Archived trip from old website run by sebastianwende
The Mountaineering Club is highly active in the snow from June to October, cross country skiing, AT skiing, snow shoeing, ice climbing, mountaineering, Yeti wrestling, kayak slalom racing, snow cave scotch appreciation and most hipster scarf competitions. This info night is the chance to:
Come along the Haydon-Allen Tank at 6:30 on Wednesday 25 May to:
- Hear all about what we do and see pictures of previous club trips
- Meet our keen skiers, snow shoesters, mountaineers and ask questions
- Find out about ski and mountaineering lessons!
All welcome - there's no need to be a club member to come to this info night. However, you will eventually need to join the club to come to the lessons or trips with the club.
In the meantime we encourage you to get involved with as many activities with the club as possible, participation in many of the club's snow trips will be contingent on previous experience. Go on overnight hikes to practice your camping skills, go canyoning and climbing to develop your rope skills, go orienteering to develop your navigation, go kayaking to develop your ski skills.
Camping in the snow is just as much fun as camping elsewhere but with an improved chance of hypothermia. If you get wet you will get cold and if your body temperature drops cuddling will provide only limited relief. If you can't get your stove going your planned delicious meal of 2 minutes noodles will be more miserable than you can possibly imagine. You'll want to practice packing lightly and efficiently given the extra warm sleeping bag, sleeping mat, 3 alpaca knit cardigans and insulated tin foil underwear you'll need to carry. Snow camping is not the time to experiment with which parts of your stove can be left at home or whether you really need the outer layer to your tent. Efficient rope work is critical, in the mountains time is always limited, it can be the difference between getting home while the pub is still open or after last drinks. You'll be working with cold, numb fingers so having practiced your European double fisherman's alpine death knot in the balmy confines of a Blue Mountain's canyon is often a matter of whether you finish the day with beers or not. If this hasn't sold you on the club's snow based activities you should probably stick to knitting, we can always do with more alpaca cardigans.
We will put up more details closer to this event!
The Mountaineering Club is highly active in the snow from June to October, cross country skiing, AT skiing, snow shoeing, ice climbing, mountaineering, Yeti wrestling, kayak slalom racing, snow cave scotch appreciation and most hipster scarf competitions. This info night is the chance to:
Come along the Haydon-Allen Tank at 6:30 on Wednesday 25 May to:
- Hear all about what we do and see pictures of previous club trips
- Meet our keen skiers, snow shoesters, mountaineers and ask questions
- Find out about ski and mountaineering lessons!
All welcome - there's no need to be a club member to come to this info night. However, you will eventually need to join the club to come to the lessons or trips with the club.
In the meantime we encourage you to get involved with as many activities with the club as possible, participation in many of the club's snow trips will be contingent on previous experience. Go on overnight hikes to practice your camping skills, go canyoning and climbing to develop your rope skills, go orienteering to develop your navigation, go kayaking to develop your ski skills.
Camping in the snow is just as much fun as camping elsewhere but with an improved chance of hypothermia. If you get wet you will get cold and if your body temperature drops cuddling will provide only limited relief. If you can't get your stove going your planned delicious meal of 2 minutes noodles will be more miserable than you can possibly imagine. You'll want to practice packing lightly and efficiently given the extra warm sleeping bag, sleeping mat, 3 alpaca knit cardigans and insulated tin foil underwear you'll need to carry. Snow camping is not the time to experiment with which parts of your stove can be left at home or whether you really need the outer layer to your tent. Efficient rope work is critical, in the mountains time is always limited, it can be the difference between getting home while the pub is still open or after last drinks. You'll be working with cold, numb fingers so having practiced your European double fisherman's alpine death knot in the balmy confines of a Blue Mountain's canyon is often a matter of whether you finish the day with beers or not. If this hasn't sold you on the club's snow based activities you should probably stick to knitting, we can always do with more alpaca cardigans.
We will put up more details closer to this event!
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