About
The Newcastle University Mountaineering Club is an outdoor adventure club at Newcastle University, Australia. We organise trips for members across a wide selection of activities.
General Club Info
Use of the NUMC email group
All members can use the club’s mailing list to give notice of spontaneous outdoors adventures and social events. Remember your email reaches hundreds of people - use it wisely, if it is not urgent use the forum instead. To join the mailing list just send a blank email to numc-subscribe@nusa.org.au and then click on the link in the reply email.
For most information use the Forum, there are specific topics on club trips, gear, Watson, committee details and so on. The forum can be used to advertise things that would be of interest to members e.g. items for sale (outdoors gear, furniture), rooms for rent and sale days at outdoors stores. To share photos, add as an attachment on the forum.
Equipment Hire
Equipment hire is available from the club gear store,
under the Forum, Tuesdays and Fridays between 5.30pm - 6.30 pm. (Limited dates during holidays)
At the gear store you are able to hire a range of general outdoors equipment for use when going on club trips, or if available, for your own trips. Most of these are charged at poor student rates, e.g. a 2 person tent: $10 per week, sleeping bag: $6 per week. Equipment requires a $5 or $10 deposit. Equipment list.
Trip Costs
The only costs when going on club trips are petrol and any gear you may need to hire. The trip leaders will tell you how much a trip should cost. We request that members also donate $1 per club trip to our ‘Goodwill Fund’. This fund assists those members whose vehicles are damaged on club trips when the driver is not at fault.
Indoor rock climbing
During semester, the Forum climbing gym is booked for the use of Mountaineering Club members for ‘subsidised’ indoor rock climbing.
Climbing times:
Tuesdays 5:30-8.30pm
Fridays 3.30-5.30pm
Before climbing, an introductory course must be completed. Ask Forum staff for details.
Also please note that due to fee increases, there will now be a cost of $2.00 per climbing session for club members.
Affiliation with external bodies
To help members of NUSport compete in sports run by external bodies, NUSport is willing to subsidise costs. If you pay registration fees, or pay for licences to join external bodies, for example: Mountain biking Australia or NSW Rogaining, NUSport will subsidise 80% up to a maximum of $90 for students, $75 for Newcastle University graduates and staff, and $60 for other external members.
Trip Safety
Trip Forms
Before going on a trip it is recommended you leave
details of your intended adventures should you need to be rescued. This includes details of the group members, destination and estimated return time. Forms available in the gear store.
Training Subsidies
A limited number of training subsidies (max $500/person/year) are available for members who wish to develop skills that will benefit the club. Training which has been subsidised in the past includes senior first aid, remote area first aid and rock skills courses. Preference for the subsidies is given to members who are likely to share the skills learnt through ongoing involvement in club activities. Contact the safety officer or a committee member for further information.
WANTED: TRIP LEADERS – you only need to have some organisational skills and some experience in what you are about to embark on. This is a volunteer club, so the only way that trips happen is if someone volunteers to run them. That could be anything – a ride to sugarloaf, a pub crawl, a horse ride, swim at the beach, walk around a headland, pogo-sticking down the Hunter Street Mall. If there is something you want to do and want some company – Post on the forum.
Club Contacts
Organising Committee
President: Andrew Godwin 0422 287 236
agodwin444@hotmail.com
Vice President: Gerd Deiter 0422 397 793
Treasurer: Bev Brown 0419 675 044
beverly.brown@studentmail.newcastle.edu.au
Secretary: Kerry Burke 0406 320 216
kerry.burke@studentmail.newcastle.edu.au
Gearstore: Andrew King 0422 017 288
a_king@westnet.com.au
IT Officer: Corey Wilson 0422233203
wilson.corey@hotmail.com
Media Officer: Kristofer Gesling, Mathew Bunn
Levels Co-ordinator: Peter Kuczera 0411 238 572
peterkuczera86@gmail.com
Safety Officer: Peter Kuczera 0411 238 572
peterkuczera86@gmail.com
Activity Contacts.
Climbing: Andrew King 0422 017 288
a_king@westnet.com.au
Bushwalking: Andrew Morris 0466 587 323
Canyoning: to be announced
Rogaining: to be announced
Snow Sports: Peter Kuczera 0411 238 572
peterkuczera86@gmail.com
Water Sports: Michael Norris 0403 554 339
Caving: Andrew Godwin 0422 287 236
agodwin444@hotmail.com
Mountain Biking: Michael Norris 0403 554 339
Social: Kerry Burke 0406 320 216
kerry.burke@studentmail.newcastle.edu.au
Activities
Alpine
Cycle
Hiking
Rock
Social
Water
Alpine
Cross Country Skiing
Downhill Skiing/Snowboarding
Save money, get group discounts.
Mountaineering
Infrequent trips to New Zealand to climb mountains. 22 days in one pair of underpants. Awesome.
Cycle
Cycle Touring
Some people ride down the beach, some around the country.
Cycle Rogaining
Follow a map, on a bike.
Mountain Biking
Hiking
Adventure Racing
Multi hour to multi day team footraces navigating through the bush.
Bushwalking
There is nothing more relaxing than walking through the bush and admiring the wilderness.. The NUMC runs walking trips for all people from the complete novice to the more experienced walker. You don’t have to be fit, just bring along your enthusiasm.Trips can vary from a single day walk to a couple of days, extending to a week or more.
The places we go to are quite varied but always very beautiful. We regularly visit the Barrington tops, Blue Mountains, Snowy Mountains and Wollemi National Park.
Mt Royal.
Rogaine/Orienteering
Shorter version of an Adventure race.
Rock
Bouldering
Short hard climbing problems. No rope, just mats.
Canyoning
Canyoning is the perfect summertime activity. It combines all the elements of other outdoors activities, and allows you access to remote areas of wondrous nature.
In an average canyoning trip, you navigate to the start of a canyon in the cool of the morning, often bushwalking along ridges allowing you great views of misty valleys you will soon descend into. Via a series of gullies and waterways, you make your way into the canyon.
Sometimes there are sections you can't scramble down, so with a handline or abseil make your way through the watercourse. The canyons are sometimes less than a metre wide, with up to 40m sheer sandstone walls rising up above you.
Caving
Easy walk in caves or abseil into the dark on epic adventures into the depths.
Climbing
Toperope in the gym. The learn to lead sport outside. Trad lead 300m faces. Climb mountains. Easy.
We run beginners day trips at the start of each semester to teach basic abseiling and climbing skills. These skills are built on as semester goes on, with trips to the Blue Mountains, Warrumbungles, Nowra....
Social
Paintball, Pubcrawl, Party. Anything you want to do youll find someone to do it with.
Water
NUMC has whitewater kayaks, sea kayaks, canoes, life jackets, everything you need.
Splash around the harbour.
Fast and Furious Whitewater.
