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Author: Sarah Young What a fun filled newsletter we have this month with a huge variety of trip reports ranging from family trips and black tie lunches to experience testing fit trips and medium trips. Thank you to all of you for putting up with, and bowing down to my pestering and requests for newsletter … Read more
Author: Tony Gazley (soon-to-be Journal editor) Yes folks there will be one, but for a number of reasons not until March next year. The good news is that the delay will give you plenty of time to write a story about a great trip you have been on during the last year, or trips you … Read more
Firstly, for those who know me, let me state that this trip actually started and was completed on Plan A! Yes, I managed to actually lead a trip that not only went someplace but was successfully completed on the intended plan and I didn’t lose any punters along the way. You can check with my … Read more
It’s Thursday night and I’m tired. My bed is the back seat of the Club van parked at the George Stream road end. Not a bad option if you are short in stature, short on time and good at sleeping. Friday night and my bed is half a minaret pitched on a grassy flat about … Read more
Friday night, 5.30pm, Wellington Railway Station. Perfect. We have infiltrated a party of climbers heading for “The Lodge”. This lodge will be a perfect base for our weekend operation. We hope this lodge will prove as comfortable as it sounds, even if it traffic reports indicate we might be in for a long drive. Friday … Read more
Hopefully you have been taking full advantage of the great Spring weather to get outdoors tramping, cycling, kayaking, running or just to catching the pool matches in the Rugby World Cup. Shivering in the Cake Tin watching Scotland try to beat Argentina did remind me rather a lot of tramping. With daylight saving here now … Read more
An interesting development in the Tararuas: Powell hut is now bookable between 1 November and the end of February. The price remains the same but there is an additional management fee of $5-$10 “depending on party size” that everyone, including holders of annual hut passes, will have to pay. Apparently “unallocated bunks will be available … Read more
This month, we welcome 3 new senior members to our club: Natascha Sauben, Paula Vincent and Katy Glenie. Also, I want to thank you those who sent through your views on the current club membership policies. Your opinions, suggestions of possible changes and improvements will be discussed during our next committee meeting in 2 weeks … Read more
Mt Angelus After 4 long years the RWC is upon us at last. Our pre match build up has been arduous both physically and mentally. On top of the training we have had to endure relentless hounding from the local and international media, the IRB and the sandflies. However, I think all these trials have … Read more
The tail of the big snowstorm of 2011 had passed and the weather appeared to be coming good just at the right time. The sheer volume of snow and the last of the bad weather along the East Coast had seen a late change of plan; our Tappy trip had became a Nelson Lakes one … Read more