Wellington Tramping and Mountaineering Club
enjoying the great outdoors since 1947
Amanda Wells 
Great news – we’ve been granted $20,000 from the DOC Community Fund to intensify our trapping efforts in the Western Ruahines. Our goal is to put an A24 trap next to every DOC200 trap in the lines managed by WTMC, Lisa & Geoff Whittle and the Awarua Aorangi Trust. The $20K we’ve been granted will help … 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
This is the last time that I’ll write something here as President (even if lately I haven’t been writing as often as I’d like). At next week’s AGM, a number of people will step down from Committee. I’d like to thank Steve Austin, Jo Fink, Emily Shrosbree, Rebecca Day and Richard Lardner for their efforts … Read more
Happy belated New Year! This was meant to be a pre-Christmas message but a virus swallowed up most of my December. I hope you have had a great break and managed to get out tramping during that amazing weather between Christmas and New Year. As well as business as usual, the committee has been focusing … Read more
Oops, I have missed a couple of months due to work travel and pressure. For many of us, it’s been a busy few months on a number of fronts. Thanks to everyone who attended the very successful first aid course in June (and to Beccy who spearheaded the organisation of this). It’s great to have … Read more
This month I had time to either write this column or a trip report. I figured the latter might be more interesting. You can read my trip report of the Haukura ridge navigation in this newsletter. Meanwhile, please imagine the following crafted into nice prose and spun out to 300 words. The end of 2014/15 committee … Read more
On a Friday night in May 2006, a band of hardy WTMC M trampers ventured into Northern Tararuas. Three days later they emerged – scratched and broken by leatherwood, attempts at compass navigation in the dark and arguments about oversized watches. Their Haukura Ridge trip was to gain enduring life as a case study in our … Read more
I hope you have been enjoying this beautiful summer. Unfortunately I’ve been spending a lot of time chained to the computer but looking forward to remedying that sometime soon! At our February committee meeting one of the things we discussed was feedback on the logo design circulated in December. It was a pretty short discussion … Read more
I hope you’ve had a good holiday break filled with tramping or other adventures. Certainly the weather in the Tararuas has looked amazing the past week or two! We’ve got some interesting-looking trips on the schedule in February, March and April so it’s a good time to be making good on that resolution to tramp … Read more
Thanks to those of you who made the effort to come to club night last week and participate in the EGM. This EGM was held to vote on the series of constitutional amendments needed to enact changes to our membership categories. I can report that the motion was passed by an extremely convincing show of … Read more