After about 24 hrs of travel and four plane rides today, I will be in Christchurch, New Zealand…two days later. It’s a nineteen hour time difference between Jackson (MST) and Christchurch (NZDT), and my longest leg is from Los Angeles to Auckland…which looks to be about a 13 hour flight. OUCH! Hopefully a coupe sleep-aids will help me manage the journey, but I never really can rest that well on planes…at least when I’m in the cheap seats.
It’s been a battle to fit everything I want to bring and still be under the 100lb limit (split between two bags), but I think I’ve made the right choices and left out what I can. Luckly the currently exchange rate in New Zealand about $1.4NZ to $1US, so I’ve got that going for me if I need to buy anything important.
Mount Cook in 2006.
I’m not bringing a satellite phone or BGAN unit on this trip, so posts on TetonAT will be pretty sporadic over the next four weeks. Sorry, but I’m sure you will all be fine without me for a little while, as you wait for the snow to fly. I sure hope it comes in early this year, because it would be great to come back from New Zealand and launch right into winter here in the states.
Anyway mates, it’s time to go…so ciao, for now!!!
Good luck Bromeo. Slay some lines cowboy style for us stuck in the current heat wave. Look forward to seeing some pictures soon!
thanks jp…and happy birthday!
no doubt about the “heat wave”…wtf!? it will probably at least be raining in new zealand. 🙂
Have fun in New-Zealand!
Have fun! NZ is my favorite place…
Have a great time down there man! I’m living vicariously through you and the awesome pics. Cheers!
I hope you can bring some decent weather with you, after the worst ski season in ten years, the weather this spring has been aweful!
Despite a late dump of snow (about 3 metres) the gale Sou-westerlies at 120 km/h have swung around to Nor-westerlies bringing rain….
I’ve put off my trip to Mt Cook until November.
Good luck, Steve. Have a great trip!
thanks y’all!
yeah mac…50mm of rain in 3 hours predicted today. but at least all my bags made it!
Steve,
I don’t have to tell you to have fun, you have that dialed in just fine.Your very jealous friends at http://www.klmountainshop.com. See ya in JH sometime this winter.
Steve, can you, more will you trade places with me. I am a student at the Colorado School of Mines, taking prerequisites for my graduate degree. These classes make me want to cry and I think, with your ample skiing experience, you would be able to carve them up like a easy little ski slope. Sorry, this is mere longing. Your trip looks epic and you live the life all of us wish we could live.