Mountain Guide Gary Dickson and his team of three have just returned from a ski tour based out of Tasman saddle Hut at the head of the Tasman Glacier . A week of great weather, good snow and great banter.
Ski tour Tasman Glacier
Tag Archives: Wanaka New Zealand
Climbing course NZ
Coming up in December, IFMGA Mountain Guide Gary Dickson will be delivering a classic week long Alpine skills course for Alpine Guides Aoraki. Have a desire to learn from one of New Zealands leading mountaineering instructors?
Fox Glacier ski tour
Just back from a week of magnificent ski touring at the head of the Fox Glacier, based out of Pioneer hut 2400m , with a young, enthusiastic couple from Nelson. Wow , what a great settled week of weather.
Skinning back to Pioneer hut 2400m, Fox Glacier after ski touring for the day. What a spectacular home for a week!
Descending at the end of the ski tour to Chancellor Hut perched beautifully above the Fox Glacier hard ice
Ski touring locally
Ski touring locally off the back of Treble Cone and Cardrona is looking good as the snow is there and the storms have put the snow down. A reasonable cover of snow has been good for the ski fields and also the back country ski touring conditions. The weather forecast this coming week is for great sunniness and excellent local ski touring.
Recently on the Treble Cone back country – new storm snow brewing…
Recent ski touring off the back of Treble Cone ski field
Mountaineering West Coast
What an awesome sunset – what to experience on your West Coast of NZ mountaineering trip
8 day mountaineering trip – destination, West Coast of the NZ Southern Alps. Base, Pioneer Hut 2400m. Lots of glacier, snow and ice.
Great weather and Primo conditions were had by Mountain Guide Gary and Australian mountaineers Fernando and Jamie.
Summit of Grey Peak, Main divide, Southern Alps
Descending to Chancellor hut, Fox Glacier
Outside Pioneer Hut, ready to go classic west coast mountaineering
Arrival back in NZ – ski touring
On the 19th of September, Gary and Iris will arrive back from Switzerland to their Wanaka , NZ base . Ski touring is on the agenda. Late winter /spring is a superb time to take your winter ski fitness, and enjoy the warmer temps and more stable and stronger snow to go ski touring based out of the NZ alpine huts in the middle of awesome glaciated terrain. Come join us…..
Glacier Ski touring in New Zealand
Magnificent glacier features to ski around, explore, photograph, experience….
Ski touring in NewZealand
Winter in NZ has arrived down under. Enjoy the slopes and get into the groove and shape for an awesome ski tour in late Winter/Spring( the most superb time for alpine ski touring on the NZ Glaciers).
The Alpinism & Ski team will be back from the Dolomites Mid September, back at the Wanaka Base ready for a great Kiwi ski touring season.
Enjoy the snow…. 🙂
Fresh winter snow – September ski touring in NZ
Fox Glacier Guides specialized mountain training
October. 10 days on the wild west coast of New Zealand. Mountain Guide Gary Dickson has just been working with the senior staff of Fox Glacier Guiding with some specialized mountain training. Chancellor Hut beautifully situated above the Fox Icefall was a great location as a base for some of the training. Chancellor dome and the Fox Ice provided great terrain.
Gaz On the Fox Icefall, FGG specialized mountain training
Gaz meandering thru a fantastic ice tunnel currently formed on the Fox Glacier.
Mountain safety for Epic mountain bike event
Saturday 16 April 2016 – Yes, the annual Epic mountain bike event around Lake Hawea was once again a great success with Mountain Guide Gary again providing safety services for this event to run safely and smoothly. 600 riders having one of the rides of their lives through rugged and spectacular Wanaka region high country.
Wanaka, New Zealand
Our main base is Wanaka here in Central Otago, New Zealand.
We live on the shores of Lake Wanaka. The climate in Wanaka is dry as it is out of the mountain weather so ideal for preparing for a trip or hanging out waiting for a weather change before going into the big mountains.
Wanaka as a town is just the right size for having the conviences of modern living, but not overly busy. We have nice recreation options such as rock climbing, sailing, mountain biking, wine tasting….
Wanaka is idealy suited as a base for a mountain guiding operation as it is central for access to the southern alps. Mt Aspiring national park is at our door step, Mt Cook National Park is 2.5hrs drive away and Fox glacier, gateway to the Fox and Franz Josef glacier region is 3 hrs away.
Queenstown has an international airport or connects easily for our guests to international flights out of Christchurch, Wellington or Auckland, and is only 40 minutes drive away over the crown range for us to come and pick you up – yep , nice and handy.
