I'm thinking of heading to the mountain on Sunday or Monday (more likely) this weekend to ski. If anyone is interested in joining me for the car trip or to ski, let me know: kgiven@xtra.co.nz I'm actually in Levin this weekend but if you didn't have transport, we might be able to organise something. I have a roof rack for skis and plenty of ...

Hey, If the weather is not quite so marginal I'm keen to go climbing on Ruapahue this weekend! Any one else keen? I'm thinking of playing around on the Pinnacles. It won't be a instuctional trip as such - there is AIC 2 and snow caving for that comming up soon, but whatever your ability you can come on up and have a potter around or climb ...

In addition, to come on this trip you will need to have completed a basic alpine instruction course such as the club course happening on the weekend of 26-28 June.   The travel arrangements for this course also need to be finalised shortly and spaces are limited. The trip will leave Wellington on Friday evening and will return on Sunday ...

Ruapehu Technical Climbing Course 20–21 June 2009 (Backup date: 27–28 June 2009) THis is a realy great course, it is what gave me the confidence to start climbing lots :) I have been on both courses. Definitly go if you are at all keen on climbing big mountains!! :)   ...

Count me in for the climbing!!! :) and I may skin up to ski a few times too :)

Last night I wrote an extremely basic webpage for checking the ski reports on your cellphone: http://cubalan.net.nz/snow/ Check it out on your computer first, but there are three pages(summary, detail for each field), and its about 10 times smaller data wise than the official sites. Should prove useful, and more info than txt/phone ...

Hi guys, A group of us head up any weekend we can, usually leaving early(5am) Saturday and coming back Sunday evening. We stay at The Crossing backpackers. Most often we have 4 in the car, but I'll be sure to post when we have a space free! Where do you others stay?