Organizer:
Evan M
Date/Time:
Date(s) - Saturday 13 August, 2022 - Sunday 14 August, 2022
All Day
climbing
Sean, Alisa and I will be leading an Ice Climbing / Mountaineering trip to Blue Lake so you can experience the euphoric thunk of an ice tool into a sick frozen waterfall.
^ from a trip last year
Rough plan is to leave Jindabyne at about 6am, aiming for guthega @ 7am. We’ll then skin/snowshoe out to our snow camping spot around twynam creet (with some practice in the arvo if we have time). Alpine start sun so we can head up to blue lake for a day of ice climbing, returning to jindy around 5pm.
Why is it a wed/thu? Because those are the days I have off guiding ????. I’ll hopefully run another one later in the season when I can get a weekend off.
We live in Jindy, so transport down will need to be organised by participants (you’d prob want to get here tue arvo and camp/stay the night before).
Expect a bit of suffering, because that’s mountaineering. It will be cold, you will probably be damp, you will be getting up early (before sunrise) and skinning/hiking with a heavy pack (20-25kg ish).
You will need the following gear (asterisk if you can borrow from the club, but we have limited supply):
– Mountaineering boots with heel welts for crampons (hire from Jindy, ~$60) OR AT ski boots
– Snow shoes OR touring gear (splitty/at skis) *
– Crampons *
– 4 season tent w/ snow pegs (if you don’t share you’re gonna carry more weight and be colder :P)
– Winter weight sleeping bag (-10 C comfort), or equivalent stacked sleeping bags and liners
– 4 season insulated sleeping mat (can stack an inflatable mat on top of a foam mat)
– Good sunnies and/or snow goggles
– Harness (padded, must own)
– Helmet *
– Hardshell pants & jacket (goretex or similar)
– Adequate thermals and insulating layers to layer under shells
– Snow gaiters (optional but recommended)
– Waterproof gloves & inners (ideally spare pairs)
– Head torch & spare batteries
– Food & cooking (make sure you have alpine gas ie jetboil/msr/etc 4 season mix)
– Water bottle (2l between bottles)
– Carry out toileting kit (e.g. Wag Bags & poo tube)
– GPS enabled phone & battery with maps downloaded (Gagia, OSM, etc)
– Hiking pack large enough to carry personal and group gear (20-25kg total, min 60L)
Please put in the signup info relevant trips you’ve been on (hard/long overnight hikes, camping in very cold/snow, snow experience). Please also mention the most suffering you’ve endured in the outdoors, but mainly because I want to make sure you actually read the whole thing.
Thanks,
Evan & Matt
