Wellington Tramping and Mountaineering Club
Enjoying the great outdoors since 1947
Check out the latest news and trips reports below or view the archives using the menu on the left. If you want to know more about the newsletter including submitting stories, see Newsletter>Publication Details. To learn more about the club, check the top menu. Some links will take you to the old website, but content will eventually move to this site.
The website users’ list has been updated so all your contact details should now be up to date. Even better, there are 28-odd new members who have been added to the website users’ list. If you’re one of these users, you should have received a ‘welcome’ email with some details about how to log onto … Read more
There are three DoC walks near the Wairarapa coast that may be of interest to you: Rockyhill: 6km return and has great views. Honeycomb Rock: a flat 10km return along the beach and passes seal colony. Oumakura Stream Bush Reserve: 400 acres of nice bush to walk around, with lots of wild deer living that … Read more
Sharron Came, President At the time of writing I am looking forward to heading up to our fully booked Lodge for the last weekend of Snowcraft 2012. Magic to have a good weather forecast and to know there is currently white stuff coating the rocks. Of course it will be interesting to see what Tongariro … Read more
Amanda Wells, Chief Guide We’ve completed the trip schedule for Spring, which runs from September till Anniversary weekend in January. Thanks to all those who have signed up to lead trips; you play the most important role in the club. It’s inspiring to see so many people who completed the leadership course earlier this year … Read more
Helen Law, Membership officer This month we welcome four senior members: Rini Sugianto, Brendan Eckert, Jenna Mein and Meena Kadri. We also welcome Ellie Atkins joining as child member. If you have recently changed your postal address or your contact details need updating, please notify me by sending me an email or send it … Read more
Jenny Beaumont, Social convenor Wednesday night talks this month: 29th August – “shorts night”. Let me know if you’d like to show a few slides. 5th September – Katja Reidel will give us some pointers on how to take a good photo.. come and be inspired to enter our annual photo competition! 12th September – Family tramping … Read more
Brian Goodwin, Ruapehu Lodge convenor Jan and I spent two weeks in the Lodge recently. The first week was a club ski week and the second we were club representatives for a school group. We had nine days skiing out of twelve with five Bluebird (clear) days and the other with a mix of sun … Read more
The trip was a lodge based ice climbing trip. The difficulty: no ice. I only had one other punter and due to severe jet lag they decided to bail too. What to do? The answer was to recruit someone on really short notice. Luckily I was climbing with Simon on Thursday and persuaded him that … Read more
Note to the Committee: I feel I must notify you of a conflict of interest I have, as myself and others have formed a new club that inevitably will compete with the WTMC. A group of us have had a flash of insight that there is a totally un-serviced need in the tramping community, and … Read more
This trip promised great things: 3 days away, good weather (which always seems to happen in Nelson Lakes), an easy walk in and an achievable peak. And that was before I met everyone else on the trip. Our party were: Mike P, stalwart leader, Katie, Rini, Paul, Gary, Kevin and myself (Paula). The ferry trip … Read more