Trip report: Overland Track, Tasmania—part 1, Australia vs New Zealand, and overall impressions
11 May 2024
Advertised as “Australia’s premier alpine walk”, we had six days with outstanding weather and scenery in Tasmania. In this part, I compare our Australian hiking experience with the New Zealand Great Walks.
March: more bad professional news from 2023 efforts, Canada trip, Wānaka climbing, and start of the Whanganui River Journey
10 Apr 2024
In from Sydney, out to Vancouver, with a hike in the middle, and some research and service.
Trip report: Whanganui Journey—five days canoeing on the Whanganui river
8 Apr 2024
Great Walk #9: not a walk at all, but a 145km canoe trip down the Whanganui River, with gentle rapids. We got there using public transit.
February: Travers-Sabine; and, entering NZ at the start and leaving NZ at the end
11 Mar 2024
In from Sydney, out to Vancouver, with a hike in the middle, and some research and service.
Trip report: refereeing in Abbotsford, Edmonton, and a quick trip to Toronto/Waterloo
10 Mar 2024
March has two Canadian circuit judo tournaments: Pacific International and Edmonton International. I also stopped by Waterloo for two days and took care of some business.
January: Nelson, Wellington, other Nelson, and Sydney
14 Feb 2024
I’m really not experiencing large blocks of unstructured time right now, particularly with all the reviewing I’m doing. But it is true that I don’t have any teaching to prepare, at least.
In any case, I haven’t had time to write the January report, or a report on all of 2023, having been in Sydney and then almost immediately onto the Travers-Sabine Circuit in early February. Well, February is only half over! Though at this rate I should start the March report.
Review: On Cold Iron by Dan Levert
11 Feb 2024
About the history of engineering: the Canadian Iron Ring Ceremony and the Quebec Bridge disaster.
December: taking all the courses
4 Jan 2024
Travel month with Wilderness First Responder and Avalanche Skills Training 2, and Christmas in Montreal.
November: almost entirely staying put in Wellington
7 Dec 2023
PLDI submission and trip to New Caledonia. Just the routine.
Review: The Last Front Line by Brendan O'Dwyer
14 Nov 2023
How the sausage is made: Brendan O’Dwyer writes about building the Paparoa Great Walk on NZ’s West Coast.
