Skiing the Routeburn

May 2012

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May 2012

Not content to simply walk one of New Zealand’s premier tramping tracks, Scott Kennedy decides to ski it It was around 10 years ago that I flipped through a Colin Monteath pictorial book illustrating a traverse he made of Routeburn Track on skis. It was hard to resist planning a similar adventure, something that would […]

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