November 11th Club Night

We reversed our usual order to have our speaker Tony Woods first speaking on Land SAR in N. O.; hoping to form closer links with us.

Tony spoke about the people needed to make this venture will all its gear successful. As a core they want 4 groups of 4 people, all trained. Ideally having 30 trained would provide succession.

Skills required are: navigational, to cope with land bush line and below along with their own personal equipment, searching methods, tracking clues plus first aid qualifications. This would be backed up with their monthly training sessions.

As usual today, a lot of paper work is involved, including the debriefing after the event..

We looked through their $150,000 truck specifically built for our local scene. The design, outlay, gear and equipment –especially the electronics was most impressive.

Thanks Tony and Jeremy – hopefully we can be helpers rather than recipients!

Club notices followed – with important information re our new Locator Beacon, it is now required  that one is on each outing for both the Club and Wednesday Walkers.

Reports were given on the last months outings:

Club Trips: 20^th Oct Mt Kyeburn with 1 party going straight up a ridge while another took the 4WD track. The Labour Weekend 4 day bike ride was postponed because of gales and snow blizzards in the area. Nov 10^th 16 people enjoyed an easier excursion on McCone’s farm ending with a tour of Bronwyn’s fabulous garden.

The Wednesday walkers went up Mt Miserable and Prominent Peak on Oct 16^th; Wainono Lagoon and Gunns Bush on Oct 23^rd; Mt Kyeburn up another new ridge plus the track on 30^th Oct; and Deep Stream on N side of Aviemore on Nov 6^th.

As our next meeting is not until February a large number of exciting upcoming events were laid out  to us including our Christmas Party on Dec7th. Information on these can be found on our excellent website: http://www.notmc.org.nz.

Jane