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MOST RECENT ASCENTS |
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| Date |
Mountain |
Route |
Party
Name |
Party
Members |
Notes |
| 15/07/2018 | Mt Temple
 | Gully left of Left Buttress (possibly The Last Crusade) | PVT | Jamie Macalister, Kevin Peng, Camille Rousset | Deep powder on easier slopes but firm (although sometimes thin) alpine ice on steeper sections. Overcast day with some warming/melting in the afternoon but all in all, good day out. |
| 21/06/2018 | Lyell Peak
 | Avalanche Peak Track - Avalanche & Lyell Peaks - Scott's Track | Pawel Wawrzosek | Pawel Wawrzosek | Went along Avalanche Peak Track to summit, continued to Lyell Peak and back through Scott's Track. Clouds in the morning, cleared fully after 2-3 hours. Snow from bushline, first patchy, soon route fully covered with snow. Met some hikers in snickers, don't attempt without crampons and axe this time of year! |
| 10/03/2018 | Mt Temple
| Temple Col - Mt Temple - Phipp Peak & down west ridge to road | PVT | Daryll & Barbara Thomson & Murray Cullen | Sunny day & dry rock |
| 28/01/2018 | Mt Franklin
 | Oats/Franklin ridge | Jacob Downie | Ross li | Nice and sunny other than a quick thunderstorm while we wear near the summit. A cave provided great shelter as we waited for it to pass. No snow on any of the ridge except a small pocket near Oates. |
| 27/01/2018 | Mt Oates
 | South ridge from Edwards hut and Williams saddle | Jacob Downie | Ross li | Hot conditions. Dirty tarns on the ridge and no other water till lake Mavis. Load up in a creek heading up to the saddle. Wonderful scramble on good rock. Options for descent to lake Mavis. We took a scree couloir between low/high peak to the West face then sidled around to a notch in the West ridge. From here there was a well used scree slope down to the lake. |
| 21/01/2018 | Cow Peak
 | New Route on buttress left of "Greet the Sacred Cow" | Gibbins-Sowman | Ben Sowman, Jasmine Gibbins, Latham Gibbins & Ben Gibbins | We climbed a new rock route on Cow Peak at the head of the Anti-Crow River. We climbed the rock buttress left of the already established route "Greet the Sacred Cow". We started at the hoof of the buttress and climbed to a notch where it becomes steeper. From there we traversed left and scrambled to the summit. The route tops out about 50 meters south of the small, unnamed peak between Cow Peak and Gizeh Col. Crux grade about 12 (2+). We named the route "Gibbins-Sowman" |
| 27/12/2017 | One Shot Hill
 | Paratu Stream then scree slide into Paratu Stream | PVT | Daryll & Barbara Thomson | Less scrub bashing than we expected. |
| 02/12/2017 | Mt Philistine
 | Philistine Bluffs and eastern slopes | PVT | Mark Buckley | Soft snow from about 1600 metres |
| 01/12/2017 | Mt Byrne | From Harper Pass & ridge to the south towards Pt 1725 then west over open tops to Mt Byrne | PVT | Daryll & Barbara Thomson | Very straight forward route except for the alpine scrub up from Harper Pass |
| 14/11/2017 | Mt Row
 | Via Cherrywood Creek & then trees on true left of creek to Pt 1655 and then along the ridge to Mt Row | Daryll Thomson | Barbara Thomson | Can be difficult to exit from Cherrywood Creek. Best to stay in the trees from the first major fork in Cherrywood Creek |
| 10/11/2017 | Mt Rolleston - Low Peak
 | Otira Slide - Ski descent | PVT | Colin Kinison
Jason Watson | Really nice conditions with some sticky newish snow in places. 15cm unreactive slab on the upper slope. |
| 29/10/2017 | Mt Stewart
 | North Face from Crow River | PVT | Sarah Hamilton, Fraser Monteith & Lorraine Johns | Best not to rely on the guidebook information. About 85m from the stream draining from the basins below Guinevere, walk 200 vertical metres up to a bluff. Do not go to the climber's right as the guidebook suggests you can. It is doable but you will probably not want to go back down this way (and you may not enjoy going up it either). Go to the climber's left; however, do not take the route drawn in the guidebook (going most of the way up the scree gut), this would only lead to tears. At the 1240m contour there is a narrow wooded spur (just before you get to this thin spur, there is a wide scree gully with bluffs, and before this gully it is mainly trees. Go up this spur ... it's easy and it leads to easy ground. Also do not expect to climb the north-east ridge ... it is best to drop onto the north face and climb up to the east ridge just before it reaches the summit. A nice day out. |
| 28/10/2017 | Mt Lancelot
 | Crow Couloir Route | PVT | Sarah Hamilton, Fraser Monteith & Lorraine Johns | This is a nice route that is not mentioned in the guidebook. Essentially aim for the north ridge, and a few hundred metres down from the summit you will see a big snow slope (climber's left) leading toward the summit ridge (you can't miss it). A nice 1+ in good snow conditions ... very firm snow would be closer to a 2 with the slope being a uniform steepness. In summer this route might potentially be cut off ... in late spring we noticed two bridged crevasses. We were told the north ridge was also fine in snow (contrary to the information in the guidebook) but the couloir was in great condition so we went up and down it. |
| 04/08/2017 | Avalanche Peak
 | Rome ridge to Avalanche peak | Stuart White | Elliot Marshall | Quality Mountain Day!
Coral track onto Rome ridge, then traversed along ridge to avalanche peak before descending Scott's track.
Blue bird day, minimal wind, with shin deep snow. Crampons from bushline to bushline. |
| 19/07/2017 | Avalanche Peak
| Rome ridge to Avalanche Peak ridge traverse | Andy Muirhead-Smith | Alex Bewick | Coral track > Rome ridge > 1825m > ridge traverse to Avalanche Peak > Scotts track
Atmospheric weather
Knee to thigh deep crust, bit of a slog but fantastic views intermittently
Observed large slab avalanche on north side of Rome ridge |
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