11th of September is sounding good for us too.
Snow chains are $300 a pair and the only place in Newcastle I can get 'em is a bloody ski shop. You'd think these guys have never seen snow. Well, ok, so we haven't, but that shouldn't stop 'em. Anyway, we may not need 'em - September ought to be warming a little, so Polblue should be free of ice and snow.
We're going to get some of those thin beef sausages and some plain white bread so we can have sausage sangas. We'll bring tomato & BBQ sauce, water, milk, Nescafe coffee, English Breakfast tea, sugar, splenda (for any diabetics), ordinary and diet soft drinks.
We'll have one of those butane-powered cooking stoves but will probably have our charcoal-fuelled BBQ as well in case we've got time to set up and cook the sausages the right way.