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HiTAC December 2016

President’s Desk Thanks to everyone who came along for the Open Climb induction for the 2017 event, to be held Saturday 18 February. We have sufficient members who’ve made themselves available to help on the day, so will open Registrations on the club website early December. If you know anyone who is keen to participate, remind them to book early! We’ve had an unprecedented number of entries for the club photo competition! Make sure you get along to the December club night to see all these fantastic photos. We’ll also be presenting Certificates in recognition of our Long service members […]

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HiTAC November 2016

President’s Desk The Open Climb Committee held its first meeting last weekend, with much being achieved. As you know the Open Climb induction will take place at Club night on Thursday 3 November. If everyone who’d like to help out with the Open Climb on 18 February could be there, that will be great! And don’t forget Steve Ritson will be doing the gear presentation that night as well, and Stephen Miller will bring us up to date with the Lodge downstairs upgrade. See you there! You may have seen on the Club’s facebook page that Chris is organising a […]

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Photo Competition 2016

Includes the Presidents Shout December 1st at 7:30 pm Presidents Shout Our annual photo competition and Presidents shout. I’ve seen some amazing photo’s taken this year so make sure you don’t miss the deadline and get them in! Competition Objectives –          To encourage an interest in alpine photography. –          To provide a source of photographs for publications and for publicity purposes. –          To assist members to improve the standard of their photography. –          To enter the winning photographs into the annual FMC competition. Format – All images must be digital: :: sized between 500kb – 5MB :: saved as a JPEG or […]

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HiTAC October 2016

President’s Desk As mentioned last month the induction briefing for the Open Climb will be held at the November club night, so that is Thursday 3 November, 7.30 pm at the Blind Foundation Rooms. To make this night a little more interesting for you, we’re going to include the Gear presentation of Singing Rock Mountaineering equipment that was unable to go ahead at the September club night, thanks Steve!  And due to popular demand Stephen Miller will also give a brief talk on how the Lodge downstairs upgrade is progressing.  Remember that if you want to help out with the […]

Trip Reports

Trip Report: Tongariro Winter Summit 2016

A full trip of 22 was unfortunately reduced to 13 when atrocious weather forced us to go for our reserve weekend of 23-25 Sept. Well done to all of those that re-organised travel plans to make it! With increasing showers forecast as the Saturday progressed, we started early from Mangetepopo car park at 7.30am and headed into a warm yet slightly overcast and drizzly valley toward Soda Springs and the infamous loo stop. The weather seemed to lift a little and clothing layers were removed as we warmed up walking up Devil’s Staircase. But you guessed it, those layers were […]