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
One of my favourite pieces of poetry is a prose poem by the great 19th century French poet Charles Baudelaire called Get Drunk. In English translation it goes like this: Get Drunk! It is essential to be drunk all the time. That’s all: there’s no other problem. If you do not want to feel the … Read more
Grant Newton judged the club photo competition last Wednesday night – to a full house attendance. The results are below. Note these are very low resolution copies to save space on our server – but the high quality copies will be forwarded to FMC for inclusion in their nation-wide competition to be judged October. Winners … 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
WTMC have been contacted by the Membership Officer for Wellington LandSAR to ask if any of our members are interested in becoming volunteers. For more information about LandSAR see their website: http://www.landsarwellington.org/ The wait list closes on the 30th of April and applications close 10th May. More details can be found here at: https://www.facebook.com/LandsarWellington Any … Read more
In the brief fortnight of summer this year the family group went out for a couple of day walks to explore the rather foreign concept of warm sunshine. Hemi Matenga Reserve Sunday 26th February 2017 The Hemi Matenga reserve in Waikanae on was first up, and up it was, a good 400m climb between carpark … Read more
In order to overcome the issue of people signing up without being fully committed to trips (and hence putting keen/available people on the wait list), we have added and additional section to the back page of the sign-up sheet. This section is titled “Cannot Commit/Keep me Posted” and enables people to show an interest only. … Read more
The Club website currently runs on three applications, the main wtmc.org.nz site (Drupal), the newsletter site (WordPress) and the forum (Phorum). Three different applications multiply the volunteer learning time to use and maintain. With many people now using mobile devices to view our most popular pages (trip list and social night programme) the sites are … Read more
Did you know that WTMC has Paua Hut on the banks of the Orongorongo River in the Rimutaka Forest Park? And that the hut is available for private booking by members and non-members? Location Paua Hut is accessed from the Catchpool carpark approximately 45 minutes drive from Wellington. The hut is 2 – 3 hours easy walk from … Read more