Check, Clean, Dry your gear. Summer is in full swing! As the weather warms we often find ourselves spending more time in the great outdoors, visiting our favourite lakes or rivers. What you may not know, is that you could be transporting some unwanted hitchhikers on your travels from one waterway to another. Aquatic pest … 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
Jan Bolwell’s new play Taking the High Ground delves into the lives of two outstanding climbers. Freda du Faur, an Australian, was the first woman to scale Aoraki/Mount Cook in 1910. Lydia Bradey, a New Zealander, was the first woman to scale Mount Everest solo and without oxygen in 1988. Bolwell pushes the women together … Read more
Wellington Tramping and Mountaineering Club Inc. 70th Anniversary Celebrations!! Saturday 11 November 2017 Just a reminder that the Club is having its 70th Reunion on Saturday 11 November! We’ve received a large number of bookings already but there are still a few spaces left. Don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity to meet together and … Read more
We’ve had some exciting developments at our local climbing gyms in Wellington. Hangdog has opened a new bouldering area alongside the main gym. Check out their website for photos and details: www.hangdog.co.nz. Fergs Kayaks Wellington has completed an upgrade with a standalone boulder area separate from the lead room and top rope area. As Federated … Read more
The Wellington Tramping and Mountaineering Club (WTMC) is hosting a new members night on 25 October 2017 at the Tararua Tramping Club rooms (4 Moncrieff Street) and all are welcome. This is a chance to meet our members and find out what the club is all about. At 7pm, we’ll give you a quick run down … Read more
The best of the New Zealand Mountain Film Festival National Tour is coming back to Wellington and this time we have 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 mountain film festival with an international adventure film maker’s … Read more
You need to bake some stuff to prove it! Why? Cos we are not going to just take your word for it. We are sceptical by nature. There are great prizes to be won. The title of WTMC’s Hottest Home Baker – think of the honour and the glory. Nobody can take that away from … Read more
The next WTMC New Trampers Night is 11 Feb – at the usual time (from 7:30pm) and the usual place (Tararua Hall, Moncrieff St, Mt Vic). We need you to come along – it doesn’t matter if you are new to the club, if you have only been with us a short while, or if you are … Read more
