Not Much of a Write-Up (Mid-Waiohine)

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"NOT MUCH OF A WRITE-UP" Have you ever been asked to do a realization half-way down to the Waiowrite-up of a trip and then when you hine that you are slowly being impaled sat down to do it you realized that by a nail starting from the sole of nothing very unusual happened. So what boot. There is the well-cooked stew, your but is there to write about and, more to the before this the sight of four brave point, why did you enjoy the trip? hunters trying to outwit one solitary Mid-Waiohine on October 27-29 in- trout fair means or foul, but the volved no trout vins great battle against the elements, no fording of swollen rivers, no Could it be the smell of breakfast nights spent on cold ground in a wet cooking in the bush, or that quick dash sleeping bag-in fact we didn't even get to the hut to make sure you don't miss lost! Obviously then, we enjoy the "suf- out on the first brew. Or that rest back fering" trips in one way and the less on Holdsworth to gaze at and dream exciting ones in another, and fortunate about such places as Maungahuka, Crawis the tramper who can say he enjoys ford, and Mitre. Or just for once, a both kinds of trips equally well. dry trip across Pig Flat and a meeting up with other club trips, each assuring So to the weekend in question and the other that their's was the best. what made this trip. Perhaps it was that So first brew at Mountain House on Friday take your pick. night when you sit around and sample These things make our trips and those other people's biscuits and lie about how left wondering about this trip were: quickly made it to the hut. Maybe Tiare Jackson, Kevin Harvey, Ron the top o1 Holdsworth, with the Main Fayle, Gary Lund, Gordon and Rose- Range across the way, clear and beckon- many Fox, Rosie Chittenden, Joe Peming, with only the southern part letting berton, Peter Atkinson, Noyce, a little cloud spill over to remind us Chris Miuhurinick, John Barry that Addison. it is not always like this. Or the -Bill Rice.