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Trips That Ran (September 1976)

September 1976 · Sinclair Head (Wellington south coast); Mt Robert; Ruapehu

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

Sinclair Head: : 42 Trompers including 12 children saw seals, old gun emplacemenc:: a creex that disappears, glorious views of the South Island and = oeric-t spring day, The trip finished at 79 Farnham Street wit? eating, Grinking and talking evenly distributed. A good value Say trip) Dave Capper.

te ft. Rebert: -n spite of problems outside cur control such as ferries not running due to bad weather, strikes etc, the odd trips have been managing to get away and in the main have experienced good weather =nd plenty of snow. Surprisirgly the same faces have appeared on most of the trips with a struggle to fill the last couple of oaces, Although the weekenr. is slightly more expensive thar suapehu 65.00 APProx ) the amoint of skiing is only limited by how “cet you can si down the slop::, If you haven't visited Mt, Ro. “at make a note to give it a gc next year, It is well worth it, eevee

Ruapehus For the first time in many years a weekend trip was snowed in at Ruapehu, A few hardy souls managed to get home very late Sunday night but the majority arrived very early Tuesday morning after Runciman Motors had sent a spare bus to the Chateau,

Obviously we had more trips running but I haven't had the time to chase up reports so next month how about a few lines from trip leaders, Noel Thomas,

About this record

Sources
Newsletter
Reference
newsletter scan 1976 - newsletter p45-46
Text from
Newsletter scan, OCR (not proofread)
Date confidence
low
Notes
trip date not exact; published in the October 1976 issue; date given as 'September 1976'; text: Tesseract OCR, not yet proofread (mean OCR confidence 88.3); brief round-up including the first snowed-in Ruapehu weekend in years
Archive file
archive/reports/1976-09-00_trips-that-ran-september-1976/report.md
Record id
1976-09-00_trips-that-ran-september-1976