The club hosted 80 curlers from around the South at its Curling at Altitude event, at the Southern Hemisphere Proving Ground, on the Pisa Range, on Sunday.
Club secretary Roger Gardiner yesterday told the Otago Daily Times for many curlers at the event, it was their only outing on natural ice this winter because of milder Otago temperatures.
He said, the event was made possible by the proving ground squeezing the club into the end of its very busy schedule of testing cars and tyres on ice and snow.
Mr Gardiner said curling on natural ice was'' a bit special''.
The club had a venue lower in the Cardrona Valley, at Branch Creek, but cloud reduced the number of hard frosts there, and the lack of ice had mostly prevented play. A curler had broken through the ice on one occasion.
Mr Gardiner believed the general area of the proving ground offered the best hope for the valley's curling future.
``Long term, what we need to try and do is come up with somewhere where we can put some refrigeration in. What we like, if we can, is an ice rink and a little club house.''
