September: South Island and Auckland, as well as Wellington
11 Oct 2025
Some domestic NZ travel (more skiing than usual) and then just work (research and service) as normal.
September: photos post
3 Oct 2025
September was down again in terms of number of pictures processed, but I was not at a computer for many days in September. (I wonder if I could correlate the number of travel days with the number of pictures processed). There are only 9GB of new pictures from September, so maybe not adding too much to the backlog. Desperately trying to have less than a two-year picture backlog. Looking at the chronological order, there are some big trips in the backlog, like New Caledonia in November 2023 and the Travers Sabine in February 2024. It is challenging when there is a set of 400 pictures from a day.
August: Europe, Canada, then back to New Zealand despite an Air Canada strike
23 Sep 2025
Grenoble, Montreal, Beaver Valley, stuck in Ontario, and then Auckland. Master’s graduates +1. Lots of service and volunteering.
August: photos post
11 Sep 2025
I took some more pictures in August, but not as many as July. I also somehow had less time to process pictures. Plus, there are a couple of sets that I’m not posting here. I don’t know if I dug myself deeper into a hole. Caught up a bit with some May and July photos, as well as some August phohtos. Anyway, less than July but more than June.
More flight shenanigans: late August / early September with Air New Zealand
10 Sep 2025
Not out of the woods yet. Weather and other issues (but mostly weather) causing flight issues in New Zealand.
July: more travels and some scholarly outputs
25 Aug 2025
Mount Olympus (Greece), the Tour du Mont Blanc, and a VSTTE submission.
Trip report: Tour du Mont Blanc, July 21 to August 1, 2025
24 Aug 2025
The Tour du Mont Blanc, 170km of walking around Mont Blanc (and some cable cars).
Trip report: Seven Summits Project, Mount Olympus, July 9 to 13, 2025
23 Aug 2025
Attempted some summits on Mount Olympus. Got the big two: Stefani and Mytikas. But not the whole set.
Me and the Air Canada Flight Attendant Strike
22 Aug 2025
How I managed to fly to New Zealand as soon as possible after the Air Canada Flight Attendant strike, oof.
Submission re: Amendment to the Devil's Glen Provincial Park Management Plan
10 Aug 2025
Yay! A submission wholly in support of a government initiative (Ontario) which legitimizes climbing at Devil’s Glen Provincial Park (and hopefully others in the future).
