Author: TAC Taranaki Alpine Club Inc.

Club Trips

Winter Trips 2024

Buddy Walks Are you new to winter mountaineering and don’t quite know how to gain some winter experience? The Club’s buddy walks can help you! Our buddy walks help fill two key gaps for those who are pretty new to winter mountaineering, namely acquiring skills and being able to safely climb and walk on Taranaki’s winter white stuff, as well as getting to know others to be out there with. The buddy walks are informal, friendly and typically aimed at those wishing to improve their beginner/basic snow travel skills (ice axe, crampons, weather/snow conditions assessment, different terrain/slopes, maybe simple pitching) […]

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HiTAC June 2024

President’s Desk Kia Ora Koutou, Another month ticks by and the snow has been teasing us and then melts! Hopefully, these snowfalls are indicating a solid season ahead on the maunga! Your committee has had a busy month dealing with the usual club business and amongst the correspondence we received an email advising us that the Te Pire Whakatupua mō Te Kāhui Tupua/Taranaki Maunga Collective Redress Bill had had its first reading and was now before the Māori Affairs Select Committee for consideration and submissions were open. We had a timeframe of about 2 weeks to read the document, discuss […]

Instruction

2024 Snowcraft Instruction

Hi Climbers! The temperature’s dropping and it’s time to start thinking about our Snowcraft courses. SC1 Instructors & SC1 Train the Trainer Refresh I’m looking for expressions of interest for those who would be able to assist with instructing or helping on these courses. If this sounds like you, please send me an email. For our SC1 Train the Trainer Refresh, rather than a day on the hill, we will look instead to have a session in town on a weeknight to go through what we need to cover. Date to be determined. Snowcraft 1 This year we are making […]

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HiTAC May 2024

President’s desk As I sit and scribe this I am sitting by the fire, the weather is chilling down, so hopefully this session we will have good snowfalls to play in! Snowcraft dates are out and applications have been called for. This year we have a slightly different approach to how we group people together so on the day/s everyone is at similar starting point. This will create ease for both instructors and participants alike. Traditionally snowcraft courses fill quickly so express your interest sooner rather than later! Hopefully Rock & Rope will be a “go” this weekend, after having […]

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HiTAC April 2024

President’s Desk Kia ora fellow members, Writing articles isn’t my forte, I’m more a verbal face to face communicator! But I’ll give it a nudge. Firstly, I wish to express my thanks for the vote in confidence from the membership in the new Committee. We are working through getting emails assigned, sorting passwords, bank account signatory updated etc, so several hoops to jump through and complete.The new line up looks like this: I hope you caught up with the change of dates for Rope & Rock, now the Saturday 13th April through to the Sunday 14th April. Best to stay […]