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The A Frame and Ruapehu Huts
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Alpine Sports Club Inc. Skiing and Facilities at Mt Ruapehu
Alpine Sports Club has two ski lodges on Mt Ruapehu. The club first constructed the smaller Ruapehu Hut on a prominent ridge overlooking the Top of the Bruce in 1950 with extensions added in 1956, 1962 and 1976. The original hut slept 12 people in a single room. The modern hut sleeps 20 and has full modern facilities including hot showers and electric heating. The Ruapehu Hut is used to accommodate the club's Mountain craft courses and to accommodate the additional demand during organised club activity weekends including ski instruction, mountain craft instruction, sports weekends and social activities.
The Ruapehu Hut may be rented for weekend and mid week to schools and approved groups for ski and mountain craft activities.
In 1964, Alpine Sports Club built the A Frame Lodge 50 metres further up the ridge from the Ruapehu Hut. Much larger and with modern facilities the A Frame Lodge has been the mainstay of Alpine Sports Clubs Ski activities on the mountain. The A Frame Lodge was extensively upgraded in 1996 to provide improved bunk rooms and an improved dining and social facility. Both lodges comply with all accommodation and safety regulations applying to the mountain.
The A Frame Lodge is available to club members and their guests for normal ski activities and organised club weekends. The A Frame Lodge is also an excellent base for tramping and climbing in the Tongariro National Park outside of the ski season and during the summer holidays.
Accommodation at the huts is available through an internet booking system (see the link further down the page). There is a late booking and cancellation system available to members during specified times. Food is provided for breakfast and dinner and members must bring their own fresh bread and some specified vegetables. Hut duties are rostered, including the cooking. Mattresses, pillows and some duvets are provided but guests are required to bring their own sleeping bag and pillow case
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Ruapehu News (Updated 19 Sep 2008)
Hut Booking Officer Ray has handed over the job of bookings officer after 5 years of sterling service. The new booking officer is Kerry Bromell. She can be contacted by email on bookings@alpinesport.org.nz and phone at (09) 263-8689 but make sure you ring before 9pm. Thanks to Ray for all the hard work he put in. Ray has the distinction of having established an internet booking system without knowing anything about it himself.
The hut wardens for the 2008 season are Daniel Ammann and Tabea Schurch from Switzerland. They are both ski/snow board instructors with RAL They arrived on the 20th June and are now resident in the A Frame.
Ski Instruction and Theme Weekends Roy and Lynne have kindly agreed to run these instruction weekends again this year. The dates and themes are: 26th-27th July - Ski Instruction One. Theme party Saturday night - Country Rock 2nd-3rd August Ski Instruction Two. Theme party Saturday night - Japanese
Mountaincraft weekends Weekend 1 2nd-3rd August Weekend 2 30th-31st August Weekend 3 27th-28th September
Hut Bookings system You can and you should book on line and you can pay by internet banking direct to the club bank account. Check the bookings page for the changes.
You can get your password for the booking system by contacting the booking officer on bookings@alpinesport.org.nz or by ringing her. Details in the club magazine and the club handbook as well as the bookings information page. Remember that it takes time to load new comers and late payers into the system.
Summer rates & Bookings The committee has struck new rates for the use of the hut during summer and also for the 2008 winter season. These rates can be viewed below.
Summer bookings should be made through the bookings site as usual but it is probably also a good idea to let the booking officer know because she is probably not looking at the website very often during the summer.
For bookings, Contact the Ruapehu Hut Officer on 09-263-8689.
The hut phone number is 07-892-3710
Parking Parking at the top of the Bruce has been revised. A parking layout can be downloaded by clicking parkinglayout
Snow Conditions Use the link at mtruapehu.com for snow conditions and weather at Ruapehu [Snowreports] For country wide weather and snow conditions go to the link page and look for snow.co.nz
Weather Forecasting You can check out the long range weather situation on the synoptic analysis link on the forecasts page. For a brief short forecast check out the RAL website and snow cams on the Forecasts link page. These show the weather situation across Australia and New Zealand, you can see what's coming. Also remember that you can get 5 to 7 day predictions from the MET service website and from METVUW (see the weather page for details).
The Metservice have a new 3 &7 day rain (& wind) forecast map that uses the same dataset as Metvuw but is much easier to use. You can select likely fine days to book in for a midweek ski. See the weather page for details.
If you have any problems or want to report a fault please contact Elaine Spring-Rice or Graham Wadams or through the club email address. Complaints about the booking system should be made in writing and posted in the nearest rubbish bin.
OUTSIDE GROUPS HUT BOOKINGS If you are a group who would like to make a booking for the Ruapehu Hut, for summer or winter, then please contact the Ruapehu Booking Officer on 09-263-8689 or email her on bookings@alpinesport.org.nz.
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Ruapehu Lodge Rates (2008-2009) These rates may be subject to change without notice.
To download the schedule of hut fees for 2008 in pdf format click here: [ Hut Fees 2008 ]
2008 Season Discount Pass Rates are shown on the schedule of hut fees. Offer ended 31st May 2008
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Alpine Sports Club inc. P.O. Box 131, Auckland 1140, New Zealand. email email@alpinesport.org.nz
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