I quickly realized that my time in NZ was running out with less that two weeks so I was fortunate to meet up with my friend Manu. We decided to do a predawn mission up the Reese Valley, ski touring Mount Clarke.
About 6kms up valley and a few crossings of the river we got to the base of our climb and started heading up an area referred to as Clarkes Slip, this is when the views started coming out.
After a tad bit of a sketchy climb and a tad bit of Tussock bashing we were in the high alpine and trying to climb Clarke before the bad weather arrived.
We were heading for a peak behind the prominent rocky one.
From the summit of Clarke I got my first view of the Reese and Dart valleys and the endless potential of the area. It’s rugged and it’s wild and I like what I see.
After the views from the summit we raced down as fast as possible knowing it was going to rain hard soon. While I did film the descent I didn’t get any pictures until we made it to the spicy descent down Clarke’s slip.
and then we were crossing the river and back out of the Reese Valley and back into Glenarchy. It was a great day ski touring Mount Clark in the Reese Valley
While hanging out at the DOC station I found out that I am from a pretty rad area and that I had a bunch of epic riding to get back to. But I had one final week in NZ.
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