Star Hill - Organiser: Gretchen Williams.

Very early in the morning - a check on Metvuw (rain later in the day) and a quick phone call to Roger Bruce (the tops of Star Hill and Patriarch were visible) - it’s on!

About 9.30am, regrouped at the Wash Bridge, through the locked gate and slightly swollen and very stony creek. Some were lucky enough to be in ‘real’ 4WDs so were transported right to Boulder Hut to await the others who warmed up over the extra 1.5 kms. The start of the track had been well marked by Waimea a few months earlier, only one wet bottom while crossing Boulder Creek, then a good steady climb for the next two hours (for the Grade 4-ers present) – a bit longer for the rest of us.

Lunch – huddled on the top out of the very cold easterly (even Skye had her coat on). Great 360 degree views, especially of the Red Hills.

Descent – very quick and back to the vehicles by about 3.30pm (which must be later in the day because that’s when it started to rain).

The group – David Blunt, Alison Nicoll, Margot & Peter Syms, Grahame Harris, Uta Purcell, Tony Haddon, Beverley Muirhead, Shirley Gabrielsen, Mark Stevens, Margaret Page, Dave Familton, Ruth & Skye Hesselyn, Dion & Barry Pont, Christine Hoy, Alison Pickford, Norm Lovelock, Noel File, Gretchen Williams.