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This coming Sunday and Monday (26th and 27th February) there are a number of great events on at Zealandia and other reserves in the Wellington region where you can learn to identify some of the amazing flora and fauna we enjoy here in New Zealand. The programme of events is called ‘Bioblitz-Go!’. We thought a number of … Read more
WTMC Annual General Meeting (AGM) We are pleased to invite all club members to the AGM of the WTMC to be held on Wednesday 5 April, 2017, at the Sustainability Trust (our temporary club-rooms) at 7:30 pm. An agenda will be sent with a second notification before the 15 March 2017. Tony Gazley President
Condensed version. The trip plan as submitted on the intentions sheet was: Friday evening – ferry and travel to Murchison. Saturday – drive to Mataki Lodge and walk up the valley to Mole Hut. Sunday – walk up to Mole Saddle and Mole Tops. If the weather is OK camp at Mole Saddle, otherwise Mole … Read more
Thanks to everyone that leads trips. It is a key role for the club, and the great thing is, that anyone with support – can do it. So give it a try in the 2017. If you haven’t lead a trip yet…find a buddy and give it a go. Don’t forget to let me know … Read more
We departed the Railway station shortly after 5.30 on Friday night, sharing a van with Simon’s Medium grade trip who were heading for the same road end – Holdsworth. After delicious kebabs in Carterton, we arrived at Holdsworth Campground to find the place heaving with trail runners and their support teams and families preparing for … Read more
The Club website currently runs on three applications, the main wtmc.org.nz site (Drupal), the newsletter site (WordPress) and the forum (Phorum). Three different applications multiply the volunteer learning time to use and maintain. With many people now using mobile devices to view our most popular pages (trip list and social night programme) the sites are … Read more
I was a bit concerned about the weather and this trip certainly had a reputation (as I had been told that the last Club attempt at the Pinnacles resulted in a trip turn-around due to weather). Nevertheless, once the trip was organised and food allocated, we met up at the train station on Friday night … Read more
We all met at Platform 9 at 8.00am on Saturday, a delayed start from Friday night due to a running race being held on the Holdsworth Track. We also changed our route plan, missing Jumbo Hut, so as to avoid the ridge on Sunday. The weather looked good as we headed to the Wairarapa onto … Read more
As part of Radio New Zealand’s summer series Lyn Freeman interviewed WTMC Chief Guide Illona Keenan and Tararua Tramping Club president Peter Barber about tramping. How about having a listen. Go to … http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/the-weekend/audio/201829408/the-great-outdoors-tramping
The lure of Christmas shopping, or perhaps the panic of not having done it earlier, meant that there were only three of us on the medium tramp to Triangle hut in the Ruahines the weekend before Christmas. We shared transport with the equally select ‘gourmet’ easy tramp group of four who were heading up to … Read more