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AVALANCHE COURSE – WELLINGTON
The Mountain Safety Council is putting on an Avalanche Awareness Training lecture, here in Wellington!
Date and place: July 19th, (Tuesday) at 7:30pm sharp, Science House, 11 Turnbull Street (off Murphy Street opposite the Thorndon New World Supermarket). Lasting about 2.5 hours.
Attending an evening lecture is a prerequisite for going on their field day weekend sessions in the snow. So if you are planning on going to any of the Mountain Safety Avalanche Courses this year at Ruapehu, and can’t make the evening lectures at Ohakune, then you can attend this ONE in Wellington instead. Check out http://www.mountainsafety.org.nz for their course dates.
Cost: only $5 at the door – (for this, you get tea and bikkies and an internationally respected snow expert to talk to you!)
There is some parking around the building, or on Murphy Street, but don’t use the Wilson Carpark unless you want to be towed. For more location information go online to: http://www.rsnz.org/directory/location/ or look on your Wellington map for the US Embassy – Science House is the big blue building on the next street down. Thanks to the Royal Society of NZ for providing the venue (they recognise that studying snow crystals is a Science, but we know picking safe terrain on snow is an Art.) Come along and learn the art! Please support this initiative, as we want the MSC to provide this informative opportunity to us city-folk every year!
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