Wellington Tramping and Mountaineering Club
Enjoying the great outdoors since 1947
Tena koutou fellow trampers. Big thanks to the Committee and the rest of the WTMC team for ensuring the Club ran smoothly while I was overseas. Actually it sounds like it may have run even better without me around. Perhaps I should go away more often. Special thanks also to Katy Glenie who has taken … Read more
Congratulations to Ian and Spencer whose photos received recognition in the 2012 FMC photo competition. Spencer’s photo taken near the WTMC Mountain House shelter in the Tararuas was the overall winning shot from the 224 entries! Keep those cameras snapping in preparedness for next club competition planned for early 2013. A big thank you to … Read more
As I write this in front of the fire on a Sunday morning (late again!), I’m thinking of Allen and Sue’s crew off in the Orongorongos. A cold night in Karori would have been even colder in the hills. But two weeks ago at North Ohau Hut, we were far from cold despite the ice … Read more
This time last year I wrote in the newsletter that the three areas the Committee would try to put a bit of extra effort into were membership acquisition, increasing Lodge usage and improving the website. Progress in each of these areas was touched on in the 2011 Annual Report. It is too early yet to … Read more
Next week we’re running an instruction day at the club rooms for people interested in leading trips. It’s cheering to have numbers well past the minimum threshold, when last year we had to cancel. We need a continual inflow of new leaders, with a proportion of existing leaders choosing to take time out every schedule … Read more
With this newsletter, you’ve received the Winter trip schedule. Thanks to everyone who’s committed to lead a trip – you play the most crucial role in the club. Only once you have lead a trip, do you appreciate the work that goes into it. And only then can you fully appreciate being a punter. I … Read more
Three cheers for everyone who showed up for the AGM, especially those who were brave enough to participate in the informal discussion on trips, vans and the club nights. We welcome feedback on anything to do with running the club so feel free to talk to a committee member on a Wednesday night or send … Read more
It’s nearly a new (tramping club) year, so time for some resolutions. Remember leaders’ forums? They are back, as of Wednesday 2 May. Meet at 6.45pm in the cafe above the Embassy to talk routes, meals and other trip leading intricacies. Feel free to come along to just chat about trip leading if you’re vaguely … Read more
In a few weeks we will hold our AGM. With this issue of the newsletter is a copy of the Annual Report and the Club Accounts. There are five topics we would like to get your feedback on at the AGM. I have highlighted them here for convenience and to get you thinking. Of course … Read more
The Wednesday before we left for our 12-day Fiordland epic, Sharron gave a slideshow on her Westland Christmas adventure. It looked hard. She said that there were times every day when she wished she wasn’t there. It was a comment my mind kept returning to as we journeyed through the Murchison Mountains, up the Doon, … Read more