I had a little bit of time for pictures in February. Not much, but more than in January, and about one-third of December's output. #Birds #BirdsNZ #Alps

https://patricklam.ca/post/20260301-february-photos/

Some more general pictures that I processed last month. #Birds
From Lake Wānaka and also around the Aspiring Hut (which had heaps of kea). #BirdsNZ #Birds
Let's have a few pictures from around Lac Blanc last summer, in the Alps. #TMB #Alps #Birds
Just checked to make sure it was the ibex and not the person looking at Mont Blanc that I just posted. Because it's kind of a similar picture. #TMB #Alps

There was alpine ice in some of the TMB pictures, though we didn't go near it.

Here's some waterfall ice in Ontario from last month, at the Madawaska Ice Festival. Thanks to the Alpine Club of Canada, Toronto Section, for organizing.

Back to Aotearoa and the Cascade Saddle trip last month. I hope I can write a trip report one of these days.

The itinerary that we'd had in mind for a while was from Raspberry Creek carpark through to Aspiring Hut, over Cascade Saddle, through to Dart Hut, and then to Shelter Rock and out at Muddy Creek.

We finally managed to do it in February, with lots of itinerary changes to not be on the saddle on a rainy day.

Here are pictures from Queenstown through to Aspiring Hut, so not yet the saddle.

#tramping

More pictures from Aotearoa, this time from Pōneke. Light Cycles was a light show in the Botanical Garden in June 2024, and there are just some other city pictures here.
We were coming back from Ruapehu last September and stopped by the cherry blossom festival at Aston Norwood, which I highly recommend.
@va2lam Nice shot of the tūī!
@CatherineBabault Thanks. The cherry blossoms sure helped!