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
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. An agenda will be sent with a second notification before the 16 March 2018. Note the AGM will be 30 minutes maximum and followed … Read more
It’s time again to update the WTMC cookbook. The cookbook has 83 recipes in it including all the favourite tramping dinner meals AND desserts, snacks, dehydrated meals and the famous Tararua Biscuits! It’s ready for an update. We want your recipes and your corrections. You can view a PDF or word version of the cookbook … Read more
For those who want to do more talking about tramping than tramping! A social walk around Wellington. No sign-up required, just join or leave the route when you wish. Contact Mike Gilbert with any questions. Planned arrival times are: 12:00pm Garage Project, Aro Valley(Fitness Essential) 1:30pm – Kelburn Village Pub (Fit) 3:00pm Sprig and Fern, … Read more
The Service is a volunteer, non-profit organisation dedicated to providing radio communications in remote areas where no other forms of communication is available. It was set up by trampers for trampers and others. The service urgently needs a volunteer to assist with bookings and handling radios in the Wellington city area. Tramping experience is very … Read more
At our usual club night on 8 November 2017, WTMC celebrated its 70th birthday. Volunteers had put together some excellent photo boards with photos of club members out in the hills from the last seven decades. Illona bought along some old-fashioned tramping gear for us to marvel at, including the “kidney crusher” and the “mountain … Read more
You might have noticed we’ve been gradually migrating information from the old WTMC website to this flash new one. The latest information to be moved are the WTMC policies. These policies are our guiding stars for running the club safely, fairly and efficiently. They are written with WTMC’s core purpose of enjoying the outdoors at … Read more
As club members are beginning to explore canyoning, we’re keen to support members to develop the skills we need to get in and out of canyons safely. We’ll be organising a 1-day introduction to canyoning 101. This session will cover canyoning safety, rope management skills and abseiling. The session will give you a good introduction … 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
