Organizer:
Evan M
Date/Time:
Date(s) - Wednesday 31 July, 2024 - Thursday 01 August, 2024
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 creek. If enegry/conditions permit, we’ll try to climb that arvo. 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, will 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.
Evan, Sean & Alisa.
