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Tag Archives: mountain running
Good LandSAR Publicity
This morning’s Dominion Post has some fab publicity for New Zealand’s LandSAR organisation, derived from a couple of recent high profile incidents in the Tararua and Rimutaka Ranges in the lower North Island. The first article profiles a couple of … Continue reading
Posted in update
Tagged dogs, link propagation, mountain running, rimutakas, search and rescue, tararuas, wellington
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Not my preferred form of agony
Here’s a quick pointer towards the Tararua Fastest-Known-Times site, which has been spread around social media in the last few days. It caters to a mentality which doesn’t so much appeal to me, but which has a good following. My … Continue reading
Feather-weight safety protocols
As I was writing that previous post about how PLBs aren’t automatically everything that they’re sometimes made out to be, an incident was unfolding in the Tararua Range where a PLB would probably have been really really useful. Fortunately things … Continue reading
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Tagged media, mountain running, mountain safety council, musing, plb, search and rescue, tararuas
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