Roaring Stag Hut

Trip to Roaring Stag

Date: 9-10 February 2013.
Trip type: Easy medium tramp, Flora / fauna appreciation,.
Location: Tararuas.
Author: Rachel Boschen.
Trampers: Illona Keenan (leader), Marie Smith, Marie Henderson, Rachel Boschen, Barbara Keenan, Richard Salisbury, David Barker and Emily Shrosbree..

After a slightly bleary-eyed 7.30am meet on the Saturday morning, a club minibus jam-packed with sleepy trampers left for the Tararuas in hot pursuit after Illona’s car. As a tramping-virgin, I had been warned about the mysteriously misty, murky and muddy Tararuas and had sat through various club presentations picturing drizzly-looking forest and decidedly damp-looking … Read more

Roaring Stag

Date: 24 - 25 November 2012.
Trip type: Easy-Medium Tramp.
Location: Tararuas.
Author: Richard Lyth.
Trampers: Richard Lyth, Jo Fink, Ashley Pendree, Barbara Keenan, Clinton Hunter, Felix Over, James Hemming, Anna Lambrechtsen, Luke Fraser, Maarten Ruiter, Brendon Caskey.

We were lucky with great weather this weekend. Departure from Putara Road was in bright sun. The group of 11 set off upstream leaving a vocal farm dog behind us. The trip was a pleasant day in the bush, marked with a couple of breaks. We arrived at Roaring Stag early afternoon, with plenty of … Read more