Wellington section members Colin Cook and Ron Stutter, with Stuart Hutson and Michael Buchanan, drove to Rangataua after work on Friday and set their alarm for 4.15am. The following morning, in excellent snow conditions and with a magnificent cloudless windless day they climbed the Mangaehuehu Face on Girdlestone before heading back to Wellington. After summiting, Colin and Michael made a “detour” to complete a Girdlestone-Tahurangi traverse on the way back down. Ron Stutter NATIONAL OFFICE REQUEST NATIONAL OFFICE REQUEST - Old Annual Reports As part of our ongoing sorting, it has come to light that our Hocken Archive Collection and National Reference Library are missing copies of our Annual Reports as follows: Archive: Pre 1963, 64,65,66,68,69,78,79,83,87,89,93 Library: Pre 1998 (except 1981) Please have a look to see if you have any old copies stashed away that you may be able to help us out with. They can be sent to Margaret at NZAC, PO Box456,Christchurch Mail Centre 8140 Thank you DISCOUNTED PUBLICATIONS NZAC will no longer be selling MSC36 Avalanche Accidents once our remaining stock of 13 is gone. Be in to purchase a copy for the below cost price of only $10 each, plus p&p. Plus, don’t forget our other special offer of the Taranaki or Wellington Rock guides $15 each, or $25 the pair, plus p&p DISTAGHIL SAR AWARD Thanks to all those who expressed an interest in receiving an award from the Distaghil Sar Fund. Awards are made to those who attend courses and then use from they have learnt to contribute towards the Section’s instruction courses in Rock and Alpine. This year we say congratulations to Blair Hiscoke, the Co-ordinator of the Summer Rock programme and an Assistant Instructor on AIC, who received an award to attend a Rock Instruction Course in the Darrans with Paul Rogers. Well done, Blair. NZAC BULLETIN – NO. 1 Recently discovered in an old NZAC Alpine Journal was an original of the NZAC’s first Bulletin of 1946. While this will be sent to our Hocken Archives, a scanned copy is available for member’s interest on our Library webpage 348. Quite a few other interesting bits and pieces of Club info has also been found in the same way. Should any of you come across any, please send it to Margaret at the National Office, so that it can be preserved in our Archive Collection. CLIMBING CAMPS
