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newsletter 2000 no. 4
canterbury university tramping club
Newsletter 2000
number 3, July 2000.
A publication of
Canterbury University
Tramping Club
c/o- UCSA, Private Bag
4800, Chriustchurch
Captains’ comment:
So you think you ve made it?
Think you ve managed to survive
a whole year of CUTC? Well, we
hate to tell you this but there is still
one last term of uncorrupted fun
ahead that you must get through,
and then of course there is the .
Of course we wouldn t do that to
you, but we will try and get you
away from your desks and out into
the fresh air. The last term can
relapse into one big study marathon, but it doesn t have to be that
way. Taking time out, even just
for a few hours or a day keeps your
study really ticking along nicely.
Early in the term would be an ideal
time to get into the snow and practice the snow skills while there is
still a dusting on the hilltops. It
was great to see so many people
on the basic snow craft courses.
Everyone looked really good strutting around, showing off their flatfooted cramponing technique or
their self-arresting style. To get the
most out of the snow craft course
it is really important that you go
another trip to practice the skills
you ve learnt. We d like to thank
the instructors and the cooks that
made these weekends possible —
where else can you get a weekends
snowcraft course for $25?
Editor:
Philip
Lamb;
phil@eden.net.nz
P.O. Box 25-252, Victoria St,
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Thanks to Stew Hardie, Jamie
Gaskill, Ben Franzmayr
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Bush Ball really lived up to reputation for being the party of the
year. This medieval extravaganza
had wizards, princesses, jesters
and even the odd beggar. A nameless person showed remarkable
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insight by calling Fred an EC —
Entertainment Centre on the drive
in and then preceded to be enter tained all night . Clare jingled the
entire way in her hat with bells on
but was out done by the medieval
Steve who walked in wearing his
costume, a sack. Will also came
out of his tent later in the morning
with a new-found friend.
There was much revelling done
and some great food was served.
However the best part was the
freely flowing liquid. Some of the
company including Steve, Jonno,
and Kylie didn t seem to be able
to keep it all inside of them. In
fact Kylie continued to feel the
after affects for several days ( it
must have been a stomach bug )
and was duly awarded the toilet
seat for his efforts. David won the
costume award, although there
were voices around saying that he
should have won the other award
too! And ladies, if you ever
wanted to marry the king of the
land, Rene, you should have been
there, as rumours abound that he
wed no fewer than four brides that
night!
When the morning arrived, those
not hung over appreciated the sport
of watch who gets out of which
tent . Yummy porridge was eaten,
and a spring clean of the hut took
place. Many thanks to those who
cleaned up. On the way out Phil
B. hooked the stereo up in his
pack, so we tramped along to our
favourite tracks. I recommend this
as a way to tramp!
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So, if you enjoyed last term, then
get ready to get funky this term.
Yes, warmer weather is just around
the corner, so enjoy the snow, but
also look forward to some of that
summer style tramping, swimming
in the rivers, tarns, or running naked down the beach in the Abel
Tasman!!!
In terms of trips, there are some
awesome trips coming up, including the infamous Otehake hot
pools, Gloriana and Faerie Queene
and the Lewis Pass tops (with a
visit to the hot pools). You know,
you can never go wrong with hot
pools, hmmm toasty.
For the holidays If people have
ideas on what they want to do or
where they want to go give Greg a
call on 338-2497 or email him at
gch41@student.canterbury.ac.nz.
Get your ideas to him ASAP so we
can let other people know about
the trips.
Anyway, we also have some fun
Wednesday nights coming up for
you folks, including car rallies,
CUTC Olympics, and not to forget our end of the year party, with
awards to be handed out for all
sorts of antics. So lets make the
most of this term, and get some
candidates for some of these
awards.
do not worry, these nights actually
end up being fun, the serious part
only takes about 10 minutes. It is
important that you are there so that
you can also vote for the future of
the club. You may even which to
nominate yourself for some position. If you do, give Rene or Clare
a call.
Also team, don t forget your
TROG stories. If you would like
to be etched in stone and be famous forever, then send a story to
our TROG editors, and it will go
in our magazine. Don t be just another person that went through the
tramping club, write a story. By the
way there is CHOCOLATE involved, a block for each story submitted!
This term is all about reflecting
about what you have done this
year, and how much you actually
wanted to do, try it. So, how far
off were you from your ideal?
Miles? Well there is still time .
Anyway, our advice this term is to
get out of that hot sweaty study
seat, and get fresh, go tramping.
It s your last chance for 2000.
See you out there.
Rene and Clare
We also have our beloved AGM
coming up, joy and rapture! But
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jonno’s presidential piece
G day everyone. This is just a
short spiel about committee positions and what is involved, in
an attempt to raise your awareness of what goes on behind the
scenes and to encourage you to
get involved either directly or indirectly with the running of the
club next year.
Before I give an outline of the
various committee positions
(some of which will need to be
filled at the next AGM) I d like
to stress that getting involved is
it s own reward. The club has
around 300 members and several
thousand dollars move through it
each year, so being part of the
committee is a great opportunity
to gain some basic skills with respect to organising and managing large groups of people and significant amounts of money
flow. Ands while there are responsibilities that must be taken
seriously, the committee generally approaches the running of
the club in a relaxed and sociable manner. Enough of the sales
pitch; here, in a nutshell, is what we do...
can be basically summarised as telling people what s happening. The responsibilities of gear locker officers are fairly selfexplanatory. Membership officers record
and organise membership details. The environmental officers liase with DOC. Social officers organise all the fun stuff (Yay!
Bushball cranked!). And last, but not least,
TROG editors edit TROG, the end of year
magazine, and the newsletter editor brings
all this to you.
I hope I haven t forgotten any positions.
For more detailed job descriptions take a
look at the descriptions on the club s
website (www.cutc.canterbury.ac.nz), or
talk to any good committee member near
you...
And just to reiterate what I said earlier,
we ll be looking for nominations to fill
some of these positions in an AGM coming up this term, and club members will
be asked to vote for the nominees.
Cheers,
Jonno.
By far the most important position is club
president (Ha! —Ed.). This is where all the
work is done, while the rest of the committee is pretty much a managerial embellishment. Well, actually, this isn t entirely true
club captains have a very important role, organising meetings and overseeing most of
the clubs events. Treasurers take care of the
clubs finances (for those of you who are unaware, we re a non-profit club), and the secretary takes care of, well, secretarial stuff.
The instruction officer s job is to organise
first aid, snow craft, river crossing and rock
climbing courses. The safety officer keeps
an eye on these courses, as well as the trips
going away each week. The trips officer
basically organises these weekly trips, and
attempts to bring like-minded people together (just like Chuck Willery). The publicity officer s responsibilities are varied, but
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ben’s presidential piece
Spring is here! I saw daffodils just yesterday! Yes warmer days are upon us
soon so go and enjoy the snow quickly
in its full soft, sparkling splendour before it retreats for another year to hide,
sulking, at the uppermost tops of the
alps. But I hear you say , it ll be back
next year — I ll go then. Well you can t
be sure of that — our time is limited and
as each precious weekend slips by there
is another opportunity lost, another
place you might never see, another
friend you might never make.
Why so contemplative? Because I ve
just accepted a full time job at
AgResearch, Palmerston North and I ll
be shifting there very soon (14th Sept).
I ve been in the CUTC for 6 years now
and it was my first year that I actually
did the most trips. In the last few years
I was enslaved by the part time job that
consumed my weekends like Adrian
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Monks consumes mealmates I
have a long list of places I want to go
but after all this time I haven t visited half of them!
So it is with very mixed feelings that
Demelza and I leave Christchurch to
live up there — on one hand we will
miss those CUTC meetings and trips
and all the fantastic people that make
up this club and also my other friends
and family. On the other hand I will
now have a cool job in the field I want
to work in with EVERY WEEKEND
OFF!!!! Yes, I ll make very good use
of those weekends because I now realise more than ever how important
it is to get out there and do things you
enjoy. It s one of those you don t
know what you ve got till it s gone
things.
The good news is that Massey University has an Alpine Club (MUAC
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— www
.massey.ac.nz/~muac/. It looks like it has a
broader focus than us — tramping, alpine, skiing,
kayaking, MTBing etc (including hot pools — I m in!).
I m looking forward to joining up with them and I
really want to do a bit of an Ideas Exchange thing
between CUTC and MUAC. I m sure both do things
that the other can learn from and I ll report back and
make suggestions later this year.
Another thing that caught my attention recently was
an article in the current FMC Bulletin (pick up a copy
from the gearlocker) about Te Araroa —The Long
Pathway (www.teararoa.org.nz). This is a 20-yearold idea of creating one continuous walkway from
North Cape to Bluff. There is now a group that is
actively working on this. They are currently focussed
on the North Island but it won t take long until they
look at the South Island. They welcome input from
clubs & groups into where the walkway should go
and also creating and maintaining it. Groups could
adopt a stretch of the trail. The CUTC has always
had a culture of giving something back which is
illustrated by the building of our hut at Avoca valley,
wilding-pine removal expeditions, our FMC membership, track maintenance trips in recent years and
our upkeep of Steeds hut in Arthur s Pass village (until recent years because it got sold by the UCSA). I
think this is a great opportunity to get into this project
and I am working on it at the moment. If we want,
we can probably have a significant impact on the
South Island route — which is good since the current
trust seems to be a bunch of North Islanders! It s well
worth checking out the website which chronicles the
journey of Geoff Chapple - the guy who initiated this
again and who walked the length of the North Island
and tells of his trips and adventures — really good
reading!
In the meantime Jonno is having a well-deserved holiday in the US of A before he starts his PhD next year
(so he ll be around for a while). The position of President actually has a 2-year term in our constitution to
provide continuity so unless he can t do it, he will be
next year s President as well. He is hoping to walk a
part of the Appalachian Trail which is the Te Araroa
concept in America and quite a classic trail with a
long history (www.atconf.org) and also long length
(2167.1 miles). It will be interesting to hear back from
him next year.
This term brings a few more great trips and
events and despite the looming examinations, you should all try to go on at least
one trip — even those of you who may not
have had any significant involvement with
the club so far — it is never too late to start
and we welcome you at any time of the year.
By the time you read this, our first Rubber
Chicken event this year, abseiling off the
Chemistry building will have happened.
Yeah, Baby! Eight stories of pure adrenaline! Thanks to David Bones who organised it.
That s it from me, I won t say goodbye because I plan on staying involved with the
CUTC and I hope to meet you all again next
year sometime.
Benjamin Franzmayr
PS: what do you think I will do on my last
weekend in Christchurch? I ll follow my
own advice and go tramping!
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From the
mailbag…
✐ Copies of the Federated Mountain Clubs Bulletin
August 2000 are available for perusal from the
gear locker officers. CUTC is an FMC affiliated club,
and it provides us with national representation.
The bulletin is packed full of interesting stuff. Of
note: the FMC Wild Lands Recreation Management Conference is being held at Rotoiti Lodge,
St Arnaud, 13-15 October.
✐ MapWorld, the Christchurch-based specialist map
shop has published “TopoMap New Zealand on
CD-ROM”. This is a seamless, digital map covering the whole of NZ in 1:50 000 and 1:250 000
scales, and includes features such as searching by
place or feature name, cut and paste, and printing of maps. Prices range from 59 for South Island 1:250 000 series only, up to 499 for the
whole of NZ at 1:50 000. Could be a valuable addition to the club gear locker, or your own personal gear. See MapWorld on the corner of
Gloucester and Manchester St.
✐ Department of Conservation is currently seeking
volunteer hut wardens for the summer season.
You basically stay at a hut in the Arthur’s Pass area
and keep an eye on it for a week or more. You
need the basic tramping equipment yourself too.
These are reasonably prime jobs, they look good
on a CV too. See Fred de Zwart for more details,
or contact Ann Shepherd from DOC directly,
(03) 318 9086.
✐ A fundraising drive is on for the planned
Tuatapere Hump Ridge track, Southland. The track
will be a 53km, three day/two night walk through
forest, coastal and sub-alpine areas. If you’ve got
50 to spare, why not “purchase” a piece of the
track? A guy called Rhys Owen is organising the
fundraising, (03) 213 1516.
✐ Global Village Backpackers, Greymouth send details of their accomodation, plus route guides for
two great tramps in the Grey River area to which
they offer drop-off and pick-up services. The
Croesus and Inland Pack tracks are both two-day
tracks rated easy. The latter takes in the “Ballroom” which some of you will have seen in a slide
show during term 3. The prices are pretty reasonable, from 16 per night pp. They’re at 42-54
Cowper St, Greymouth, phone (03) 768 7272.
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✐ The NZ Snow Safety Institute has been running
courses at Temple Basin. They may all be over by
now, but contact Anna Everton, (021) 669113 if
you’re interested, even for next year.
✐ Bivouac Outdoor (one of our sponsors) head office has moved to 435 Tuam St.
✐ A letter! (I swear these are not made up!)
Dear Sir,
I wish to comment regarding the letter from
IPOOF about avalanche poodles (Newsletter
3).
You big bunch of tossers. Get hard. It's
people like you that give people a bad name.
We are the superior species on this planet,
and in our quest for world domination, we
shall require the services of anything else that
moves. Thus poodles will be used to test every
and all snowy slopes, so that we may not
break toenails in an avalanche.
But let it not stop there. I will be putting
forward proposals to implement other policies. I recommend using: Monkeys to test
dodgy looking climbing ropes, Buffalo for
testing depth and swiftness of river crossings,
Peacocks to continuously monitor wind
strength levels, Giraffes for the testing of
unstable rock or scree slopes, Baby elephants
to stress test all dodgy swingbridges and
Canaries to monitor dangerous gas build up in
long-drops.
If any further wimp groups have issues with
this, I further refer you to the start of this
letter, making the appropriate name substitutions as necessary.
Yours on top of the world,
Sue P Ria
What about Gerbils? –Ed.
✐ For a more detailed look at any of the items I’ve
mentioned above, the chap to see is David Bones.
Letters from Club members and any interested public, and replies to such letters were welcomed, but
now you’ll have to wait until next year!
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Trips and meetings for Term 4
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this term for you to practice on.
Also for those people who know a
bit more and want to extend themselves then there are some harder
trips too.
9-10 September
Lake Daniels - This trip is a nice
easy walk into Lake Daniels. Stay
in the hut right on the waters edge
then come out the next day. A
great trip for those who want to be
relaxed for the rest of the term.
Grade - Easy
Duration - Overnight
Gloriana and Faerie Queene This trip is at the other extreme
from Lake Daniels. Drive up Friday night and walk into Cannibal
Gorge hut in the dark. Then the
next day head up the hill and camp
in one of the high basins. On Sunday make an assault on the two
peaks come back to the camp, pack
up and race out to the car. These
two peaks are the highest peaks in
the Lewis pass area and will provide great views. Snow skills and
a warm sleeping bag will be re-
quired.
Grade - Hard
Duration - Two Nights
13 September
Meeting 2
CUTC Olympics or a guest
speaker, we re not quite sure, but
we will keep you up to date.
16-17 September
Mt Technical - A peak with a
name to match the climb. Head
up the night before and stay at
Sylvia Flats (in the Lewis Pass).
Then the next day make an early
start up the hill until you find a
proper ridge. Follow this ridge up
until reaching the top. Once there
take in the views and worry about
how to get back down. Snow skills
and a good head for heights are required. PS it s not as bad as I ve
made out. J
Grade - Hard
Duration - Night and Day Trip
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Thousand Acre Plateau
Well it s the last term of the year
and my time as trips officer is almost up. It s not quite what I expected with fewer people going
away on some trips than I had anticipated. Maybe this is due to the
workload a lot of people have.
This term I m trying some night
and day trips. These trips head
away on a Friday or Saturday night
and stay at Sylvia flats then the
next day they do a day trip. Hopefully people will be keen to do
these trips as you still get a day to
do study and also there isn t as
much driving to be done on one
day. If people a keen to do a trip
or are just thinking about doing
one then make sure you go and see
the person in charge of the trip
straight away. There have been
several trips this year where only
two people turned up and they
were told the trip wasn t going
away only for two or three more
people to turn up half an hour later.
For those of you who have not yet
practiced your newly learnt snow
skills then there are several trips
Lewis Pass Tops - Head up the
night before to Sylvia Flats and
enjoy the hot pools. The next
day follow the tracks of the
group heading up Mt Technical
at a slower pace though. Sample the tarns and botanise until
your heart s content. Then
come back down the same way
or go down waterfall creek if
you want a bit more excitement.
Grade - Easy
Duration - Night and Day Trip
20 September
terwards relax in the hot pools at
Hanmer Springs.
Grade - Easy
Duration - Day Trip
27 September
Meeting 4
AGM and Chocolate Game
Ever wanted to be elected? Well tonight s your chance. There are plenty
of prestigious positions up for grab,
so come along. Also you won t want
to miss our world record attempt at
the biggest Chocolate Game Ever.
It s been evident on trips that many
of you have been training all year
for this one so you won t want to
miss it.
30 September - 1
October
Mt Fyffe - Mt Fyffe provides great
views of the Kaikoura coastline
and you may be able to see the
North Island if the day is clear.
Head up the hill and stay at the hut
partway up the hill, then the next
day continue up to the top and take
Meeting 3
The warmer weather will mean
it s the perfect time for a night
stroll. Come wander the hills
with us tonight. Don t forget
to bring a torch and some warm
clothes.
23-24 September
Henry River - Boucher
Stream - This is the trip for you
if you want to improve your
route finding skills. Travel in
mostly untracked terrain to
Anne Hut. Anne Hut is in the
middle of the St James walkway
(Lewis Pass) but can be
accessed via Henry River. This
trip involves crossing two
passes which will provide good
views.
Grade - Medium
Duration - Overnight
Mt Isobel - A nice daytrip
above Hanmer Springs. Head
up the waterfall track and then
continue on to the top. Come
down the same way or do a
loop. Great views into the
Molesworth region and good
views of the Amuri Basin. AfNEWSLETTER 2000 NO. 4
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in the view.
motorized scavenger hunt. Teams
in cars will compete to find clues
Grade - Easy
around the city. After the success
Duration — Overnight or night and
of the last scavenger hunt this one
day
has to be a biggy!
Mt Torlesse - A chance to practice your snow skills if the snow
conditions continue. Start at the
base of Porters Pass then head up.
5hrs later and you ll be slightly
higher with a much better view.
Since the route follows a ridge
anyone who has done basic
snowcraft will have no trouble
with this trip.
Grade - Medium
Duration - Day Trip
4 October
Meeting 5
The stress is mounting so what you
need is a completely wacky event.
It s got to be the completely silly
7-8 October
Carrington Hut - Something a bit
different, a valley trip. Start just
before Arthurs Pass and head up
the Waimak River for 4hrs until
reaching the classy Carrington
Hut. You can now relax or if you
aren t tired yet why not go exploring. Carrington Hut is set amongst
some majestic mountains and also
on the walk in requires no climbing.
Grade - Easy
Duration - Overnight
Cameron Hut - This trip heads
into an area that the club doesn t
visit much but that doesn t mean
it s not any good. In fact this
would have to be one of the better
huts that a tramper can get to without using an ice axe and crampons.
The hut is situated in the
Arrowsmith ranges (Up to 2700m
high) and waking up beneath these
mountains will be something that
you won t easily forget. It s only
4hrs walk in as well, what more
could you ask for.
Grade- Medium
Duration - Overnight
Mt Arrowsmith - This trip continues from where the last on left
off. Head up to the highest mountain in the Arrowsmith ranges, Mt
Arrowsmith (2700m+). Not for
the faint hearted. Intermediate
snow skill recommended. People
wanting to do this trip should be
able to look after themselves and
have good routefinding skills and
good snow skills. The views and
the feeling of getting to the top
(and getting down will stay with
you forever).
Grade - Mountaineering
Duration - Overnight
11 October
Meeting 6
Awards night and Party
To finish off a great year we re
having a bit of a party. We re also
going to hold our own tramping
club awards to celebrate the quirky
stupid and down right impressive
actions of our fellow club members. So if you think someone in
the club deserves an award make
sure you pass it on to Rene or
Clare, before the night. Hopefully,
we ll also get to drink all the beer
we have steadily earned through
the beer points scheme.
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14-15 October
Otehake Hot Pools —A nice trip
into these great hot pools will
make this trip definitely worthwhile. So come on take this weekend off to prepare for the up coming exams. The Otehake hot pools
are situated about 6hrs from the
road between Arthurs Pass and the
Westcoast.
Grade — Medium
Duration — Overnight
Otehake Hot Pools Take Two —
If you want to make the previous
trip a bit more challenging then
why not head to the pools via the
Pfeifer Tops. This will be a great
trip for those of you who love to
be adventurous. This trip involves
a bit of everything great views,
great company and great bush
bashing. J At the end of the day
you get to meet up with the other
group and swap stories.
Snowcraft 2000
Grade — Hard
Duration - Overnight
Holidays - If people have ideas on
what they want to do or where they
want to go give me a call on 3382497 or email me at
gch41@student.canterbury.ac.nz
Please get your ideas to me soon
that way I can let other people
know about the trips. Even if you
don t know whether you can go
but have this cool idea for a trip
let me know. Also I will try and
send around a sheet so people can
put their name and contact details
for over the holidays. That way
people can contact one another and
go away on trips still.
Greig Hamilton
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Bushball
2000!
For more pictures see the club web site gallery:
www.cutc.canterbury.ac.nz/gallery/
Please scan your pictures for the gallery too!
term 3
Kylie looks lovely on top of Mt. Bealey
Thousand Acre Plateau trip
The beautiful Heaphy track
trippers
Purple Peak trip
Hollyford Track trip
Cheaper than the
climbing wall
prime rule is don t shit near water
supplies, streams or rivers.)
footprints and photos
Fred de Zwart, Environmental Officer
Impress your fellow trampers, and
show them what a nice caring,
sharing person you are. Here are a
few pointers that friends have
given to me over the years, in an
effort to keep our parks in an untouched state.
1) Carry out what you carry in.
This one is the most important, but
simplest, rule of tramping, and it
is amazing how many people think
that a janitor comes along to clean
huts out. The only people that
clean huts are the people that stay
there, and if you enjoy rat infested
huts, then make sure you leave a
mess there. If you would rather
stay in a clean hut, make sure you
leave it like that for the next group
of weary trampers. Litter in the
bush stands out like a sore thumb.
If you can t be bothered carrying
out your chocolate bar wrapper, do
what I do, and stick it into someone else s pack. That way, you
don t have to carry it out, but it
isn t left in the bush. Don t put non
biodegradable rubbish into toilets.
This is especially true for alpine
huts. Toilets above the tree line are
generally too cold to allow microbial degradation of your shit, so it
has pumped onto a tank, and
helicoptered out. This is very expensive, and it means DoC has to
charge more for the huts. Plastic
bags, etc. clog up the pumps. You
have to feel sorry for the guys that
have to suck all that shit out of
those toilets, so don t make their
jobs any harder.
2) If there is a track, use it. Walk16
ing through the bush does damage
the forest, and it is visible. Don t
cut corners. Do not take this to
mean that you aren t allowed to
leave the track. Just use the track
if there is one. On this note, if you
come across a puddle in the middle of a track, do not make a new
track beside it. This will compress
the soil beside the puddle, and then
the puddle will become twice as
wide. The overall result of this is
a large puddle that spans three or
more metres, and it isn t nice. I
think, in most cases it is best to
walk straight through it. Of course,
don t be stupid. If the puddle is a
metre deep, then no one will complain if you walk around it. It does
make a good photo though!
3) How to shit in the bush: Simple
rules here. Make it so that no one
will ever know. Thus, don t leave
it on top, and don t leave it close
to a track, hut, tent site, or river.
Huts generally have a toilet. Use
it. If there isn t a toilet, dig a shallow hole, do the squat thing, clean
up, and bury the evidence. Spread
some leaves/ branches on top, so
that it doesn t look disturbed.
Make sure that you don t let your
tramping companions do their
deeds in the same place; that isn t
very good manners. Digging a hole
need not be difficult. Ice axes do
the job very efficiently (especially
if it isn t yours), but tent pegs,
sticks and billy lids are all suitable
digging implements. (Ed- Giardia
is a water-bourne gastrointestinal
parasite that is mainly caused by
contamination of drinking water
by human or animal faeces. So the
4) Dishes: This is very similar to
shitting. Do not wash dishes or tip
food straight in to our rivers. This
can contaminate the water if you
are sick, and it also gives those
nasty bugs more things to eat. Bad.
Best to get some water, carry it ten
metres from the river, and wash
your dishes there. Try to have the
water soak into the soil, so it can
be naturally filtered before it
makes its way to the river again.
Bury or carry out food wastes. As
was found out on bush ball, it isn t
a good idea to drain fat into the
sink. Fat solidifies when it cools
down, and effectively seals the
plumbing in huts. If this happens,
the way to fix it is to pour some
soap down, and lots of hot water.
But it is a dirty job.
5) Fire: Fire is your friend, but it
can also be your enemy. Treat it
with respect. Do not try fire breathing using your cooking fuel. It
hurts. If you can, use your cooker
instead of a fire. Cookers are
cleaner, quicker, and (generally) a
lot safer. If you must make a fire,
use common sense. Make it only
as big as it needs to be, make it
safe (don t start a bush fire) and
use dead wood, preferably from
river beds. Dead wood on the forest floor is an important part of the
ecosystem, so don t use it if possible. When you are finished, make
sure the fire is out, and completely
cold. Clean up, so that it doesn t
look like you ve been there.
Finally, have fun in the bush, but
make sure that others can get the
same enjoyment as you do.
CANTERBURY UNIVERSITY TRAMPING CLUB
NEWSLETTER 2000 NO. 4
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david bones cooks it up…
Yorkshire pudding
(Like gingerbread, keeps well on tramps.)
then add the egg and milk/beer, stirring to form a
thick batter.
2 cups flour
2 tsp ground ginger
1 cup oatmeal
100g butter
1 beaten egg
Line a 18cm x 28cm tin with buttered greaseproof
paper, pour in the mixture and bake for 45 to 55
minutes, until the cake is firm to the touch and has
begun to shrink away from the sides of the tin.
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp mixed spice
1 cup treacle
1/4 cup brown sugar
50ml milk or beer
Heat oven to 180 degrees celcius. Sift flour, soda and
spices into a large bowl. Stir in the oatmeal. Place
the treacle, butter and sugar in a saucepan over gentle heat, stirring frequently until the butter melts and
the sugar dissolves. Pour into the dry ingredients, and
50ml beer is about 5 dessert spoons or slightly less
than 1/4 cup. This leaves plenty to drink!
Happy baking,
David
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CANTERBURY UNIVERSITY TRAMPING CLUB
movational, emotivational
phil lamb, editor
As I write this, the rain is thundering
into the roof over my head, and
outside my window the cars are
gliding along past Hagley Park, their
lights cutting a swath through the
darkness. The phone this evening has
been a chorus of people complaining
talk about crap weather Trev! ,
Personally, I hope the rain sets in. I m
itching to go tramping.
Unless you ve seen storm clouds
snake up a lake valley, or listened to
night-time Kea screams through the
sound of rain on a tin hut roof, you
might not understand. Unless you ve
tramped feeling the muggy glow of
being soaked to the skin yet warmed
up and satisfyingly short of breath,
I m sure you wouldn t be keen to join
me. Until you ve tramped through
twelve hours of shit weather, and then
had sunlight swarm through the
clouds and set in the most spectacular
array of colour and shadow, you ll
probably be short on motivation to
place yourself out in it. But once you
have, you won t regret it for one
second.
Anathema to some, invitation to
others; to me, wilderness is a state of
Save our national parks,
crash a front-end loader today
NEWSLETTER 2000 NO. 4
mind, and its experienced harshness
purely a matter of physical
preparation. It always amuses me
when people talk about getting fit ,
because fitness is not an end in itself,
but a means to an end. A person is
either fit for a certain activity or
they re not, and just as there s no limit
to the types of activity a person can
be fit for, there s no limit to fitness.
There are plenty of members of this
club who test some of the feeble
mainstream notions about these limits
too.
One of these feeble mainstream
notions about fitness is currently
raising an ugly spectre over an area
that trampers and other wildness users
hold very dear, the Kahurangi
National Park, and particularly the
route followed by the Heaphy Track.
For those of you who haven t heard,
it has been proposed that as part of
the West Coast economic
development package, a road be built
from Karamea to Collingwood, right
through the heart of the National Park.
Arguments in favour of the road range
from muddle-headed to misguided
but one of the more insidious is based
around the (mis)observation that
without a road, access to the heart of
the park is restricted to a certain
portion of the population, the young
and fit. Quite apart from what the
thousands of trampers aged over 60
might have to say about that, I find
the application of such an argument
in support of a bloody road both
philosophically and morally
bankrupt. If we want more people to
have access to wilderness areas, the
answer is not to bulldoze a bloody
road through them; the answer is to
set the example and provide the
assistance to those people so they can
achieve this on their own terms.
That s the reason why this club, tens
of others like it and major bodies like
the Hillary Commission for Sport
exist. I urge all you with hands to
write to the editor of every publication
you can think of pushing this
message. Enough said.
This is the last CUTC newsletter for
the year 2000, but I don t want this to
have even the slightest sense of
finality to it, because from here on in
is really where the fun begins; we ve
got over three fat months of holiday
time ahead of us. There are only a few
more weeks of term left to make those
connections with the people in the
club whom you d like to be tramping
with over the holidays. I never feel
so on-top-of-the-world as when I ve
been studying hard-out for exams for
a few weeks and all that lies ahead is
the bush and the beach.
Its been a huge amount of fun talking
to you through these newsletters this
year, but I d much rather be out
tramping with you. Roll around midNovember I ll be heading off for a
legendary surf break I ve found on
Stewart Island that takes a three-day
tramp to get in to. Who s with me?
Come to the meetings and tell me
about your plans and maybe I ll see
you out there
Phil.
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CUTC committee members
For issues concerning the operation of the club and its activities, these are the people to contact!Note also
that some committee positions will need filling next year, so if you’re interested in being nominated for a
position at this years AGM, contact the relevant person(s) to find out what’s involved. Committee members get free food at committee meetings, free use of some of the club gear, as well as fame and the
adulation of hordes of adoring fans! (Okay I’m kidding a bit… the food isn’t totally free.)
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CUTC contact list September 2000
Updated with second semester details, here it is again for your convenience, the CUTC phone contact list
for 2000, provided as a convenience for base contacts, trip leaders, trippers and socialites. Owing to some
scaremongering about email spam, a committee edict was issued that email addresses not be published,
but Canterbury Uni student emails can be looked up via the varsity website (http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/
contact/emailadd/intro.htm), or you can email Stewart Hardie, srh33@student.canterbury.ac.nz if you
need the email address of a non-student.
Note also that you’ll miss out on your copy of the club’s end of year magazine, TROG, if the address details
that you supplied at the time you signed up for club membership have changed, so please (international
students especially) come to a meeting this term and check with a committee member that your details
are correct.
Lastly, plans are underway to form a holiday email list and web-based notice board so that you can keep in
touch with other club over the holidays, and plan trips, socials and generally nut around, regardless of
where abouts in the world you are. Details of how to subscribe to this will be emailed and announced at
meetings closer to the end of term, so keep your heads up. – PL.
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