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Silicon Slopes | Business and Climate Sustainability
DPS Skis needed to balance being a viable business with conserving the winter environments that make the sport possible. This is an essay on how we approached the problem, published in Silicon Slopes magazine.
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Patagonia | The Path of a Water Droplet
A ski and packraft journey from Tititea to the ocean. Published by Patagonia.
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NZSkier | Success is Relative
A philosophical recount of an expedition to ski in Alaska's St Elias Mountains. Published in NZ Skier Magazine.
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Adventure | Central Otago River Journeys
There's a lot to explore in our backyard. This is a story of three kayaking first descents, published in Adventure Magazine.
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Freeskier | Trip Report, Mt Aspiring
A recount of our 2020 trip to ski an iconic local peak, Mt Aspiring / Tititea. Published in Freeskier Magazine
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Engineering NZ | Secret Life of Engineers
An interview from my engineering days, about how I juggled work with my passions. Something I'm still trying to find a balance on.
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Wilderness | What's In My Pack
Thoughts on gear choice and managing weight in a 35kg+ pack for a week long skiing, packrafting, and alpine journey from Tititea to the Tasman Sea.
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Radio NZ | Blake's Interviewed About Our 288km Taieri River Expedition
Blake recounts our adventures on the Taieri and the watershed's environmental challenges.
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Otago Daily Times | Eye Opening Kayaking Source to Sea
Our home paper reports the first source to sea descent of the Taieri River, and why it's important to conserve.
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DPS Skis | Odd Bedfellows in NZ's Southern Alps
Reflections on spring ski touring and our love-hate relationship with kea - Aotearoa’s unique alpine parrot.
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Aotearoa Adventure Podcast | Recounting Our Tititea - Waiatoto Expedition
I joined Abigail Hannah on her podcast to run over our trip, planning advice, and mentorship in the mountains.
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Chill | Liftlines and Nutcrackers: Some Thoughts On Why We Ski
After a ski season in Utah I gained a renewed appreciation for the skiing and community at NZ’s clubfields.
Where does fast and light fit in Aotearoa?
Aotearoa has a storied history of endurance activities in the mountains. Now with modern gear and tech how can people apply skill, creativity, and teamwork to go further, open fresh routes, and innovate how we approach old classics?
Decisions on Mt Rainier
Getting ready to ski from Rainier’s crater should have been a special moment, but instead I’d just vomited, had a pounding headache, and was in full fight or flight mode.
Looking out our backdoor
As a kid in Alexandra I’d looked up at Central Otago’s mountains, exploring them during summer on foot and by bike, but I’d barely scratched the surface skiing there. 20 years late my brother Kit and I saw our chance to finally explore closer to home.
A desert experience
The story goes that the Spanish missionary who named these mountains deemed it so unlikely that there could be snow in these parts, and so the mountains must be covered in salt, naming them the Sierra La Sal (salt mountains).