Archive:Tantalus Scrambling August 2008

Date

POSTPONED from Aug 2-4 long weekend to Labour Day (September) Long weekend

Details

This trip will involve a Tantalus_Range#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!

Bring gloves for handling the disgusting metal cable, or it will be unpleasant.

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. Matt Gunn's and Bruce Fairley's guidebooks are good references. Maria has a copy of Matt Gunn's book that she will bring, so does the club.
• Having a climbing helmet is important to protect you from the danger of falling rocks. All routes at Lake Lovelywater are subject to rockfall hazard.
• 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 must have an ice axe (and possibly crampons), and know how to use it.

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.

Carless

1. Jan McPhee
2. Pawel Mirski
3. Madalene E
4. Ignacio Rozada
5. Tim C

Rides

Please post cars with # of available seats, departure and return times.

Colin's sexy beast (departing saturday morning @0600ish coming back monday afternoon)

1. Colin
2. Piotr
3. Anne
4. Ran
5. Caleb S

Michael's car

1. Michael
2. Matthieu
3. Maria
4. Yanna