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Tararua Range·Not graded

President's Annual FE Trip

April 1981 · Tararua (Cloustonville, Francis Creek, Maymorn Ridge, Renata, Elder biv, Alpha, Marchant)

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

Wellington reverberated to thunder as we set’out. But no rainstorm at Cloustonville. A short walk to.Francis Creeki.and up fly. Saturday at 7.15 we set. out up:: Maymorn Ridge. By 8.15 we realised we were senehere else, but. where? Back: we tracked.and by 9.00 were. headed . in the right:direction. . Morning tea at. Renata... Lunch . Was. supposed to be at Elcer bivvy, but we couldn't fine it. Mark was starving. Lunch in the rain. On and up Aston in storm gear. Allan got cramp but made a.dramatic recovery when fec salt tabs. By 6.00 we foune the comfort of Alpha. : . Next Cay was the drag down the Marchant, It was cold and clear. No problems getting lost. We met Jack and Chris out for a Sunday stroll with some Varsity types. I Mike Hollis, Allan Morrison, Dave Wills, Mark Sst. Clair, HowarG Biggs.

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Sources
Newsletter
Reference
newsletter scan 1981 - newsletter p21
Text from
Newsletter scan, OCR (not proofread)
Date confidence
low
Notes
trip date not exact; published in the April 1981 issue; id uses the issue month because the trip month is not stated; text: Tesseract OCR, not yet proofread (mean OCR confidence 84.6)
Archive file
archive/reports/1981-04-00_presidents-annual-fe-trip/report.md
Record id
1981-04-00_presidents-annual-fe-trip