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June 2019
Juliet Meldrum and Jono Falconer descending from Mitre Peak on their April trip. Heather Rhodes photo.
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Club Night Wednesday, 5 June 2019
University of Otago Staff Club, Union St, 7.30pm
This month’s guest speaker is mountain paraglider Bryan Moore. Bryan’s talk will cover a
'voluntary bivouac',
multiday expedition in
October 2016, involving a
North-South crossing of
the Himalaya from Leh to
Bir by paraglider with a bit
of walking thrown in
when the weather was no
good for flying.
It started off as a 5-person
team but had dropped to
just one by the middle of
the first flying day up the
Zanskar gorge. Ended up
reaching 7100m in the air
and slogging through a
blizzard on foot to reach
the 5100m Shingle La. "
This promises to be a great presentation and your last chance to buy Banff tickets at budget prices.
The Otago Climber The monthly newsletter of the
Otago Section of the New Zealand Alpine Club
June 2019
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Trips and events calendar . . . . Wednesday, 5 June 2019. Bryan Moore is this month’s Section Club Night speaker - at the University Staff Club as usual.
Banff Mountain Film Festival, 18 and 20 June, Regent Theatre Dunedin. More info and a link to the online booking form on the next page. For this year’s clip, check out https://vimeo.com/303143837
Mid-winter Christmas Party, 22 and 23 June. This year the Otago Section will return to French Ridge Hut, the site of the first mid-winter Christmas trip in recent history. We will retrace those early
explorers from 2008 by driving to the road end after work on Friday and walking to Aspiring Hut for the night. On Saturday we will continue the tradition by carrying far too much food, Christmas decorations, and a Secret Santa present up to the hut for our festivities. Sunday will offer a possible climb of Mt French, before returning to our cars and to Dunedin. If you’d like to book your place now, email [email protected] and we’ll send you the link to the section booking page.
Ski Touring , 29 and 30 June. Matteo is leading a ski touring club trip on the Old Man Range with the objective of reaching Nicholson’s Hut for the last Saturday of the 29th of June. The tour is easy and requires a moderate level of fitness and off piste ski ability. It will suit beginners who have had previous touring experience and want to move further away into remote places. If you’d like to book your place now, email [email protected] and we’ll send you the link to the section booking page.
The 17th NZ Mountain Film & Book Festival in Wanaka and Queenstown (28 June to 6 July) will host a wide range of shows in 2019. More details and bookings at https://www.mountainfilm.nz/
NZAC Climbing Camp , February 2020. Otago Section are once again hosting the NZAC Climbing Camp next year. This time at the remote Hunter Valley. Watch for more details soon.
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The Banff Mountain Film Festival is the largest, and one of the most prestigious, mountain festivals in the world. Hot on the heels of the festival held every autumn in Banff, Canada the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour hits the road. From approximately 360 films entered into the annual festival, the world’s best mountain films are chosen to travel the globe. The New Zealand Alpine Club is the proud NZ host of the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour, bringing the spirit of outdoor adventure to screenings around the country. In Dunedin, the local Section of NZAC has chosen a separate programme for each of the two nights – so coming to both will give you a huge range of films, with no repeats, plenty to please, and a good discount on the second night. The NZ Tour is the Alpine Club’s largest fundraiser with all proceeds from the Tour going towards supporting the Club with a range of programmes like the upgrade of Club Section gear, the purchase of mountain safety equipment which is available to anyone to hire, NZAC beginner instruction courses, Club hut maintenance, volunteer development and supporting youth climbing in Dunedin. The Banff tickets for 2019 are now on sale. Adult, $19.50 one night, $35 two nights; children, students and NZAC members, $15 one night, $25 two nights. Usual booking charges will apply when purchased at the Regent Theatre or online at www.regenttheatre.co.nz/show_event/banff-film-festival-world-tour-2019/ You can avoid these booking fees by purchasing at the next NZAC meeting on 5 June at Otago University Staff Club. When buying at the Club night, members MUST show their NZAC membership card to purchase tickets. We accept cash only and have available a very limited number of tickets – so a maximum of 5 tickets per person per screening please.
PLEASE NOTE - FOLLOWING THE CHRISTCHURCH SHOOTING, THE REGENT HAS INTRODUCED SECURITY
SCREENINGS. NO BACKPACKS ARE ALLOWED INTO THE THEATRE, AND PEOPLE WILL BE SCREENED / CHECKED
FOR METAL OBJECTS ETC.
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The Mueller and Tasman Glaciers 1929' Taken from a 16mm home movie of Frank Drewett this film includes images from the Mount Cook region and ski trips from the Hermitage Mt Cook. Frank has overdubbed this movie with commentary. Features: Ball, Mueller, Tasman Glaciers, backcountry skiing, Hooker and Mueller Huts, Hermitage Mt Cook, Alpine Guides, Byrd Expedition Antarctica sled dogs at the Hermitage for training on the glacier, Pineapple Rock. With thanks to Tom at NZAC HQ, the commentary has been sorted and the film has just been uploaded for viewing: “The Mueller and Tasman Glaciers 1929 with commentary by Frank Drewett”. https://vimeo.com/337631215 Also found via the Club’s Archive webpage: https://alpineclub.org.nz/the-nzac/heritage/archives-collection/ Does anyone have any information or family contacts for ex Club member, Frank H Drewitt, please? The enquiry is in relation to film holdings from his Estate and a request to NZAC from Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision Archive. Frank joined the NZAC as an Associate Member in 1937. Originally he was noted as living in Timaru before moving to Wellington around 1941. He was a speaker at a Wellington Section Meeting in March 1946 with a talk entitled ‘Ski-ing’. The last record we have for him is as a member in 1956, but no mention after that. Any assistance appreciated. Contact [email protected],
Missing: AP Harper Ice Axe We would like to put the word out for the return of the AP Harper Ice-Axe to the National Office Christchurch, please. It is quite distinctive for its extra length (left axe in image) and the initials AP are stamped into the axe-head. No questions asked we’d just really love to have this historical Club item returned so it can go back on display and return to its home. Contact [email protected] Thank you.
NZ Alpine Journals digitised Here’s the link to the new digital archive for the NZ Alpine Journal. https://alpineclub.org.nz/new-zealand-alpine-journal-digital-version-1892-2014/
Backcountry Ski-Touring in New Zealand Just in time for the new season after selling out last year, This book is your essential guide to the best backcountry touring and ski mountaineering in New Zealand. Whether you’re new to the world of backcountry snowsports, an enthusiast looking for inspiration, or an international traveller sampling what New Zealand has to offer, this guide will help you plan your next adventure. Often sold in tandem with Avalanche Awareness in New Zealand. Log in first for member rates: https://alpineclub.org.nz/product-category/guidebooks/skiing/
FMC Affiliation Discounts 2019 For members who have ‘FMC yes’ and received the Bulletin with their ‘The Climber’ magazine the updated FMC discounts are now online. https://alpineclub.org.nz/membership-benefits/member-discounts/ Some companies have online discount codes and to view those you need to be logged in as a member of NZAC. There are six new company discounts this year from: Earth, Sea, Sky; Good Rotating; Intents Outdoors; Kai Carrier; Westport Shuttles and Small Planet. Keep an eye out for your 2019 discount cards with the upcoming winter issue of The Climber coming soon.
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New Section Website for easy trip booking Sign-up now to get fast and simple trip information, booking and info. Just a reminder to section members that the Otago section has introduced a new trip planning system at our section website www.osonzac.org.nz. On the website, you can organize and join section events and events organized privately by members, and you can subscribe to email notifications when certain types of events (rock climbing, mountaineering, etc.) are posted to the site. Our aim with this site is to increase the number of trips organized by the section and improve our members' ability to connect with each other. To sign up for an account, please visit https://www.osonzac.org.nz/SigningUp.php. Non-members are also welcome. For those who have already signed up: please check your email preferences. The default setting is that you will receive no notifications. A number of people have requested accounts but not changed their email settings from the default.
Process for PLB hire . . . . The Otago Section has two PLBs for Section members to use when heading outdoors. Rental is free for NZAC members but $5 per day for non-members. So that we can track the rentals, and respond if something goes wrong, the Section has created an online booking form at https://goo.gl/forms/TQJrhMZxacHf30qP2 When the form is completed online the results are automatically loaded into a spreadsheet in the Section’s Google Drive, so we have a record of your rental and planned trip details. All that you do then is to arrange to collect a unit from either Keith Moffat [email protected] or Riley Smith [email protected] . Further contact details in the newsletter.
Section Safety Gear Rental
Our eight sets of avalanche equipment and eight sets of snowshoes are now available for rent from the new Hunting and Fishing shop, now at 141 Crawford Street, in Dunedin. The new shop is open seven days till 5.30 weekdays, 5pm Saturday and 4pm Sunday. More details at www.huntingandfishing.co.nz . The rental costs are $5 per day for an avalanche set of transceiver, probe and shovel and $5 per day for snowshoes for all Alpine Club members. You MUST show your current membership card to receive that rate. Not a member, or don’t have your card? Then the fee is $10 per day and you will be required to pay a $20 deposit. Members are welcome to collect gear on Friday and return Monday and two day’s rental will apply. If you wish to make other arrangements, please contact Keith or any of the committee and we will sort things out BEFORE you go into the shop. If you have any issues with the gear or rentals, please don’t hassle the staff at Hunting and Fishing as they are doing us a huge favour by running the rental scheme for us
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2018-19 Otago Section Committee
Chair Riley Smith 027 222 8731 [email protected]
Treasurer, Equipment Keith Moffat 027 6644037 [email protected]
Secretary, Newsletter Lindsay Smith 027 404 8911 [email protected]
Trips, Banff Film Festival Danilo Hegg [email protected]
Instruction Heather Rhodes 027 258 6534 [email protected]
Rock climbing Eve O’Brien 0276423211 [email protected]
Development Ryan Thomas 0273115723 [email protected]
Committee members Jono Squire 021326218 [email protected]
Alastair
Campbell
0211496636 [email protected]
Section Contact information
Otago Section of the New Zealand Alpine Club
c/o 172 Gladstone Rd, Dalmore, Dunedin 9016
Email: [email protected]
Web: https://alpineclub.org.nz/region/otago/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/osonzac
Trip info & booking: www.osonzac.org.nz
