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This weekend offered a little of everything and plenty of realism. Ahout 25, including instructors, took part in this first snow Af Working “ott oF cur Whakapapa hut, the team spent most of Saturday. in the Broken Lea Gully erea and on the lower flanks of Pinnacle Ridge. The instructors ran through basics as overcast conditions with. the occasiona: snow snower eroze home the points made about intains. - One member. suffered from exposure _ :
conditions. in the : Ls. and was helped back to the Club hut. Sunday dawned x2. sH rwost climbed: to near the’ top of Ruapehu. The heam returnec * it for lunch and by late afternoon a regular blizzard was 3 _ ““Yieibility was so bad that a spot-light rigged to a 3; landsover was used té guide. the bus down to the Chateau.