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Good stuff, as you found out hitting Tahr is one thing, recovering another.
Bit earlier for the bulls yet, need the first winter snow to drive them down from their lofty heights and then of course coming into the rut around this time.

Myself and two sons and a two mates of the boys all heading into our South Westland tahr block last week of May. Won a block last year in the ballot but DOC failed to allocate the block to me so gave me my pick of the blocks and the week of my choice for this years ballot blocks.

Looking forward to another great week on the tahr weather permitting of course. Always see lots of animals each day in the block we have but as usual those big bulls can often be seen but still very allusive to get. Then again sometimes they can pop up a few hundred metres from camp, just got to ready at any time.

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Congratulations on drawing a block. Ive just started to look at putting in for the ballot.
Weather permitting! main reason we come over a bit early as limited experience with real cold conditions , so building up time on the ground. Slowly getting there with experience.
Losing the bulls over the edge was the low point of the trip. We pushed ourselves in the steep stuff that they went over. Decided on better judgement to stop as the ice sheet was something new to us. No ice axe or crampons. very slippery.
The visibility the next morning was very poor , gusting winds made the decision to get out very easy.
We were encouraged to take a few nannies and it improved our moral after losing the bulls. Gave some of the meat to one of the heli crew and ate the rest during our travels.
NZ great place , Next year. Cheers Mick

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