Category: Sounds to Sounds
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This path ends…on to the next!
Christchurch is the largest city in South Island, with about 450,000 people, a bit more than 1/3 of the total population of South Island. And it’s the place I’ll be flying from to Brisbane. It’s a shock to be in a real city after being mostly in the sticks. I stayed 4 nights here in…
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Last 2 days into Christchurch
Perhaps it was that I wanted to drag out the last 2 days coming to my departure point. Or maybe it was that the rain and cold was pointing out that staying put for a couple days was a good idea. In any case, from a distance perspective I could have easily ridden faster and…
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Mt Somers and Glentunnel: Fall is coming!
Since I took a bus to Geraldine from Queenstown following my adventure ending in the helicopter evacuation, I had about 200 miles less riding to get to Christchurch compared with my original plan. And so, I’ve been going slower – riding about 40 miles every other day and staying a couple days in small towns…
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Onwards towards Christchurch…slowly.
After spending a night with Chris and Jay in Queenstown, we all left for our respective destinations the following day: Chris to Brisbane, Jay back to Boulder and me to Geraldine, a town that we had stayed in once before by car, and also on the Sounds to Sounds route that I was following back…
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Final thoughts on getting stranded and evacuated
I posted to the Sounds to Sounds Facebook group about my experience as soon as the helicopter dropped me in Wanaka. I wanted to warn others that rain could make the stream crossings impassable and dangerous. I wasn’t sure if others would all know something I didn’t, but I figured it would be helpful. It…