Hugh Canard

I am retired from being a watersider, musician, national park assistant, engineer, tourist operator, public servant, regional economic development consultant, contract manager, and science manager. In between working I was a tramper, and kayaker. I have kayaked longer than many, having run the Ashley Gorge and Hurunui from source to sea in 1965. I'm now exploring the possibilities of packrafts and I think they will add a dimension to both trampers and kayakers'' enjoyment of the great outdoors.

History

Illusions Mt Aspiring in 12 minutes

By Hugh Canard|2024-08-07T01:24:35+12:00August 10th, 2018

The summit ridge climb shown in the film was the real thing. What doesn’t show is that the NW ridge wasn’t accessed direct from Colin Todd hut. We put in fixed ropes on the Therma face of Mt Aspiring because the director ‘didn’t want any footprints’ on the ridge. The whole crew dropped off the NW ridge into the Therma, traversed, then went vertically up to the NW ridge.

History

Pioneering If huts could talk…

By Hugh Canard|2018-06-24T11:22:56+12:00June 22nd, 2017

Sometimes you wish a hut could tell all its stories... Hugh Canard shares a few from when Pioneer was being built, lost huts, lost Cessna's and straight lining it on straight ski's.