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Trip Reports (June - July 1974)

June 1974 · Southern Main Range (Maungahuka); Ruapehu (AIC); Holdsworth-Mitre ridge, Mt Holdsworth; Tararua (Powell); Waitewaewae

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

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June 29-30 Two trips, one to Fields, led by Genevieve Jonss and a Squthern , Main Range, led } by Kev Thompson, wiich, due to conditions didn't eee beyond Maungahuka, e July 5-7 First ‘snow aT, C.- After bad weather on Bo etna vy, an early start on Sunday, attempting to catch up on lost time, and all practised ona snow slope above 4.C.. making good progress, July 12-24 Three trips - Paul Aubrey leading a trip along the iol dsworth- Mitre ridge, with some snow underfoot for a change, Neil Green lei an ascent of holdsworth, wich his 8 year o:d son included. Alan Farish's fit trip piked at Powell, under instructions from tieir leader, July 17-15 .4 smail turnout, with only one Gourmet trin running, Hoever this turned out a sucess, thanks to Mita Harding for the organisatin. Also one .of our Cabinet-makers gave a few tips fror the trade with an axe, July 2€-28 Second snow A.I.C. More snow, actually some around the hut, but unfortunately two davs bad weather.-some people went out and got stuck into vhe snowcraft although no offical instruction was held, Two ‘tramping trips in the Yeitewaewae area also ran, sut no reports available,

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Sources
Newsletter
Reference
newsletter scan 1974 - newsletter p7
Text from
Newsletter scan, OCR (not proofread)
Date confidence
low
Notes
trip date not exact; published in the August 1974 issue; date given as 'June - July 1974'; text: Tesseract OCR, not yet proofread (mean OCR confidence 78.6); brief round-up
Archive file
archive/reports/1974-06-00_trip-reports-june-july-1974/report.md
Record id
1974-06-00_trip-reports-june-july-1974