General

Hi all,

Last weeks scheduled committee meeting was postponed by a week. 6.30pm at Mel's place this Tuesday. If you have any agenda items please send them through to steven m hare [at] gmail dot com

We will head down to hospital rocks in Nowra on Friday morning at 5am. Warm up starts at 2am, expected cost $3000 and must provide own parental supervision. 

Seriously though we will head down on Friday morning and climb until late afternoon and then head to jervis bay to camp for a surf on Saturday after which we head back to canberra

I will be organising some workshops in self rescue aimed at climbers. It will consist of weekly sessions at the climbing wall for around 4 weeks. Some possible topics are

1. knots, prussiks and ascending

2. locking off, ascending, moving between ascending and descending, abseiling past a knot

3. sport anchors

4. basic pulleys

5. escaping the system, lowering with device in auto-lock mode,

6. rescue spider, rescuing a climber that can't be lowered, improvising,

although it is unlikely that we'll fit all of this in.

Volunteers wanted to look at bushwalking-related gear at the gear store and work out what we may need - More Rain jackets in a size medium? Gaiters? Portable coffee maker? Boots? Firefly lantern? Gas cannisters and metho to purchase? Come by, grab a beer and have your say!

After the the stocktake, I will put a list together for the Exec to consider. Also after the stocktake there is optional LAKSA at dickson asian noodle house (or whatever it is called)

Make your say in 2018 count!

That's it ...

Training session for our new Gear Store Officers. 

Please only sign up for this if you were selected as a gear store officer at last year's AGM. If you are interested in becoming a gear store officer, please let me know!

G'day Team, this is a place-holder for the 2018 Market Day

We're seeking volunteers to staff the ANUMC Stall on Market Day during O'Week (nominally 12-16 Feb 18). Volunteers will have to field questions from new students and process membership applications. We will have a wide selection of club gear to available to promote the club.

Volunteers can sign up closer to the date by adding their names to an attached Google Spreadsheet. If you can only do a short period, that is fine, every bit helps.

Instructions and equipment will be provided on the day.

NEW TIME: Now meeting at 7pm

This is a meeting for people planning on coming to the NZ Extravaganza in Jan-Feb 2018

http://anumc.org.au/node/1274

We'll discuss the basic plan, get out some maps and look at places we'd like to visit, figure out some more precise dates, and discuss what skills will be needed. Afterwards we might do some rope practice at the climbing wall.

Meet at the gear store at 6pm

Dates updated based on expected packraft availability.

There is some interest in hiring a few packrafts for a weekend in October or November and running a few trips using the set of hire fees.

Proposed structure of the weekend would be:

Friday - paddle on the lake with packrafts and kayaks for boat familiarity.

Saturday - Small runs on the murrimbidgee or similar. A chance to give everyone a go.

Sunday longer full day trip doing a hike/raft somewhere close to canberra.

Each year the club undertakes a stocktake of our gear. It's time for us to spend a few hours on our kayak gear stocktake at the boatshed. If you have paddled a sea or whitewater kayak this year, or even watched a video of someone kayaking, then you are entitled (encouraged!) to assist in this important activity. It's also a great way to get familiar with our range of paddling equipment.