Crow Valley-Easter, 1962

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CROW VALLEY-EASTER, 1962 for the subsidised French ski team had This course was organised by the started working-out nine hours a day Federated Mountain Clubs as a follow early in September at a physical-training on to the Ruapehu Course run last year, camp in the south of France. The team, the difference being, that the personnel in what was proclaimed a "revolutionary attending the course would be instructed method" reportedly worked during the in methods of instructing novices, as pre-snow preparation with 60-pound well as attempting to standardise the weights on their shoulders to strengthen various methods. the chest and thigh muscles that come The course was run over three days into play in the crouched or "egg" raceach day being a different aspect of ing style that accounts to a large extent climbing. The first day was rock, the for the French eminince in the downsecond day was snow, and the third day hill today. ice technique, and crevasse rescue. Packen, Packen up der slopen Luckily the whole three days went Tongue unt Meat without a ropen, without a break in the weather, and the last day was free for a climb, so Funfsig pounds I think, or sO Rolleston was traversed by most of the In der pack as kampen go. course. Legs of Frogs ski mitt schnell, The next day an easy stroll out down Tongue unt Meat he go like hell, the Crow River into the Waimakariri Nous to them old to ended a very interesting and useful us, Easter,-Bruce Jefferies, Norm Whiteside. Revolutionary fuss. -Pierre.