I bought this bike to replace "Lester", my 140mm trailbike (a 2010 Specialised Stumpjumper FSR Comp). The name is that of my grandfather Bruce Hatfield's trail riding horse, Mouse. I originally considered...
Read MoreWorking on Whenua Hou Part 1: Getting There
This is the first post in a series I intend to make coving my time living and working with the Kākāpō Recovery Programme on Codfish Island / Whenua Hou. I hope this series of posts can help explain just what it is I do, where I do it, and why I've chosen to do it in the first place...
Read MoreWorking on Whenua Hou Part 0: Introduction
Over the past year, from November 4th 2015 through November 2nd 2016, I have worked with the Kākāpō Recovery program through New Zealand's Department of Conservation on Codfish Island / Whenua Hou. During that time I've gathered experiences, stats, videos, and many, many photos (over 200Gb!), many of which I've shared over Twitter. Those tweets however were very much 'in the now', and I wanted to create something that lasted longer and my tweet-illiterate family, friends, and potential future DOC Rangers and volunteers could use to gain a bit of insight into the place, and the life and work of a very specific type of DOC Ranger. This series of posts aims to do just that.
Read MoreBike Check: Horsefeathers
Named after my late grandfather whom I never met, Lester “H” Osborne, Horsefeathers is pretty much my do-it-all XC/trail bike. I put this together to...
Read MoreHello World
So this is my personal site; which I’m determined to keep going for the long term. To help with that I don’t put too much pressure on myself to post here regularly, only when...
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