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Inland Kaikouras (August)

August 1978 · Inland Kaikoura Range (Pinnacle/Toppy saddle)

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

Kaikouras - sometime in Fugust raul Aubrey, Tony Gazley and myself went down to the Inland Kaikouras to do some climbing. Unfortunately the snow. conditions were hopeless - hopelessly deep and soft, and it took .us all our energy to struggle up Tappy. Tony plougheé up to Pinnacle/Tappy gadGle where he found himself a neck deep hole - ah, too much so Tony skied down from here. We re~ sorted to all sorts of techniques, such es crawling on the snow

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Gigging cut a trench etc. but J still think it's a very nice area. Why don’t you try it? : Tes : a. ts 24 : ra 7 : o> Gags PAUL RICHARDSON 7 = oa : : = - 3 wns a f Fisica m

About this record

Sources
Newsletter
Reference
newsletter scan 1978 - newsletter p46-47
Text from
Newsletter scan, OCR (not proofread)
Date confidence
low
Notes
trip date not exact; published in the October 1978 issue; date given as 'August 1978'; text: Tesseract OCR, not yet proofread (mean OCR confidence 81.0)
Archive file
archive/reports/1978-08-00_inland-kaikouras-august/report.md
Record id
1978-08-00_inland-kaikouras-august