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Taking Time for the View
Remarkable Moonrise I had an hour available on my way home after running some errands in nearby Queenstown, and thought I’d take a quick drive up the access road to the Remarkables Ski Area. Although...
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Don’t Buy It
Selling Success Thru Consuming A recent full page ad on the inside front cover of New Zealand Alpine Club‘s The Climber* Magazine shows a truly burly shot of climber Alex Honnold in Borneo, doing a...
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Winter Scenes in Southern New Zealand
I shot most of these images within the last few days, the panorama was shot this afternoon. Images ©Mountain Spirit Institute Early Morning Light on Lake Wakatipu Mountains Early Morning Light Above...
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NZ: Where Does the Snow Go?
A few days after the storm, the snow will melt to the 500-900m level, leaving the lakeside green and lush as if no storm had ever passed this way. The South Island at 300m does have snowstorms, – we’re...
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New Zealand Lenticulars
It’s been quite windy the last few days, but warming up here in Southern Otago, New Zealand. Spring skiing and ski-touring season. Lenticular clouds (Altocumulus lenticularis) are classic indicators...
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Spring Skiing in New Zealand’s Backcountry
The View of Kingston/Lake Wakatipu From Above “Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.” Walt Whitman The other day, as the...
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Build It & They Will Come
An Outpost of Sustainability Robert and Robyn Guyton were determined to start a food forest instead of mowing a front lawn. And a forest did they grow, when in the mid-’90’s, they purchased some land...
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Mountain Spirit Inst. Offers Programs/Events
Mountain Spirit Institute Offers Upcoming Programs and Special Events Mountain Spirit Institute of the Dartmouth Lake Sunapee Region and Queenstown New Zealand area, is offering programs this summer...
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Listen to the Music – Change the World
The Creation of a Song Can Change the World Doobie Brothers’ Tom Johnston and Elvis Costello in Queenstown, New Zealand, April 2014 I’m here to kindly challenge a comment Doobie Brothers...
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Over-Tourism – Now What Do We Do?
Dexter and Genelle Richards at Dexter’s Inn circa 1940 ©randallrichards I grew up in tourism. My parents started a ski lodge, Dexter’s Inn, in the 1940’s in Sunapee, New Hampshire. I’ve been in and...
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