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Foggy skiing

Very helpful to appreciate sauna and hot wine aftewards.

... fortunately no one was injured this day.

Skiing sceneries 2007

This day Turoa forecast was not promising and we made wise decision to go Whakapapa.

Few beautiful scenery pictures from there.

Rails, Bikes and Streams 2006

This day, cycling from RMC to National Park, we discovered a nice hidden stream across the railway.

Cycling around Ruapehu 2008

Leisure warming up for the Ruapehu Classic Race.

Ruapehu Classic 2008

Few fragments from “Ruapehu Classic“ cycling Race 2008.

Going 160km counterclock around the mount it provides fantastic mountain views, great landscapes and endurance altitude changes up to 700m.

Organisation is superb, amount of riders is not overcrowded - we enjoyed the race a lot.

Mountain Bath

This is real spell of the mountain in summer time.

Highlanders say bathing in snowy streams drops 10 years off your age.

Climbing Ngaruahoe 2006

Fragments from a half-day trip from RMC, Ohakune to Tongariro Crossing track and up to Ngaruahoe crater

The morning of 30^th December 2005 was not really summer like: low clouds, cold, patchy rains... so we (Alex and George) kept our expectation to fulfil our planned Ngaruahoe climb pretty low. However, fearfully watching the clouds, we made one little step after another up the slope and suddenly found ourselves at the sulphur breathing crater.

To say Tongariro Crossing track was unusually unpopulated this day :-)