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Broken River Ski Trip

September 1983 · Craigieburn (Broken River ski field, Mt Hutt, Porters Heights)

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

“Twenty-two Tonzue and Meats and six hangers-on spent $350 .. for the best year yet! Nine fine days in a row with at ‘Least ‘ three fresh snow falls all at night made for great skiing. The first day was at Mt Hutt, most of the second day was at Porters! Heights and the rest were all at Broken River. The Big Mama. run at Porters was glorious, even if we had to miss out the top 500 ft. Broken River was icy on the first day, making those turns in front of the instructor difficult! The fresh powder snow was so deep that when Brian came out of his bindings it’ took ten of us 15 mimutes to find the buried ski. We had to leave on the Saturday but those who could still stand up went to Mt Hutt for the last day. WNext year - we'll book in February. 7 On the trip were: Michael Hollis, Brian Goodwin, Debbie and Paul Hughes, Neil & Glynis Woodrow, Chris Garton, Jeff Connell, Kerry Stevens, Dennis Hole, Ian Bunckenburg, Murray McRae, Jenny Greer, Neil Gillon, Tan Hadfield, . Rod Tindale, Peter Thorn, Joy & Peter Clark, Alex Gray, Karen O'Byrne, Wayne Hamilton, and non members ~ Joce & Martyn Rayners, Paul & Heather Richardson, Warwick Goldsmith, Paul Mahoney. :; , KAPAKAPANUT - RENATA ~ CLOUSTONVILLE - Medium Trip (Aug 19-21) 2B The weather forecast was «loomy: rain and a southerly change. A). When we were dropped by the bus at the bridge leading to of” me Neatiawa Camp rain was in the air, but it didn't dampen our ai < i? Spirits aS we splashed through the stream to the forks at the

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Sources
Newsletter
Reference
newsletter scan 1983 - newsletter p54
Text from
Newsletter scan, OCR (not proofread)
Date confidence
low
Notes
trip date not exact; published in the September 1983 issue; id uses the issue month because the trip month is not stated; text: Tesseract OCR, not yet proofread (mean OCR confidence 88.5); club ski trip
Archive file
archive/reports/1983-09-00_broken-river-ski-trip/report.md
Record id
1983-09-00_broken-river-ski-trip