View from Stag Saddle to Lake Tekapo with Snake Ridge to the right. Photo: Dylan Moron

Cooking up a ridgeline feast

December 2020

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Catching sight of Aoraki/Mt Cook on a tramp is a magic moment; from the ridgeline above Stag Saddle, it’s spellbinding, as Katrina Megget discovers

The wispy mist clung to the grass, to the tin hut, to the grooves of the mountains that towered around us. It gently floated as the rising sun seared holes through it. I was confident the sun would succeed. It had to. Because today was an important day. Stag Saddle, in the Two Thumb Range, […]
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