Teaching girl guides snowcraft

On the 6-8th July, Jenny Beaumont and Steve Austin took a club van up to Ruapehu – along with 10 girl guides/rangers from the Wellington region and 3 guide leaders. We stayed at the Scout lodge (just along the track from the WTMC lodge) and taught the girls basic snowcraft skills – walking in snow, crampon use, self-arresting, avalanche transceivers etc. We had the most amazing weather (blue skies and not a breath of wind) and had a great weekend. Let’s hope we get the same conditions for the WTMC snowcraft course!