Archive:Tantalus Scrambling August 2008

Date

Aug 2 -- 4 (long weekend), optional: + 1 more day.

Details

This trip will involve a TYROLEAN river crossing. We would like to have somebody who knows what they are doing. If you know what you're doing, indicate so on the sign-up please!

We will be going to Lake Lovelywater and doing 1 or 2 days of scrambling from there. See Tantalus_Range or Matt Gunn's guidebook for more details on the available scrambles. Maria will be doing 1 or 2 of the easier routes at a reasonable pace.

Never scrambled? Wondering about safety/equipment? Here are some pointers.

* Each route has its own set of dangers which you should research before heading out (eg from Matt Gunn's guidebook) before going. Maria has a copy that she will bring, so does the club. 
* Having a climbing helmet helps when there is loose rock combined with steep sections.
* You must be able to tell when a route is so hard that you have a non-negligible chance of falling off. If it is, then you probably don't go there. Having climbing experience will help in making this judgment.
* If there is glacier traversing then the standard crevasse dangers apply. 
* If there are steep snow slopes on the route you should probably have crampons, ice axe, similar gear. Standard avalanche risks apply for routes on or near steep snow slopes.

Sign-up

This trip does NOT have a limit on the number of people that can go. .. well, if there are 30 it may be unwieldly, but it won't come to that.

1. Maria M
2. Matthieu Sturzenegger
3. Agathe Lemaire
4. Rossi Billie Velapatino
5. Anton Bezglasnyy
6. Mohammad Mohammadnia_Avval
7. Jan McPhee
8. Colin Vincent