This text was read by OCR from a scanned newsletter and has not been proofread yet, so expect odd characters and mistakes.
A poor turn out for a lousy weekend. The sensible stayed at home. Pinnacle Ridge was our target. Friday night it rained, on ; Saturday morning the Atiwhakatu was still crossable. Question was if we went up Pinnacle Ridge would we be able to cross back again toe the campsites on the true right. .Decision - reverse the trip, do Pinnacle Ridge on Sunday. ; An early lunch in mid Atiwhakatu hut. It was raining harder than ever. Oh well, we can still de Pinnacle Ridge from the hut. It was a bit cold. We had-no axe. Never’ mind, the easy trip will soon ke along. They have an axe. They never arrived. The butcher's strike caused a peculiar stew - mince and bacon with assorted veg and. spices. : Afternoon in the pit. Evening : ain the pit, Night in the pit. By morning the bunk was getting mighty hard. Sunday morning was cold ~ very cold for November. Still raining but the river was down. We learned it was snowing above the SueP line, : Pinnacle Ridge -:no'- better Mountain House for lunch. So cold. fingers would not warm up, until the hill got the circulation going. No-one in’Mountain House. A quick. lunch.. Down to Holdsworth Lodge. By three p.m. all three parties'were together, and we fet off-glad to leave the mountdins to the rain. : One thing we learned was that. ‘Tongue and peat pace and PVC parkas de not leak, : All earner: <5 Pasha Mike Hollis ._ > Karen O'Byrne ne oe Jackson