MOUNTAINEERING

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22519, 29 September 1938, Page 15

MOUNTAINEERING

CANTERBURY CLUB’S ACTIVITIES HUT-BUILDING PROGRAMME Efforts to raise fund* to liquidate the debt el £32 on the Arthur’s Pass Hut, which will clear the way for a further but-building programme, are being made by the Canterbury Mountaineering and Tramping Club, according to the annual report. The report records that the use made by members of the Arthur’s Pass hut has justified it a hundredfold. Future plans include the erection of a bivouac in the Clyde river, a tributary of the Rangitata river, and the complete renovation of the Carrington Hut in the headwaters of the Waimakariri.

A wet summer and a particularly severe winter restricted the DUBWIP of trips throughout the year, end the openness of the glaciers ip the Mount Cook district, where many_ o* the club's more experienced climber* wen® their Christmas vacation, prevented many ascents of major peek* h«og accomplished. The Jester vacation way very wet and few trips ' W * V9 , out In spite of these set-backs there had been some excellent climbs an* expeditions, notably m the ArTPWsmith Range, where new route* were used on climbs of Jagged and Comote peaks, and in the Wstaroa river head- - waters. -