Wellington Tramping and Mountaineering Club
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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.
A group of 16 set out in good weather for the popular Cornish St to Korokoro Dam walk, a 3 hour return trip. The track follows Korokoro stream all the way to the dam, which was built in 1903 to supply Petone. Remnants of the water pipeline remain. Our group had a good number of … Read more
Author: Newsletter editor, Sarah Young Are you a budding artist? Do you know anyone who is? Every month I publish my favourite photo from the articles submitted to the front cover. I’d like to change that and print an eye catching, self explanatory illustration on the front cover; if someone saw the newsletter on your … Read more
Author: Tony Gazley (soon-to-be Journal editor) Do you have an interesting story to tell? Have you been on an interesting trip in the last year and took amazing photographs to match? Send your story and photographs to for inclusion in the next WTMC journal. Deadline for submissions is 25 February 2012.
Author: Sue Walsh, Ruapehu Lodge convenor Merry Christmas to all the users of the lodge! We hope you had an enjoyable experience at the lodge over winter. We strongly encourage you to consider the lodge as summer destination too. If you’re not used to the seeing the mountain in its summer glory you will be pleasantly surprised. There’s … Read more
Author: Donna Maher and Jenny Beaumont, Social convenors The club will be open from 7.30pm – 8pm on the 21st December for gear pick-up and returns only. For those interested, we will wander down to a local pub for pre-Christmas drinks at 8pm. The club rooms will be closed on the 28th December and 4th … Read more
Author: Donna Maher and Jenny Beaumont, Social convenors We have set the date for our annual photo competition: Wednesday 7th March 2012. We’ll be asking for entries in early February (we’ll confirm a date soon) – so don’t forget to take your camera out and about with you over the summer holidays! We have aligned … Read more
Author: Amanda Wells, Chief Guide While Christmas is looming, today I am focused on the slightly closer deadline of the WTMC Summer trip schedule. Between now and you reading this newsletter, it will have been semi-miraculously filled and the wrestle with Microsoft Office won. I hope! Thanks to everyone who’s put their hand up to … Read more
Author: Sharron Came, President With the year drawing to a close many of you will be putting the finishing touches to your holiday tramping plans. The summer trip schedule will be out soon and hopefully there are a few trips therein that pique your interest. Big thanks to Amanda and Richard for putting the schedule … Read more
The Goat (http://www.thegoat.co.nz/) is an exhilarating adventure run from Whakapapa to Turoa Ski Fields on the Round the Mountain track, traversing the western slopes of Mount Ruapehu. The 21 kilometre course has over 1000 metres of vertical ascent and covers a whole bunch of amazing terrain. It is a demanding yet achievable run that is … Read more
What better way to spend the long Labour weekend of the 2011 Rugby World Cup Final than isolated in the second best mountain range for tramping in the world? I certainly couldn’t think of a better way: it was easy to wing my way back to New Zealand and head into the Ruahines! I stapled … Read more