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Trip Reports (March - April 1975)

March 1975 · Makaretu - East Yeates; Richmond Range; Blue Range, Donald Stream, Mitre Flats; Cow Creek; Waiohine Pinnacle spur, Carkeek, Dorset Hut, Mitre

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

TRIP REPORTS: March7-2 A Makaretu - East YTYY (the fourth in. the last few years) was scheduled, but bar 2 racers,ending in a similar way to the previous attempts a wet campsites I bush bash etc. No reports: available frcm the other trips. March21 : 23 Trips unforturately cancelled. Easter - 2 Richmond.Range Trips - reportedly good value, and a 10 day West Coast trip, with its usual share of rain. April4.6 Clark Halverson led a mediun party over Blue Range, and down Donald Strean, which turned out a trifle on the difficult sice for some, who didn't arrive at Mitre Flats until 9.00 p.m, ' Meanwhile Russell Gallagher had a Fic trip which after going over to Cow Creek, went up Table Ridge, and. over Mitre to Mitre Flats. The F.E. trip under the surveillance of Dennis Gazley shot over to Cow Creek on Friday night and first thing in the morning. upthat freezing river. Going up Waiohine Pinnacle spur, 1 dropped out, and the. grade made its mark on the others. One went down the Waichine, and the others along Carkeek,and then to Dorset Hut, on Sunday scme came out over Mitre and some via Nth. King.

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Sources
Newsletter
Reference
newsletter scan 1975 - newsletter p14
Text from
Newsletter scan, OCR (not proofread)
Date confidence
low
Notes
trip date not exact; published in the April 1975 issue; date given as 'March - April 1975'; text: Tesseract OCR, not yet proofread (mean OCR confidence 83.0); brief round-up; review note: old ratio 0.830 -> new 0.912; reviewed by re-OCR (docTR) (done)
Archive file
archive/reports/1975-03-00_trip-reports-march-april-1975/report.md
Record id
1975-03-00_trip-reports-march-april-1975

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