Trip report: Angelus Peak Thrice in Three Days, December 4 to 9
14 Dec 2025
I lost my phone near the summit of Angelus Peak, but recovered it on the second try (oof).
November: photos post
12 Dec 2025
Less procrastination in November, though also no travel, so still a high number of photos processed. Notably, the oldest unprocessed set is now December 2023, so less than 2 years of backlog.
October: Wellington, Ontario, and Whitehorse
19 Nov 2025
Mostly NSERC Discovery Grant editing, plus a Wilderness First Responder recert and the Ontario Open.
Submission on the NZ Fast-Track Approvals Amendment Bill
16 Nov 2025
Back to the negative submissions about NZ legislation, this time about an underhanded attempt to modify the Fast-Track Amendment Bill by claiming it’s about supermarkets.
October: photos post
2 Nov 2025
In October I was working on my NSERC Discovery proposal, so I may have procrastinated sometimes by processing pictures. I selected way more pictures than in any recent month (1330 versus 846 in July), and the total number of pictures in the pool was 16% higher in July (3883 versus 2642). July did include a large collection of Estonian bird photos (710) and a walk up to Apostolidis (528). This month, on the other hand, I had lots of tiny sets, including in-transit days. Still, there were 13 over-100-picture days. (updated: spreadsheet error)
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.
