Wellington Tramping and Mountaineering Club
enjoying the great outdoors since 1947
The Tramping Calendar Blues (or Rap) by Harry Smith (Best spoken aloud with a heavy 4/4 rap beat) (Apologies to everyone for this silly nonsense but Tony Gazley makes me do it every year). Oh God, it’s that time of the year When Tony Gazley’s calendar’s here And he has asked me to review it … Read more
2019 Photo Competition WTMC Winners and runners-up in the 2019 WTMC Photo Competition judged by Grant Newton. The photos were entered in the FMC national competition which this year attracted a record 565 photographs from 35 clubs and 31 individual supporters. Above bush edge with human element Winner: Syme Hut, Tony Gazley . Runner-up: Taranaki … Read more
The Wellington Tramping and Mountaineering Club Scholarship programme has been a huge success so far! The club has awarded 16 scholarships totalling almost $6000 for members to develop packrafting, mountaineering, skiing and canyoning skills. The funding came from hosting the Wellington screening of the New Zealand Mountain Film Festival (in partnership with the Victoria University … 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
The New Zealand Mountain Film Festival National Tour is coming back to Wellington with another double feature! The festival started in 2002 and is internationally recognised as one of the world’s premier mountain film festivals. It is New Zealand’s original mountain film festival with an international adventure film maker’s competition, as well as a highly … Read more
This trip was planned as a Medium trip to Mt Patriarch in Kahurangi NP…. but the week leading up to Queen’s Birthday weekend had rather a lot of rain so there was no way we were getting across the ford on the Wangapeka River Road. (The advice we had said not to even try crossing … Read more
March seems to have been a sunny month with lots of good weather for getting out on adventures – I hope everyone has been enjoying their fair share of these. March is also the last month in our WTMC year so I’d like to thank everyone who has given their time and energy to keep … Read more
We were contacted by Dan Clearwater, author of the Canyoning in NZ guidebook and staff member at FMC about some history of the early explorations of Chamberlain Creek. If you are able to help him out, please send him a message at . “Chamberlain Creek seems to be on the tip of everyone’s tongue when talking … Read more
Be aware. Consider … Environmentally Conscious Tramping brochure By Maj-Britt Engelhardt I’m passionate about tramping and nature (mountains, trees, flowers, birds, etc) but have struggled to find useful information to help me make better environmental decisions when tramping. At my 2018 club talk on Environmentally Conscious Tramping I realised others had the same problem when … Read more
As always things have been busy in the world of WTMC this month, particularly on the training front. Club members have variously attended first aid training, a pack-rafting safety course, canyoning abseiling basics and we’ve got river safety training coming up this weekend too. Many thanks to those involved with organising these training sessions and … Read more