Wellington Tramping and Mountaineering Club
Enjoying the great outdoors since 1947
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Our drive up on Saturday morning involved lots of discussion about the weather. Were we doing the right thing? Should we maybe go to Rangiwahia instead, avoiding any potentially nasty creek crossings? The severe weather warning was pretty vague as to when exactly to expect the forecast gales and rain. Hmmmm. At Shannon it was … Read more
Armed with maps, compasses and lollies, we headed into the hills from the carpark at Kiriwhakapapa (Ethnicity; lit. genealogical skin) with the trip leader, Amanda, to show us what’s what. After following the Old Tram Track up to the first saddle, we settled down to our first lesson in navigation. Instructions were laid down for … Read more
More photos from Sarah & Rachel – Album 1 & Album 2 After several changes to the original trip plan due to the alpine trips been canned and storms dumping a whole heap of snow along the tops of the Tararuas, a tramp to Waitewaewae was eventually decided upon. The group of nine, including team … Read more
Continued from Snowcraft 2014 Part 1 in last month’s newsletter… On the way up to Whakapapa it got darker and cold. We could see by the side of the road from National Park that a lot more snow fell during the week. On the drive up the Bruce, past the snow chain bay the van … Read more
You can read more later in this newsletter about the changes we’re looking at around membership. Thanks for your feedback on the membership categories – we’ve made some minor tweaks in response. We would also like your views around the requirements to join the club, particularly the two-trips requirement. Feel free to drop me an … Read more
Thanks a lot for your contributions and ideas to the membership categories ideas – those of you that talked to committee members, emailed us, and posted comments. It was really appreciated and has helped us a great deal to firm up the categories proposal. Membership Categories – thanks for your feedback We received many comments … Read more
We’ll be holding our next New Members’ Night on Wednesday, 29 October from 7:30pm. We’ve started hosting these nights twice a year to reach out to those who are keen to join the club, or just to get out in the great New Zealand outdoors for the first time. In the past years we’ve seen more then … Read more
Recently we’ve had a number of weekends when both club vans have been in use and we’ve needed to hire vehicles. To cover these situations, WTMC has signed a contact with Thrifty Rentals to supply rental vehicles when both club vans are in use. In these situations, it is now club policy to use Thrifty … Read more
Volunteering A few weekends ago I was signed up to go and empty some stoat traps in the Ruahines on a trip led by Illona Keenan. Unfortunately there was too much snow on the access road and the trip has now been postponed to September. The trapping of stoats was targeted to an area of … Read more
Sue returns today from her adventures and while she was away, I’m shocked to report that no one took up my offer of a chocolate bar in return for a club talk. So just in case you missed it, I’ll offer a second chance…sign-up to give a club talk in the month of October and … Read more