Come and hear Richard House talk about his experience walking the South Island section of Te Araroa, and how he beat the lockdown! From Richard: "Over 73 days Jan-Mar 2020, I covered the 1,300 km of the South Island Te Araroa Trail. I got home a day before the covid level 4 lockdown started. In ... Read more
Shaun Hendy will talk to the Club about what he learnt from a going a year without flights. "By avoiding planes for a year, I found that I had cut my carbon dioxide emissions from travel to just over 1 tonne. This was a reduction of 95 per cent from my 2017 carbon footprint from ... Read more
Please join us tonight, Wednesday 19 August, at 7:30pm for another virtual club talk. Tash will talk about the do's and don'ts of leading your first WTMC trip! You can attend the talk remotely via 'Google Hangouts'. This means you can join from your computer, your smartphone or even from your less smart phone. Computer or ... Read more
Covid-19 cannot stop the WTMC Photo Competition! It will be going ahead ONLINE via Google Hangouts at 7.30pm on Wednesday 2 September 2020. This means you can get yourself a cup of tea, sit back, and enjoy club members' best photos beamed into your living room! The judge this year will be Grant Newton again ... Read more
Come and hear Jenny Visser talk about everything you need to know about a common danger for trampers - hypothermia.
Come and here club member Juan talk about his experiences on Aotea/Great Barrier Island.
The Canterbury High Country is a spectacular and little known region of rolling tussock ranges, rugged mountains, steep scree slopes, huge braided river valleys, towering snowy peaks, hidden lakes, and historic old musterers' huts. Most of this area was formerly made up of high country sheep stations, but much of it now forms part of ... Read more
Our Social Convenor will talk about an experience of concussion, and how to treat it.
Sioned Cox went to Nepal in 2012 to walk the Annapurna Circuit over a period of around 3 weeks. She will give a talk about the amazing sights she saw and the wonderful people she met on the way.
Come and hear our Vice-President Tony Stephens talk about the kinds of adventures you can have from the Club's Paua Hut in the Orongorongo Valley.