Hello everyone, AIC follow is next weekend! :) If you where at the meeting last night you would have heard a little bit about it. Here is the run down. This trip is for both people who have never done any mountaineering and would like to learn basic alpine skills and for people who have basic alpine skills and would like to increase these ...

Hello, I am very keen to go climbing on Ruapahu this weekend (if the forecast improves!!)   My general plan is: Leave Hunter car park Friday 5:15pm or latter if need be Drive to mountain and camp in Bruce Shelter Saturday am walk up to Delta Corner (NZAC Hut) and pitch tents Go climbing in the Pinnacles Sunday more climbing on the ...

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 ...

Hello all- Peter and I were thinking of organizing a tramp over to Mt. Taranaki from Friday, June 3-Monday June 6.  Probably won't go up to the summit, but hike around/ up partway/ it's really up for discussion.  Also, the dates and times for leaving can be shifted if people can't get off of work, etc.  Let me know if you're ...

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A Monday afternoon in the rain at Rasberry Flat.  Quentin, Emma and I met Eric and Graham and sorted our gear.  Emma was a late addition to the team so we threw in a bivy bag and tents for 4. The Matukituki was a usual slog up a cow valley, and at Pearl flat we headed up to Liverpool biv which was a nice quick climb with heavy ...

Hey, the weather looks like it might be quite decent this weekend so is anyone up for some mountain adventures? I have the loose plan of going skiing on Friday at Turoa, but after that am pretty flexible so could meet up with others just keen for the weekend! Some ideas could be:  climb Taranaki and camp on the top  wander up ...

Being Winter, and Tappy (Tapuae-o-Uenuku for the uneducated) being a reasonably high, impressive, though not very technical mountain, a bunch of us decided to go climb it in the middle weekend of the uni holidays. That bunch consisted of me, Guy, Terra, Annabel, Morgan, Craig S and Alyn. Rumours of more technical mountains such as Alarm and Mitre ...

Hi everyone, I'm planning to go up to the mountain this weekend. I'm heading up up on Sunday or maybe Monday for the day. I've got a car but only my restricted so I'm happy to take people if someone has had their full for two years (I don't feel like fines sorry!). I've got one space in the ski rack and a reasonable size boot for ...