer, so hoping to squeeze a trip in before the season ends. I don’t suppose anyone has climbed in April before?

Pretty open to suggestions, but I had a thought that the full nw ridge of Aspiring could be pretty interesting at that time of year.

Mountaineering experience is probably in the medium range? Mostly in the states. I’ve headed up probably 7 or 8 14’000ft ers on the west coast via a bunch of different routes, plus up the cooky cutter route on Denali. Comfortable using two tools on snow, some experience on mixed, and very limited on straight ice. Aside from a TMC a few years back I’ve only returned to NZ for one other shindig (which was almost completely weathered out).

Sports climb up to 22, comfortable on trad to 20. Based in sydney.

Let me know!

Llew