Author: TAC Taranaki Alpine Club Inc.

Instruction

Snow Craft 2025

Hi Climbers! The temperatures are dropping and it’s time to start thinking about our snowcraft courses. Snowcraft 1 If you wish to be considered can you please contact the Club Captain with the following information: Dates: Note: The pre-field evening (in New Plymouth) is compulsory Snowcraft 2 For those considering to register interest for the Snowcraft 2, it is a pre-requisite that you have been undertaking sufficient climbing to a point where your alpine climbing progression is now requiring the use of ropes, protection, anchors to ascend the routes you are wishing to climb. It is up to the discretion […]

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HiTAC May 2025

From the President’s desk President’s Report April 2025 Time stops for no one and nor does the rain currently it seems! Fingers crossed these weather extremes that we have experienced this year will bring a heavy dumping of snow this season! As the new committee settles into the different allocated roles, the usual annual administrative things tick over. You will have noticed that your membership invoice was issued on the 1st April, and a week or so later for those of you who have lockers, this invoice was sent out separately. Unfortunately, the system won’t let us add the locker […]

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HiTAC April 2025

From the President’s Desk Tēnā Koutou Autumn is in the air, the maunga had a very small sprinkling of snow overnight! Fingers crossed we might be in for a load of snow this winter. The AGM has been and gone with a few new faces joining the executive committee – welcome to Janica, Katyana & Rachel who has taken on the role of Trips Co-Ordinator. You may notice next time you’re at the lodge that the deck maintenance has been completed. The boys lifted the deck, removed the rust, cleaned up all the metal brackets, applied special anti-rust coating to […]

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HiTAC March 2025

From the President’s Desk Tēnā Koutou Autumn is in the air, the maunga had a very small sprinkling of snow overnight!  Fingers crossed we might be in for a load of snow this winter.  The AGM has been and gone with a few new faces joining the executive committee – welcome to Janica, Katyana & Rachel who has taken on the role of Trips Co-Ordinator.  You may notice next time you’re at the lodge that the deck maintenance has been completed.  The boys lifted the deck, removed the rust, cleaned up all the metal brackets, applied special anti-rust coating to […]

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HiTAC January 2025

From the President’s Desk Season’s greeting clubbies! Hope you have some fun, relaxation & some great activities planned for the summer break! As some of you may be aware we had to change the club night for December, and sadly the numbers were quite significantly reduced, so moving forward we are going to keep club night to the first Thursday of the month as per usual. This means the February club night will be 6th February with the traditional social BBQ at the river. See below for the details, and keep an eye out on Facebook, too. Congrats to Jeremy […]