Snow/Godley Glacier trip 2013

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Re: Snow/Godley Glacier trip 2013

Postby hillfilly » Wed Aug 07, 2013 8:50 pm

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hillfilly wrote:What time are we meeting at Rolleston on Friday morning??????? :)

Doesn't seem like to much interest aye. Shall we aim to leave Rolleston around 10am?
Who is actually going?


Glad some are still going....... :D :D

I was beginning to think I'd come to shakeytown only to go home again lol
Staying in Rolleston and just around the corner
So anytime is fine by me.....

And I have my own truck lol :D :D
Just a few wee fix its tomorrow... diff breather, cig lighter socket, spare onto different rim and if I'm lucky get the radio wiring sorted. :roll:



Where's the best place to get a tyre changed in Shakeytown????
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Re: Snow/Godley Glacier trip 2013

Postby pressy » Thu Aug 08, 2013 6:08 am

pressy wrote:
kbjj wrote:Who is actually going?

bump
put your name here again please so we know who to look or wait for? 8) :roll: .

1. kbjj
2. Pressy (will be leaving friday noon after wk)
3. Andy (will be leaving friday noon after wk)
4. Hillfilly

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Re: Snow/Godley Glacier trip 2013

Postby diogenese » Thu Aug 08, 2013 9:28 pm

put your name here again please so we know who to look or wait for? 8) :roll: .

1. kbjj
2. Pressy (will be leaving friday noon after wk)
3. Andy (will be leaving friday noon after wk)
4. Hillfilly
5. diogenese (Matty)

will be leaving Temuka around 11ish and hopefull catch you in fairlie.
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Re: Snow/Godley Glacier trip 2013

Postby kbjj » Thu Aug 08, 2013 9:53 pm

Channel 15 prs
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Re: Snow/Godley Glacier trip 2013

Postby diogenese » Fri Aug 09, 2013 1:17 pm

Can anyone pm me kbjj or hillfilly's cell number please?

Or I'll pm someone my number if you can forward it.

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Re: Snow/Godley Glacier trip 2013

Postby diogenese » Sun Aug 11, 2013 2:20 pm

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Re: Snow/Godley Glacier trip 2013

Postby Smurf » Sun Aug 11, 2013 2:59 pm

Well that looks a lot different without the snow.

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Re: Snow/Godley Glacier trip 2013

Postby Twodiffs » Sun Aug 11, 2013 6:20 pm

Definitely..brilliant in winter and nice in summer as well.
Have they emptied out the dunnies yet????

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Re: Snow/Godley Glacier trip 2013

Postby diogenese » Sun Aug 11, 2013 8:13 pm

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Re: Snow/Godley Glacier trip 2013

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Re: Snow/Godley Glacier trip 2013

Postby diogenese » Sun Aug 11, 2013 8:49 pm

I hope everyone made it back home in one piece, there was a fair bit of destruction by the time came to go home!
Not much snow this time just some bits left over from the last dump.
Everyone made it to the glacier lake in one bit after a "discussion" with a DOC ranger but all smiles at the end of the day.
I made a newbie mistake of trying to drive over a boulder 30 cm taller than the mitsy's ground clearance but was soon on it's way again after jacking and throwing rocks under the tyres. ( my apologies for Hillfilly's finger :o ).
A bit of swift winching sorted out a bent track rod and kbjj did a bit of woodcarving to get home after breaking a spring.
I'll leave details of the VX cruiser saga to those involved, if they have made it back yet!

By the way, does anyone know what breed the spider in the photos is?

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Re: Snow/Godley Glacier trip 2013

Postby hillfilly » Sun Aug 11, 2013 9:43 pm

Great photos...Diogenese...

Back in Rolleston in one piece.

My new truck went well... :D :D :D made all the way to the glacier lake without needing a single tow :D :D :D :D

Not so the trip back to the hut... so really easy to miss the track in the dark and end up in the river without a paddle.... :lol: :lol: :lol: thanks for the tow out Diogenese... (Matty)

So far post trip...only found a slight modification to the passenger step... and a loud squawking...... will really find out when I get home :roll: :lol:

Finger less black...my own silly fault for catching it between the rocks :roll: :roll: Thanks for the gloves Reece.

Great to meet up with Jeremy, Kelsey, Tony , Jarren again and nice to meet Matty, Reece, Andy and Sam.

Another trip full of great driving, brilliant conversations and heaps of kidding, joking an laughs. ( remember it is my torch Tony....) :D :D :D

More of an up date and a few photos later.......
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Re: Snow/Godley Glacier trip 2013

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Re: Snow/Godley Glacier trip 2013

Postby Mattman » Mon Aug 12, 2013 9:47 pm

Wicked photos.

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Re: Snow/Godley Glacier trip 2013

Postby Twodiffs » Tue Aug 13, 2013 7:22 pm

Agree....magic photo's. Would really like to know though how big that spider was - it wasn't small i know that much!

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Re: Snow/Godley Glacier trip 2013

Postby diogenese » Tue Aug 13, 2013 9:51 pm

The photos don't show the scale of the place,apart from the long panorama.

I know one thing for sure, I'm not waiting another year till I go up there again! I'd probably be there this weekend if I wasn't on call :(

The spider was only about 10-15mm long.

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Re: Snow/Godley Glacier trip 2013

Postby hillfilly » Thu Aug 15, 2013 11:36 pm

On our way.......
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Nicely placed.....

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Re: Snow/Godley Glacier trip 2013

Postby hillfilly » Thu Aug 15, 2013 11:53 pm

We'll winch it straight again............

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My truck and I made it to the lake .... :D
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A nice warm coffee......
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Roll call.......

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Re: Snow/Godley Glacier trip 2013

Postby hillfilly » Fri Aug 16, 2013 12:13 am

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Not much room for the sausage shack
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Time for home :cry: :cry:

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Firewood always comes in handy.... :)
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Kodak moment

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Mintie moment

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Andy won't miss this

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Should be finished next trip.......

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Thanks for another great trip guys.......
You make a brilliant trip leader Jeremy :wink:
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Re: Snow/Godley Glacier trip 2013

Postby pressy » Fri Aug 16, 2013 5:59 am

nice photos there bev . got any of your torch for the boys to decide on what it is? :oops: :lol:

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Re: Snow/Godley Glacier trip 2013

Postby KIWI_TERRANO » Sat Aug 17, 2013 8:38 am

Awesome guttered i had to work otherwise would have been there

What the track to lake like?

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Re: Snow/Godley Glacier trip 2013

Postby diogenese » Wed Aug 21, 2013 11:15 pm

KIWI_TERRANO wrote:What the track to lake like?

Pretty rocky at the end, surprised that the mitsubishi made it! Damn good job I had a long bash plate or I would have smashed in my front diff.

On the spider front I emailed Phil Servid at Te Papa's entomology department to see if he had any ideas, just got this reply.
Dear Matty,It's not often I have to admit defeat, but I genuinely don't know what that one is. I've got a colleague coming in tomorrow and we'll get our heads together to see what we can make of it together.  There are plenty of new species of spider still to be collected and described here in NZ. It's possible you may have found one of them. It might be a member of the family Zoridae but these are so poorly known in NZ, it's hard to be sure without a specimen to examine closely.If I haven't gotten back to you by Friday, please feel free to remind me.Regards,Phil Sirvid Entomology Section Museum of New Zealand Te Papa

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Re: Snow/Godley Glacier trip 2013

Postby Big » Thu Aug 22, 2013 8:41 am

diogenese wrote:On the spider front I emailed Phil Servid at Te Papa's entomology department to see if he had any ideas, just got this reply.
Dear Matty,It's not often I have to admit defeat, but I genuinely don't know what that one is. I've got a colleague coming in tomorrow and we'll get our heads together to see what we can make of it together.  There are plenty of new species of spider still to be collected and described here in NZ. It's possible you may have found one of them. It might be a member of the family Zoridae but these are so poorly known in NZ, it's hard to be sure without a specimen to examine closely.If I haven't gotten back to you by Friday, please feel free to remind me.Regards,Phil Sirvid Entomology Section Museum of New Zealand Te Papa

WOW very cool, I hope you can get an answer as this is ground breaking stuff.. Might even be named after you.. :mrgreen: very exciting..

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Re: Snow/Godley Glacier trip 2013

Postby hippy_ » Thu Aug 22, 2013 10:47 am

Im very keen to hear the out come on the spider....... Next time Im up there, I'll take a container and try and catch one. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Re: Snow/Godley Glacier trip 2013

Postby diogenese » Thu Aug 22, 2013 12:31 pm

Hilly found it, I just took the photo. Maybe it could be an ORE spider;-)

When are you going up again hippy? I need another fix already.

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Re: Snow/Godley Glacier trip 2013

Postby diogenese » Thu Aug 22, 2013 6:56 pm

Hi Matty,My colleague and I have had a look. We're not completely sure what you have, but wonder if it might be a male of the water spider Dolmedes aquaticus. The size is right and what we can see of the eyes is not a bad match  but the colour is a lot greyer than we're  used to seeing. There is a lot of colour variation in these spiders so it wouldn't be a shock to find one with a colour scheme like this. If we had a clearer view of the head end we could be a bit more certain.

I'll send my other snaps and see what happens:-)

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Re: Snow/Godley Glacier trip 2013

Postby evolution02 » Sun Aug 25, 2013 11:08 pm

diogenese wrote:
KIWI_TERRANO wrote:What the track to lake like?

Pretty rocky at the end, surprised that the mitsubishi made it! Damn good job I had a long bash plate or I would have smashed in my front diff.


Hi Im looking at going up the Godley valley as a day trip from Tekapo.
How long does it take to get from the hut to the glacier lake? If to long wont bother.
Imagine it will take a couple hours to get from lillybank to the hut

Thanks

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Re: Snow/Godley Glacier trip 2013

Postby pressy » Mon Aug 26, 2013 6:24 am

evolution02 wrote:
diogenese wrote:
KIWI_TERRANO wrote:What the track to lake like?

Pretty rocky at the end, surprised that the mitsubishi made it! Damn good job I had a long bash plate or I would have smashed in my front diff.


Hi Im looking at going up the Godley valley as a day trip from Tekapo.
How long does it take to get from the hut to the glacier lake? If to long wont bother.
Imagine it will take a couple hours to get from lillybank to the hut

Thanks

Tekapo to lillybank .5 from lillybank to the maculey hut 1.5 -2 from lillybank to red stag hut 1.5 - 2 red stag to the Glacier bout another 1hour.

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Re: Snow/Godley Glacier trip 2013

Postby diogenese » Sun Sep 01, 2013 7:01 pm

Here you go Jerry, I made it up to the waterfall across from the hut :)
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Re: Snow/Godley Glacier trip 2013

Postby hillfilly » Tue Sep 03, 2013 5:50 pm

Hey Matty

Looks like another great trip for you.
Great stuff....... so jealous you've been up there again so soon.
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