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The Editor was told there were only il on this trip. I counted 19 on the trip list. Only 14 turned up at the Railway Station. but we gained another two enroute (Steve Burns via a taxi ride to Porirua,. and Sean Wakety out of the mist and torrential rain On; the mountain). “eel tee A yee —_— : Apart from all that, the eet I to Dawson Falls in ene ‘bus, een the 90-minute climb up the "golden" ladder to Kapuni Lodge during the pis hours of Friday and Raz AY hours of Saturday went O.K, This was going £o be a. "hang? weekend. No’ bars=hold, no sone’ tg ches. Welt’, the rain came down in arctie buckets-full on dawn, Saturday. a quick, very wet, trip to the.loo sorted the trip leader out and his decision to instruct from the pit for the RO BARD was met with Gerision all round. We wont ‘go into just heat ‘the knot came. undone. Suitide, to, say the trip’ leader now has a iarge lump on his back and-can. vouch: for the texture of the concrete entrance to Kapuni Lodge... 7, variety of. crevass—extraction methods were studied indoors during neues Be and. an equal variety of stews concocted during the Evening. Sund@ay dawned to a quiet wind Stent and I by 7.30 the aaah was scrambling upwerds towards Fanthams Peek, a quick yarn on how to rope up, and 2 series of slices, Gown to the bottom of the actual summit cone.
We climbed steadily upwards through two cloud layers, enjoying the release from the world below and the confident bite of crampons. Greg Aimer and the trip leader reached the summit crater in time to climb the Sister and the top, and dabble on Sharks Toath hefare the cloud th rose to engulf all. sh ——* +. One instructor, Chris Collins, fice ine held a slip on the. way up, illustrating to: all that static helaye, and. self-arrest: do: oe "to a certain Gegree" Greg and the trip leader both witnessed a spectacular fad: by: an" Auckland University climber from near the top’ Of I ‘Sharks: Tooth to its bottom. - So. much for. ice-screw na gy eg In thick aloud the ‘troops climbed down, apeeed almost continually at«this stage by the trip leader for the lateness of hour. © Pete, the driver, was littie,worriea, however, as Dawson Falls: hada. proved an hospitable spot to Hagen away. the hours... ? * Allin all, not e bac weekena and most ‘of us dia peng se ‘climb the greets auger