Chockstone Forum

      Sponsored By
      ROCK
   HARDWARE

Chockstone Photography

Australian Landscape Prints

Chockstone Forum - General Discussion

General Climbing Discussion

Topic Date User

Mountaineering Courses. 3-Nov-2008 At 10:46:28 PM miss crag

Message

i found the walk out challenging but a great gauge for what i needed to work on to spend more time in
the mountains.

my prominent memories - i'd changed from hired plastics to leathers before we flew in (smart move).
take note fellow course newbies - tape those feet like a mummy if you're hiring boots! also had some
pea soup conditions about an hour after we left so that was interesting. the worst bits were getting
down the moraine wall, nice fat boulders you'd put your foot on and wallah - unstable! and the next
one! and the next one! hurry up coordination! faster! not what i'd class as 'fun' at the time, definitely
wasn't my strong point and i just wanted to be back on the 'oh so stable snow'!

obviously i've not walked in to plateau but i think i'd much rather going up then down :)

oh, and walking across looking back up the hochstetter was just awesome. stunning.

hope your conditions this summer are better than our's last december.