WTMC Talks: Reducing your environmental impact
2020-07-15 19:30 - 20:30 (Pacific/Auckland) | TTC Hall – WTMC Gear room, 4 Moncrieff Street, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
The WTMC Environmental Sub-Committee presents: Fiona Millington on reducing your environmental impact!
Come and here Fiona talk about topic slike the journey to going plastic/rubbish free, food choices/shopping, low impact travel, clothing options, community project ideas etc. Be inspired to make a small change in your own life to reduce your impact on the environment!

Lodge leaders training
2020-07-22 18:00 - 19:00 | TTC Hall – WTMC Gear room, 4 Moncrieff Street, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

WTMC Talks: the Kaweka Kaimanawa Traverse
2020-07-22 19:00 - 20:30 | TTC Hall – WTMC Gear room, 4 Moncrieff Street, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Our members Ian and Emily will talk about a 6 day crossing of the Kaweka and Kaimanawa Forest Parks in October 2019.

Lodge subcommittee monthly meeting
2020-07-29 17:30 - 18:45, 2020-08-26 17:30 - 18:45, 2020-09-30 17:30 - 18:45, 2020-10-28 17:30 - 18:45, 2020-11-25 17:30 - 18:45 | TTC Hall – WTMC Gear room, 4 Moncrieff Street, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
The WTMC Lodge subcommittee meets monthly on the last Wednesday of the month.
Meeting are held in the gear room. Entrance is by the side door of the TTC Hall.
If you are interested attending, please contact the Lodge Convenor first at lodgeconvenor@gmail.com.

WTMC Talks: South Island TA Trail - a walk into Covid
2020-07-29 19:00 - 20:30 | TTC Hall – WTMC Gear room, 4 Moncrieff Street, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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 this presentation I will describe how I planned it and give you some idea of what’s involved with photos and tips. It’s easier than you imagine!”

WTMC Committee Meeting
2020-08-05 17:45 - 18:45, 2020-09-02 17:45 - 18:45, 2020-10-07 17:45 - 18:45, 2020-11-04 17:45 - 18:45, 2020-12-02 17:45 - 18:45 | TTC Hall – WTMC Gear room, 4 Moncrieff Street, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
The WTMC Committee meet on the first Wednesday of the month.
Please contact president@wtmc.org.nz in advance if you wish to attend.

WTMC Talks: NoFly - Shaun Hendy talks about his year without flights
2020-08-05 19:30 - 20:30 | TTC Hall – WTMC Gear room, 4 Moncrieff Street, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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 travel. It felt good.”
What happens when a leading New Zealand scientist (and frequent traveller) rules out flying for a year? From overnight buses to epic train journeys, Shaun Hendy’s experiences speak to our desire to do something – anything – in the face of growing climate anxiety.
#NoFly confronts the hard questions of one person’s attempt ‘to adapt’. Was this initiative merely symbolic? Did it compromise his work, his life? And has it left him feeling more optimistic that we can, indeed, reach a low-emissions future?
#NoFly Walking the Talk – info sheet 7 October 2019 copy

VIRTUAL TALK: Leading your first WTMC Trip!
2020-08-19 19:30 - 20:30 | TTC Hall – WTMC Gear room, 4 Moncrieff Street, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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 smartphone are best. Instructions for how to join the talk are set out below.

How to join:

From your computer:

Follow this link from 7:25pm on Wednesday ->

meet.google.com/hfo-aiah-sqo

You may be prompted to allow your microphone and camera to be used.

Then click ‘Ask to join’

From your smartphone:

Follow this link from 7:25pm on Wednesday ->

meet.google.com/hfo-aiah-sqo

You may be prompted to download an app called ‘Hangouts Meet by Google’.

You may be prompted to allow your microphone and camera to be used.

Then press ‘Ask to join’.

From your less smart phone:

If you need to join by phone, call this number and enter the PIN when prompted.

+64 4-889 5146 PIN: ‪ 344498644#

How the talk will work:

Please mute your microphone when you join the call. Our Web President Juan will introduce the talk and describe how the talk will run.
If you would like to speak during the talk itself, you can use the chat function (you can see this by clicking the chat icon in the top right of your screen) or Tash or Juan may invite you to unmute and speak.

If you are having trouble joining try the following:

Try an alternative web browser or an alternative device.
If you are really struggling, then Juan has kindly agreed to be available via webmaster@wtmc.org.nz or on 022 198 2320 from 7:25pm.

BYO Tea and biscuits 🙂

See you tonight!

WTMC Photo Competition 2020
2020-09-02 19:30 - 20:30 | Google Hangouts, 4 Moncrieff Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand
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 who in the past has offered valuable critical comment on every photo submitted so it is a great way to learn what makes a good photo and how yours could be improved.
The best photos will kindly be collated and submitted to the FMC Photo Competition by Tony G. Photographers behind the prize winners and runners-up submitted to the FMC competition are eligible this year to some very generous prizes – including a 2 week voyage to the NZ Sub-Antarctic Islands.
For full information on categories visit the FMC website.
To check out the club winning pics from 2019 try here.
You can attend the talk remotely via ‘Google hangouts’. This means you can join from your computer, your smart phone, or even from your less smart phone (NOTE: You will not see the pictures if you join from your less smart phone). Computer or smartphone are best. Instructions for how to join the talk are set out below.
How to join:
-From your Computer: follow this link from 7.25pm on Wednesday –meet.google.com/wsw-yuph-jvn
You may be prompted to allow your microphone and camera to be jused. Then click ‘Ask to join’.
-From your smartphone: follow this link from 7.20pm on Wednesday – meet.google.com/wsw-yuph-jvn
You may be prompted to download an app called ‘Hangout Meets by Google’. You may be prompted to allow your microphone and camera to be jused. Then click ‘Ask to join’.
-From your less smart phone: if you need to join by phone, call this number and enter the PIN when prompted. +64 9-886 4036‬ PIN: ‪963 112 215‬#
How the talk will work:

Please mute your microphone when you join the call. Our Social Convenor Byron will introduce Grant and describe how the talk will run.
If you would like to speak during the talk itself, you can use the chat function (you can see this by clicking the chat icon on the top right hand screen) or Grant or Byron may invite you to unmute and speak.

If you are having trouble joining try the following:

Try an alternative web browser or an alternative device.
If you are really struggling, then Juan (WTMC Webmaster and Webpresident) has kindly agreed to be available via webmaster@wtmc.org.nz or on 0221982320 from 7.25pm.

See you then!

Hypothermia: Know your facts
2020-09-30 19:30 - 20:30 | TTC Hall – WTMC Gear room, 4 Moncrieff Street, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Come and hear Jenny Visser talk about everything you need to know about a common danger for trampers – hypothermia.

WTMC Talks: Great Barrier Island: What is essential is invisible to the eye!
2020-10-07 19:00 - 20:30 | TTC Hall – WTMC Gear room, 4 Moncrieff Street, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Come and here club member Juan talk about his experiences on Aotea/Great Barrier Island.

WTMC Talks: Christmas wanderings in the Canterbury High Country
2020-10-14 19:00 - 20:30 | TTC Hall – WTMC Gear room, 4 Moncrieff Street, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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 the new Te Kahui Kaupeka and Hakatere Conservation Parks. Richard (and possibly Harry) will talk about their Christmas trip in this region with Kevin Cole, Matthew Conway, and Tony Stephens.

Battery Amnesty!
2020-10-28 19:00 - 19:30, 2020-11-04 19:00 - 19:30 | TTC Hall – WTMC Gear room, 4 Moncrieff Street, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Battery Amnesty – bring your old batteries to club and get them recycled for free!
The Club is working towards treading a little more lightly on our earth. One way of doing this is making it easy for our members to recycle responsibly. That is why we are organizing a battery amnesty where you can bring along your old dead batteries to club night and we will pay for them to be recycled responsibly for you – what a deal!
What does it mean to recycle responsibly? We will be taking the batteries to the Wellington Sustainability Trust, who charge $5 a kilo for recycling batteries (they also offer a lot of other e-waste recycling services). They send the e-waste to IT Recycla who look to reuse as much of it as they can.
We know you have a stash of old batteries, from your head torch or your GPS device, rolling around in the top drawer. Bring them along to club on 17 or 24 September, hand them over to the door monitor, and remove a little bit of environmental guilt from your life!

WTMC Talks: Learnings from concussions
2020-10-28 19:30 - 20:30 | TTC Hall – WTMC Gear room, 4 Moncrieff Street, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Our Social Convenor will talk about an experience of concussion, and how to treat it.

WTMC Talks: Walking the Annapurna Circuit
2020-11-04 19:30 - 20:30 | TTC Hall – WTMC Gear room, 4 Moncrieff Street, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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.

WTMC Talks: PLBs and backcountry Communication devices - what you need to know
2020-11-11 19:00 - 20:30 | TTC Hall – WTMC Gear room, 4 Moncrieff Street, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
What’s the difference between a mountain radio and an inReach? Can I take only my cellphone in the backcountry. What happens when a plb gets set off? Don’t know your VHF from your GPS? Come along and find out from our resident expert Pete Gent!

Paua Hut adventures - Tony Stephens
2020-11-18 19:30 - 20:30 | TTC Hall – WTMC Gear room, 4 Moncrieff Street, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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.

WTMC Talks: Tongariro National Park - a Summer wonderland!
2020-11-25 19:30 - 20:30 | TTC Hall – WTMC Gear room, 4 Moncrieff Street, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Come and hear club member Miles Davison talk about all the wonderful adventures you can have in Tongariro National Park during the summer time – and all by basing yourself at the Club’s Lodge!

Pumice on the Tops: A week in the Kawekas
2020-12-02 19:30 - 20:30 | TTC Hall – WTMC Gear room, 4 Moncrieff Street, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
In October, club member Meredith Ackrill managed to get a week off work, and spent it doing a solo jaunt around the Kawekas. From kiwi to whio, sunshine to rain, cold bivvies to brand-new hot pools, this trip had everything – except people. Come and hear her talk about her adventure!

Forest & Bird Wellington: We “Give Nature a Voice” — OK, so what do we actually do?
2020-12-09 19:30 - 20:30 | TTC Hall – WTMC Gear room, 4 Moncrieff Street, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Most people in New Zealand have heard of Forest & Bird, but few are aware of the range of activities its members get involved with. With the largest number of members of any environmental group in New Zealand, the members of its 45+branches undertake a wide range of conservation projects, as well as writing submissions, letters and emails to local authorities and using social media in an attempt to “Give Nature a Voice”.
Ken New has been a member for 40 years and for the last 10 years he’s been part of the Wellington Branch committee, most recently as Secretary. He was also Chairperson of the Southern Environmental Association for several years. His love for the environment has taken him tramping in the UK, most states of Australia and on several of the Great Walks of New Zealand. Ken will give an illustrated talk about the various Forest & Bird projects currently under way in the Wellington region and will be happy to answer any questions you may have about Forest & Birdand its activities, locally or nationally.

Gear room only - no social event
2020-12-16 19:00 - 19:30 | TTC Hall – WTMC Gear room, 4 Moncrieff Street, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
