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
The life cycle of a wilding pinus contorta in the Eyre Mountains 2016. Photos by Megan Sety. Now NZ wide only about 50 million to go!
The club member who loves to hate the Tararuas has provided annotations to the 2016 Tararua calendar photo as a guide for the perplexed. All the major peaks have been identified in the picture – and it’s no surprise that all seem to be correct. But take a look and make sure you agree. And just … Read more
Last weekend I went for a day walk into Mitre Flats. While there I took some photos, and while doing that I had to take off my black peaked cap as it is not easy looking through a camera viewfinder while wearing it. When I was back home that evening I realised my hat was missing. … Read more
On Saturday 16th April the alarm went off at 5 am. In darkness we drove to meet the team at Wellington train station at 6 am for the train to Waikanae. Here we met fellow trampers Jared, Mike and team leader Garth. Unfortunately, one member of the team slept through the alarm so our group … Read more
We’re getting excited about the 2016 Whakapapa snow season. The Ruapehu crew have secured a licence renewal with DOC, and so a flood of money is set to hit the Whakapapa facilities. This means a new quad express lift to replace the Centennial Chair this year, and a quad chairlift to replace the Waterfall T-bar in 2017. Good … Read more
Come along and listen to the stories of the best-of-the-best S-K runners. All have recently completed the S-K Main Range in under the magical 24 hours with Chris Swallow setting a record at under 20 hours (a bit of a speed merchant he also competes in Isle of Mann motorbike races). Don’t miss meeting and … Read more