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                    <image:title>Rex Simpson Hut - a great ski touring and split-boarding venue</image:title>
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                    <image:title>Brodrick Pass - Stream Crossing</image:title>
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                    <image:title>Ski tracks above O&#039;Leary&#039;s Hut, Cass Valley Haute Route, Lake Tekapo</image:title>
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                    <image:title>Ski touring above the &quot;Bad Decision&quot; whiskey hut in the Cass Valley</image:title>
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                    <image:title>Tekapo Hut to Hut Trek - views of the Southern Alps</image:title>
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                    <image:title>Copland Pass - climbing up Copland Ridge above the Hooker Glacier</image:title>
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                    <image:title>Copland Valley - endangered Blue Duck (Whio) on the Copland River</image:title>
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