WTMC 75th Anniversary – Banquet, Paua Hut Trip and Catchpool BBQ/Picnic

Join us in celebrating 75 years of Wellington Tramping and Mountaineering Club on the 4th – 6th November. Come gather, share adventures of the outdoors and have some fun.  We have three events for you to choose from: Banquet at Little India Blair Street Friday 4th November Paua Hut Trip Saturday 5th to Sunday 6th … Read more

2022 Best of the New Zealand Mountain Film Festival National Tour coming to Wellington

Mountaineer climbing on snow

The best of the New Zealand Mountain Film Festival National Tour is once again coming back to Wellington with a double feature! We’ll be screening the best of the festival for both NZ made and international films. The festival started in 2002 and is internationally recognised as one of the world’s premier mountain film festival … Read more

Committee Activity: September 2021

Greetings Readers, it’s National Lockdown 2 and your humble Newsletter Editor finds himself a bit bored and with (unsurprisingly) few trip reports coming in. What to do? I decided to canvass your committee about their lockdown exploits and to summarise them here. Interestingly, between us we’ve managed to photograph Wellington from almost every angle Maj-Britt, … Read more

From the Editor, July 2021

Greetings, Readers. It is I, the Newsletter Editor, coming to you with information and requests The Request Please keep sending me trip reports! Without trip reports to publish I would have to find a job or something to occupy my time with, or worse, I’ll start making up my own trip reports and then you’ll … Read more

Flying Bed Story

So you think skiing at Ruapehu is a bit of a hassle. A lengthy drive to the WTMC Lodge, sharing bunkrooms with noisy (or not noisy enough) others, cooking, cleaning and the other odd jobs that are actually just part of lodge life are all too much for you? Well, if so, then you don’t … Read more

2021 Best of the New Zealand Mountain Film Festival National Tour coming to Wellington – CANCELLED

Mountaineering on K2

Sadly, due to covid L2 restrictions this event has been cancelled The best of the New Zealand Mountain Film Festival National Tour is once again coming back to Wellington with a double feature! The festival started in 2002 and is internationally recognised as one of the world’s premier mountain film festival events. It’s NZ’s original … Read more

Mitre Flats – a little gem

Mitre Flats Hut

Mitre Flats – a little gem A guide to hikers wanting to visit Mitre Flats in the Tararua – with descriptions of the track and hut. Some people don’t like the track into Mitre Flats. It’s named on maps as the Barra Track after the bushman that first cut it and it does seem to … Read more

Book review: “The Eight Mountains” Paolo Cognetti

Whilst I enjoy spending my weekends in the out-of-doors, I sometimes prefer travel from the comfort of my sofa. I love to read a book that takes me on an adventure. Last month I read ‘The Eight Mountains’ by Paolo Cognetti. I thought some of you might appreciate a review. The book starts out with … Read more

Randonée in the Ruahines

Many trampers choose to take on a challenge to give their tramping adventures a purpose. Te Araroa trail hikers are one example, Kuldeep Nandurkar, who is bagging 900 huts in 900 days, is another. Even amongst our own club members we have some ambitious hut-baggers and long-distance adventurers. Maarten Ruiter is one of them. Earlier … Read more