Sunset on Pink Floyd Buttress from the Ruapehu Hut.
The Ruapehu Hut, Mount Taranaki and the lowering sun.
Helen climbing up the ski field just after dawn.

Leaving the ski field far behind...
Overlooking the summit plateau and Cathedral Rocks on Mount Ruapehu.
Climbing up to Glacier Knob via it's South Face.
View from Glacier Knob.
Skinning across the summit plateau towards Cathedral Rocks.
On the rimed up Cathedral Rocks.

Helen in front of Tahurangi, Ruapehu's highest summit, the crater lake is hidden between.
Helen skiing down the Whangaehu Glacier.
Tim skiing down the glacier.
Tim skinning back up the glacier.

Pancake preparation!

Looking down the icy Grand Gully, Helen sitting on a rock in the middle of the picture. It was slightly lower than this point that the ski field's Lahar* siren went off warning us of an iminent Lahar through the ski field and promting us to move to higher ground. We were well above it anyway - it turned out to be a false alarm/test.
Pancakes, in the loosest definition of the word.
*A flow of pyroclastic material and water that flows down from a volcanoe, typically along a river valley - wikipedia