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Trip Reports (August 1974)

August 1974 · Tararua (Winchcombe Crossing, Southern Crossing, Dennan Spur, Sheridan Creek); Blue Range, Cow Creek; Ruapehu (ski instruction); Egmont (AIC)

This text was read by OCR from a scanned newsletter and has not been proofread yet, so expect odd characters and mistakes.

AUGUST 2-4 Jack McConchie led a vinchcompe Crossing, while Dave Forbes. did the Southern. Unfortunately there was no snow, and attendances were low, but all enjoyed themselves. Chris Barker's medium trip. down Dennan Spur into Sheridan Creek ran, with his usualistream of jokes to liven things up. AUGUST 9-11 Easy trip to Blue Range, and a medium over Blue Range to. Cow Creek ran successfully. with good attendance, but the F.E. was cancelled. AUGUST 16-18 A group participated in the Club Ski Instruction at Ruapehu. Haven't heard of any broken legs or similar, so guess the weather was bad.. AUGUST 23-25 The Egmont A. I.C. kept to i-'s usual form, weather rot giving us a break during the. whole weekend, although most ventured out for a while. AUGUST 30-1SEPT. All club trips cancellec. Recently trips have not been supported very well, and a few have been cancelled. WHERE IS ALL YOUR CLUB SPIRIT? Put your names. on some trips next Thursday and GET BACK INTO THE HILLS every two or three: weekends.

About this record

Sources
Newsletter
Reference
newsletter scan 1974 - newsletter p9
Text from
Newsletter scan, OCR (not proofread)
Date confidence
low
Notes
trip date not exact; published in the September 1974 issue; date given as 'August 1974'; text: Tesseract OCR, not yet proofread (mean OCR confidence 76.9); brief round-up; review note: old ratio 0.868 -> new 0.937; reviewed by re-OCR (docTR) (done)
Archive file
archive/reports/1974-08-00_trip-reports-august-1974/report.md
Record id
1974-08-00_trip-reports-august-1974

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