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August School Holiday Ski Weeks

17–24 August 1979 · Mt Ruapehu

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

Under the. democratic leadership of Allan Higgins, the first scelwol holiday ski week (August 17-24) was a _great ‘success despite indifferent weather. During the first: fowr days light snow fell intermittently covering rocks and creating ideal powder conditions, Virtually all skieé,

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And then the rain came cown. Within 24 hours over 2 foot of snow disappearec from around the hut. The dozen or so parents were kizpt entertainec by the 18 or so children ... or was it the other way round??? Spare boxes were quick ut into birds and fish and mace into hanging mobiles and gi gsaws, You know, some of the perents in the club are quite im 2 Weather conditicns picked up near the end of the week and those still mentally with us spent time on the National Downhill. If some of the little ones (from four up) continue tc ski the way they were during August, then warnings should be posted - we have budding downhill bombers ew ewcdee

The second August week, under Karem Boswell's totally organised direction, BEEN 3 jackpot: 4 week of absolutely beautiful weather. Although the snow a little thir in places, most facilities were working and the major ski slopes were groomed, Karen was up te the mark with her brilliant crgenisation and her small baok on the week's activities brimmed with oefficiency.-:. The.food list (which be all the Editor was allowed to see) was enough to meke even @ full stomach grumble with delight. He es . :

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Sources
Newsletter
Reference
newsletter scan 1979 - newsletter p46-47
Text from
Newsletter scan, OCR (not proofread)
Date confidence
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Notes
text: Tesseract OCR, not yet proofread (mean OCR confidence 85.7); club ski weeks
Archive file
archive/reports/1979-08-17_august-school-holiday-ski-weeks/report.md
Record id
1979-08-17_august-school-holiday-ski-weeks