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The Epic Newsletter of the ANU Mountaineering Club Winter 2005 The Epic Newsletter of the ANU Mountaineering Club Winter 2005 - Begninesr’ - ski Bengniser’ trip ski - In this issue trip Snow - Shoenig Snow - Ice climbing at Blue Lake - Beginners’ ski trip weekend in Shonegi - Women in sport snowskills- Snow shoeing in Kosciuszko Koscuisko in - Women in sport program - Square Rock Day Walk - Kousckio - Oldfields Hut walk - Club position descriptions Square - Rock Square day Rock walk day - wakl AGM and Club positions - AGM and Club positions In this issue THE EPIC Editors’ Blurb The EPIC is the quarterly newsletter of the Hello EPIC readers! ANU Mountaineering Club. Judging from the stories you’ll see in this EPIC, Winter 2005 has been another good season Editors: for the ANUMC. Since July solid snow condi- Patrick Keating 0428 747 111 tions have prevailed in the alps, which have 6262 6194 lured many club members out of their inad- [email protected] equately heated Canberra houses to realise Bronwen Davies 6292 3240 the best of the winter outdoors with ice climb- ing, xc skiing, snow shoeing and lots more. But 0408 251 020 the best part is that the biggest snow dumps [email protected] are usually in spring as the late September fronts Andrew Peters 0428 888 845 pass through so don’t hang up your skis and [email protected] stocks just yet! In addition to some entertaining reports cover- Postal Address: ing recent trips to the snow and Namadgi, this A.N.U. Mountaineering Club Epic brings you news about the Women in C/- Sport & Recreation Association, Sports Program and very importantly the up- Australian National University coming Annual General Meeting on 26 Octo- Canberra ACT 6200 ber. There is also information in this edition about the various positions on the Club Execu- All contributions, including photos and artwork, are tive and Committee that will need to be nomi- eagerly accepted. Photos at 300psi resolution via nated for and filled by people like you in order email are preferred, prints accepted. All care/no to keep the club running next year. If you care responsibility is taken. about the club you should read about the posi- tions and what they involve and consider nomi- Try to limit articles to 600 words. nating for any of the positions that interest you. Articles submitted may be edited for length and Remember, your participation in supporting the style. running of the ANUMC is what keeps the club alive. Note: If you’re printing the EPIC from the website, make sure you print as an ‘image’ to avoid any Also look out for the Fridge Door and Weekly formatting problems with your print-out. Activities as Spring 2005 is looking to be an action packed season with plenty of climbing and bushwalking trips planned to take advan- Club Membership: tage of the warmer weather. $15/year students $20/year non-students (plus SRA Membership Have fun and keep outdoors! Fees - Approx. $120 for non-students) Pat, Bron and Andrew Front Cover Photo: Andy soloing up the Ice Wall at Blue Lake, by Steve Flanagan. 2 THE EPIC President’s Report by Annabel Battersby Hi all, Red Snow gum: Near Mt Perisher I hope that everyone has had a fantastic winter, and is now looking forward to some fine spring weather (and even more trips to the snow!). The number of trips this winter has been fantastic, and there have , Photo: Pat Keating been some great snow trips, including the Women in Sport Snowskills Program (featured in this edition). The other news of the last coupleof months has been the launch of the new online trip submission system - this makes collecting information for trip trip leaders to make sure everyone on the trip has the leaders much easier, and also makes sure that all right experience level/equipment. I am taking this early relevant safety information is collected and is available opportunity to reflect on the achievements of this year (which makes our trips safer too). Please make sure as the next EPIC will feature a new President. you understand that expressing interest in a trip on the system does not mean you are on the trip - the trip Our Annual General Meeting will be held on 26 leader will make the final decision on who comes and October this year, and the Club will vote in a new you may be removed from the trip even if you Executive and Committee. I hope that many committee expressed your interest really early on. This is an and executive members will continue on in their present important safety aspect of running club trips - allowing roles, or different roles in the Club, but I know a number will be going overseas and will be unavailable. I wish them all the best. Please read through the descriptions of Club positions available and see if you could do any of them - the Club needs a large committee (30+) to keep it running as well as it does and we encourage anyone to consider joining the committee to help out. I wish everyone the best for the rest of the semester, and I look forward to the warmer outdoors weather coming. Annabel Snowshoeing in Kosciusko National Park Winter 2005. Photo: Mark Maslen Blue Lake By Gavin Evans Winter’s big dump had arrived and a few of Gav on the sharp end, Ice ClimbingAndy at Hall Blue Lake. Photo by us started thinking of the fabled Blue Lake ice (again). A team of five consisting of Gavin Evans, Andy Hall, Steve Flanagan, Rosalyn Hunt and Matthew Frazer formed up for the trip. Four days around the last weekend in July suited everyone the best. Matt flew in from Brisbane on the Thursday evening, minus a climbing pack thanks to Virgin Blue. As a result, our best laid plans went pear-shaped, and there was some frantic re-organising late Thursday night. Andy and Steve departed Canberra at 5am Friday morning in my car, with the intention of establishing the campsite, including digging a snow cave. All Roz, Matt and myself could do was to wait for a phone call from Virgin Blue. At 11am they found Matt’s pack – in Townsville!!! At 5pm, it finally arrived in Canberra, and the three of us were finally on our way to Guthega. Upon arrival at Guthega, we were famished and we cooked our evening meal beside the car, trying to shelter ourselves from the strong, cold westerly. Matt also finalised his packing. By 9.30pm we were on our way, head torches The approaching dawn plus a few cold spots had the blazing, heading for the “Flying Fox from Hell” with the three of us up early. Andy had sent an SMS with the intention of at least making it to Illawong Hut. camp’s grid reference, so with that knowledge, and some cunning tracking of snowshoe prints, we finally The warm weather of the previous week had arrived at camp at 10.30am Saturday. Good cheer and significantly reduced the snow pack and small sections friendly banter flowed freely. of bush walking/skiing were required. Around 12.30am we hit the wall. Although we couldn’t see Andy and Steve sorted their climbing gear and soon Illawong Hut we knew it was close so, satisfied with departed for Blue Lake, leaving the latecomers to dig our effort, we found a good rock to bivy behind. After out a platform and to set up the second tent. It took building a small snow wall to deflect some of the wind, some effort from the three of us to erect the tent while then a quick brew, we were in our sleeping bags preventing it from ending up in Victoria. A quick lunch looking up at millions of stars at 1am. Roz and her followed, then we also headed over Crummer Spur to oversized orange garbage/bivy bag was the butt of a Blue Lake. It’s amazing how time disappears when in few jokes. The beauty of the view quickly wore off the backcountry and by the time we arrived at the lake and soon we burrowed deep into our sleeping we only had time to practice some knee bruising self- bags….. arrests on a slick sun crust covered slope. Meanwhile, 4 THE EPIC Andy and Steve had managed to link up a number of high. Some starts have short vertical sections and it is a ice slabs and vertical steps in the Amphitheatre, popular beginners area. We set a good anchor from yielding a thoroughly enjoyable alpine route. which Roz could belay. I then gave her a few tips (don’t stand on the rope when wearing crampons, That evening we ate dinner in what seemed to be a full don’t stand below a climber who is wearing crampons, on hurricane. The snow walls built around camp did don’t hit the rope with your ice tools, etc, etc…..). little to reduce the onslaught. Matt and Roz were sitting Then I was off. The ice was thick and plastic as I led in the most exposed position and soon they were up the climb, and I quickly placed two low ice screws shivering. They headed to the warmth of their sleeping to avoid the potential of a factor 2 fall. After about bags early. Although our tents were fully pegged down, 15m the angle of the slope started to ease. I placed they flapped all night in the wind and all except Andy, another good screw and felt comfortable in running it who was in the small snow cave, had a restless night’s out for a while.
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