New Zealand Alpine Club

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Trip organiser: Nina Sawicki

Space for 12 people in comfy van heading up to Wharepapa South in early February. The plan is to leave Wellington lunchtime / early afternoon on Friday 3rd February, stay at Bryce’s Friday through to Monday, and return to Wellington on Monday 6th.

The trip will cost approx $200 all up for the weekend including food, fuel, van hire, and accomodation. Nina will be “camp Mum“ and will be providing a sumptious fare of food for veges and carnivores. Climbers of all abilities welcome due to good variety of grades, and it would be good to have a mixture of abilities and share talent.

Email Nina for more details.

Looking for new partners, wanting to get in to rock climbing, want to climb outside? Scared of heights?

Summer Rock is an introductory course suitable for beginners and people wanting to take their climbing outdoors. The course is every Tuesday night through February and March with trips every second weekend. We will visit two crags in central north island and a couple of sites around Wellington.

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Download the December issue of Vertigo here.

Once again we are planning to bring the Banff Mountain Film Festival to Wellington in May next year.

Here’s the trailer

Trip Report by Wiebke Heise

Trip Participants: Scott Taylor, Magdalena Faltynkova, Wiebke Heise

Friday evening Scott, Magdalena and Wiebke left Wellington to climb Tapuae-O-Uenuku. The surprisingly low number of participants was probably because of the RWC final, the ferries being fully booked already 2 weeks before the trip and a competing trip organised by the Tararua Tramping Club. On the interislander at 6.25 we met the 2 other groups heading towards the inland Kaikouras, 8 people from the Tararua tramping club to climb Tapuae-O-Uenuku and 4 which aimed to climb Mitre peak. All arrived at Gladstone Downs about 2 hours kater tents were quickly put up and everyone went to sleep with the sound of the drizzling rain.

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Mid January

Trip Leader – Rob Hawes
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Mt Brewster in Mt Aspiring NP has become a popular climb and with a new hut, it is a worthwhile 3 to 4 day climb with walk in/out. Mt Brewster is not to be taken lightly and could easily require some pitch climbing near the summit.

Other options if Mt Brewster is not in condition are Mt Barff (from Liverpool Hut) and Mt’s Tyndall, Plunket Dome, and Islington all from Cascade Saddle (Camping) would be a good and rewarding trip (again 3 to 4 days). Camping at Cascade saddle is one of the best kept secrets of an outstanding place to camp, looking over the valley directly to the south face and SW ridge of Mt Aspiring.

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