Happy New Year! I hope you have all had good weather to facilitate your summer holiday tramping adventures. Things are gradually getting back into routine at WTMC, although club nights often feel a bit quieter than usual in January. Paua Hut is now a brighter shade of green This past weekend a group of six … Read more
In October, we ran an incident simulation exercise to test out how the club’s incident management processes work in practice. Every time you go on a trip, the trip leader asks for your emergency contact details, and in return sends you the details of the club’s weekend emergency contact person. Most of the time (thankfully) … Read more
Woohoo! Summer is pretty much here and the warm weather with it (at least it feels like it this week anyway). I hope you have wonderful outdoor adventures planned for the Christmas break and have got your name down for some club trips in the new year to make the most of the warmer months’ … Read more
Spring is definitely here, along with all the trickiness of trying to plan tramping trips in very changeable weather. You might notice a few trip reports that start with “Plan A was…, but what we ended up doing was…” or that have a title like “Not Gunsight Pass”. Tash is always keen to receive trip … Read more
I’ve been away overseas for most of this month so this might be a short update. I learned on this trip that involvement in the Wellington tramping scene brings connections the world over. I sat down for dinner at YHA Grasmere in the English Lake District only to find that one of my dinner companions … Read more
August has seen the real snow arrive up at the WTMC Lodge and some very cold, wet and windy days which have hindered a few tramping trips more locally. The wintry conditions call for additional caution when planning but if you choose wisely, there are often some wonderful trips in among the weather if you … Read more
Ooops…I missed the newsletter deadline this month so hopefully a few of you still read this without the email prompt. Chilling out… We had a great talk by Dr Jenny Visser at club night last Wednesday about hypothermia mixing the medical science with the practicalities of being out in the hills with only what we … Read more
Welcome to my June update – there are some meaty topics in this one which might be useful discussion points for long journeys in the van or those times when you need to distract your trip-mates from your puffing and panting up a Tararua hill. Re-thinking the WTMC Journal The committee has recently been discussing … Read more
May always seems a weird month for outdoor activities. It has gotten dark and cold, but the snow has yet to arrive. For me that means I tend to spend it doing day adventures with lots of hills to prepare my legs for the upcoming alpine adventures. The multiple ‘Big Day Out’ trips on the … Read more
I’ve just returned from Easter at the WTMC Lodge. It was a great location for the long weekend and the weather allowed multiple activities. There were five small parties sharing the lodge with us and each had different activities planned which brought home once again what a superb facility our club lodge is. This weekend … Read more