[CUTC Weekly Email] Term 4, Meeting 3

[Technowizard]

Hey folks!

There was some epic rafter climbing, a gaggle of people who can now pick
which plants they're wandering through and and a whole heap of hopefully
slightly less lost trampers. I hope you learned something, and remember
kids, next time you hanging from a rope, map in hand, trying to decide
exactly which hill you're hanging off, take time to smell the roses.

This week we have a speaker, the bad news is Geoff can't make it.  The good
is we have Jonathon Carr ready to entrance us with stories. There's even a
mention of a river bug, and no, its not small with wings. In fact you can
even play bugpolo with it!

intrigued?

Come along 7:30 Wednesday to hear more.

Daniel.


*Trips: 27th & 28th September*
 *Sudden Valley <http://www.cutc.org.nz/tripview.php?tripid=4>*
Difficulty: Medium
Leader: Tom
Starts from Hawdon shelter then follows the river into Sudden Valley gorge
(rapidly becomes impassible after only a little rain). Following track,
scramble up Devil's Chute and continue around Barrier Falls. Continue
upstream where the valley opens out and there are great views and camping
spots. It is possible to climb various peaks from here, but these are
medium-hard to hard.

The scramble up Devil's Chute makes for a lot of fun, if you're an
adventurous sort of person who enjoys a challenge. This part of the route
would see very little sunshine, and is constantly wet and slippery. Mind out
for stinging nettle as well! There is now a rough track up the shingle slide
just before the chute that provides alternative access to the top of the
chute itself. There are plenty of good solid tree roots to grab onto in the
chute itself - but no ropes like there were in the past. As far as coming
down goes there is only one way to come down - you just leap down and go for
it! It only takes a short time to travel in – about 2-3 hours.


*Ian's Fiordland mission:*

One of our club treasurers is heading down to the wet and wild south for a
mission next week. Give him a yell if you keen to tag along

Hey guys, I'm planning a mission down to Fordland, rain or shine, next week
wends-sun (not tomorrow) and am looking for some compatriots to partake in
the event. Basically  I've decided that  I want to visit Fordland as much as
possible(before you have to book walks and pay more) and waiting for the
rain to stop isn't an achievable goal, therefore I'm just going for it with
my lucky rabbit's foot and four leaf clovers in tow. Anyone who would like
to come do some walking and has their own anti-rain good luck charms is
welcome.

I am open to suggestions but right now I am looking at: 5 Passes,
Routeburn+Caples, George Sound, Kepler or maybe even the Milford with the
walk in and then something with our remaining days.  Ideally I would like to
leave tues around dinner time, drive down, camp and then have 5 days walking
and drive back late Sunday but depending on who is interested I could be
convinced to leave a day later on wens after school.  Right now there is two
of us but ideally if we could get 4 or 5 to split petrol it would be great.
If people wanted to do their own thing we could just drive together and
split petrol. I will be gone all of this week so send me an email with your
thoughts, feelings, hopes, desires and a short CV of good luck charms and
and I will email you Monday to get things together.

So come on internationals and kiwi's alike, realize your time a)in this
country(internationals) b)before death (kiwis) is precious and skipping the
end of one week isn't going to result in you failing a paper unless you were
going to already, in which case you should be enjoying your time even more.
Carpe Diem and come for a week that you'll remember, not just another one to
forget about.

Your overpaid, underworked treasurer,
Ian
atoverlord at hotmail.com
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