Fosters Clearing/Mt Baldy. Organiser: Grahame Harris

This trip was wrongly graded as 2; it should have been 3, and consequently pushed one person harder than it should have. I apologise. The rest were a fine array of trampers who took it in their stride - thank you all for your patience and help. We defied the weather forecast for this trip, and it paid off with rain coming in 24 hours late, on our way out. With the 4-bunk hut being occupied by three people, there were several tents that were put away dry in the morning. The walk in to Devils Creek hut was easy, but then the climb up to point 1066 was quite a grunt, followed by a sidle where we lost height before regaining it again. The way out was an interesting sortie along an unmaintained track to Baldy, followed by an off-track section to rejoin the main track just before 1066 and the long climb down to the hut for lunch, then out.

Party: Arthur Jonas, Jim Maxwell, Mike Marren, Andy Clark, Cathy & Rowan Worthy, Sharan Foga, John Lammin, Mark Graesser, Kazumi Yamamoto, Grahame Harris (organiser).