Labour Day weekend has been and gone and we’ve got longer and longer daylight hours – this is my favourite time of year for tramping! Judging by the many names on the trip sign-up sheets you are also all getting out into the hills with less wear-and-tear on those head-torch batteries needed now. If you’ve … Read more
First Aid Training – Sign up now! WTMC is organising first aid training for club members in the first weekend of November. The training will be run by St John and involve practical first aid scenarios for trampers. The committee believes that it is important to provide training opportunities for members and has agreed that … Read more
Spring is almost here…but there’s still plenty of snow adventures to be had in between planning for summer trips. Here’s a few updates about what’s been going on around WTMC in August. Want help to gain experience and skills to further your tramping adventures? We now have ‘Experience’ and ‘Instruction’ scholarships available to members! … Read more
Snowcraft has characterised July for me. We’ve had twenty keen members learning how to travel on snow with and without sharp metal tools (ice axes and crampons) for two of the four July weekends. Thanks to the WTMC Lodge for hosting us and to everyone involved with organising or participating in this course. I’m looking … Read more
Winter has rolled around but no one at WTMC seems to be hibernating. We’ve had great turn outs for Wednesday night club talks recently, and plenty of trips still heading out every weekend. All About Alpine Winter means the alpine-inclined amongst us start to get into action. During July Henry is running a sold-out … Read more
Introducing the 18/19 WTMC Committee The new committee is now fully-formed following the April AGM. Heather joins us as Secretary, Sumudu as Comms Officer and Tony S as Social Convenor. All three have already made their mark with their contributions so far. Huge thanks Kirsty, Caryl and Catherine for all their hard work on the … Read more
WTMC Annual General Meeting (AGM) We are pleased to invite all club members to the AGM of the WTMC to be held on Wednesday 4 April, 2018, at the TTC Hall at 7:30 pm. The agenda is available here (scroll right to the bottom of the page to find it) and here’s the Annual Report. Note the AGM will … Read more
We’re looking for new committee members to help run WTMC! Several current committee members will be stepping down in April having played their part in helping WTMC to run like clockwork over the past year – thanks everyone! We’re looking for members who are keen to help out running the club by taking on one … Read more
Great news – we’ve been granted $20,000 from the DOC Community Fund to intensify our trapping efforts in the Western Ruahines. Our goal is to put an A24 trap next to every DOC200 trap in the lines managed by WTMC, Lisa & Geoff Whittle and the Awarua Aorangi Trust. The $20K we’ve been granted will help … Read more
We’ve had an exciting year managing our Eastern Ruahines trap line. Not only have we fulfilled our target of checking the line every month but we’ve also added a new section of self-resetting traps down an untracked ridge, where we found evidence of kiwi. Since it was installed in March 2015, WTMC has been taking … Read more