Dan Lasto

A solid birthday hunt.

Just before Christmas last year I got out on a quick solo hunt for my birthday and checked out some new terrain.

Sadly I got clouded over during the first afternoon/ evening so had to call it at night there. The next morning I got up, had a quick glass around and spotted a nice hind not even 200m from my tent! I watched her for a bit, then decided she was a good meat animal with nothing else coming out.

It’s good to have put some meat back in the freezer, it was starting to get quite low. The new meat hauler from also was a charm for keeping everything nice and clean!

One year married to my far better half! We hit paper only 29 to go until diamond. I hope they don’t go as fast as the last one did. Love you

Project Beyond the Ranges was completed Two Whole Months ago! And gosh it has flown by.

With all your help we managed to raise $8,000 for men’s mental health through .nz and it still hasn’t quite sunk in what we achieved.

I’ve taken the last few months to have a bit of a reset after what was a massive year and I’ve had a bit of a pause from proper social media content but it’s time to get back into it.

A lot of people asked “what’s next” and honestly it’s been hard. Project Beyond the Ranges. Swimming across Tekapo, running over the Two Thumb Mountain Range, riding from the upper reaches of the Rangitata back to Christchurch when first dreamed up seemed like an impossible task and many people thought I was crazy.

So what is next? It’s pretty hard to top a challenge like that without getting closer to staring death in the face, so I am getting back to what I love. Hunting, diving, and triathlon with a goal to become a bit more competitive.

These events are what make life truly special and show you what you’re truly capable of. I doubt the itch will return soon enough. For now the cup is full.

But if you missed it, I quietly launched an endurance nutrition brand based off my fuelling plan for project Beyond the Ranges. If you’re looking for some good nutrition that has worked and carried me over a mountain range, go check out Enduro 80 at .nz to see what it’s all about.

Into the dying light.

60km across a mountain range by night with only what we had in our running vests. It was a bold attempt that truly humbled the whole team but we didn’t let the night deter us.

The terrain was far more technical that we expected which slowed our progress substantially but you need to keep pushing when things get harder to truly see what you’re capable of pushing through.

We completed a 60km mountain run over the Two Thumb Range for .nz and men’s mental health.

Go Beyond.