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Ōtaki Forks temporary walking access
- Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
- Ōtaki Forks temporary walking access A guide to DOC’s Emergency Access Track that provides a walking track to Ōtaki Forks bypassing the slip at Blue Bluff that has closed the road, and notes that the road will be reopened sometime in 2025. Note: (updated 18 December 2024) As of 21 December 2020 DOC has opened ... Read more
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WTMC Ruapehu Summer Lodge – and the remarkable Unnamed Glacier
- Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
- WTMC Ruapehu Summer Lodge – and the remarkable Unnamed Glacier The smallest glacier on Mt Ruapehu is the most unusual – it is possibly the only glacier in New Zealand not melting away. And it is relatively easy to get to from the WTMC Ruapehu Lodge. There are nine named glaciers on Mt Ruapehu, including ... Read more
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Mt Ruapehu accommodation – the WTMC lodge at Whakapapa
- Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
- Mt Ruapehu accommodation –the WTMC lodge at Whakapapa The Wellington Tramping and Mountaineering club owns and runs a lodge at the Whakapapa Skifield that will be open for public accommodation during 29 December 2024 to 12 January 2025. More people visit Tongariro in summer than in winter. Summer visitors use the many opportunities offered by the ... Read more
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Chief Guide Update – trip fees going down!
- Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
- Kia ora, This month is a short update from the Chief Guide on the new trip fee structure that the club will be trialling from 1 December 2024 onwards, a look at some of the club’s efforts to support the FMC’s ‘Love our Huts’ campaign, and a few notices. Ngā mihi, Sara H | chiefguide@wtmc.org.nz ... Read more
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Mangatoetoe Hut and Kawakawa Hut – Aorangi Forest Park
- Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
- Friday: We met at 4 pm at Wellington Train Station in the carpark by platform 9. After a 2 1/2 hr drive we arrived at Aorangi crossing carpark, Cape Palliser road. It took an easy-paced 1 hr 10 min hike along Mangatoetoe Stream to reach Mangatoetoe Hut -just as the light started to fade. This ... Read more
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Fighting for the underbird – helping out on the Tin Range, Rakiura
- Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
- The fight for the underbird – helping out on the Tin Range, Rakiura A week on the Tin Range Stewart Island helping the Department of Conservation rangers with predator control to protect one of NZ’s most endangered birds the southern dotterel. If you want to save a species or habitat it’s a fight for evermore. You can ... Read more
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Penn Creek Hut – Tararua Forest Park
- Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
- The group assembled at Platform 10 (basically 9 ¾ for WTMC) for what would end up being a wet, but enjoyable, weekend in the Tararuas. The plan originally was to head to Winchcombe Biv. However, the weather forecast was not in our favour, with winds from 35-40km/h and gusts up to 100km/h predicted for Saturday ... Read more
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Minimum effort, maximum gain: Sentry Box, Parks Peak and Upper Makaroro Huts – Ruahine Forest Park
- Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
- Unfortunately, our original plan to do a return trip to Triangle Hut from the western side of the Ruahine Range was not to be, owing to the high winds and soggy weather forecast for the weekend. However, it looked like the Eastern side of the Range would have a better weather profile, so we opted ... Read more
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Mt Ngāuruhoe – a day loop from the lodge
- Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
- Mt Ngāuruhoe – a day loop from the lodge A hiking loop trip to the summit of Mt Ngāuruhoe from the Wellington Tramping and Mountaineering Club (WTMC) Lodge on Mt Ruapehu. Something to think about next time you are at the lodge. Mt Ngāuruhoe is the second highest mountain in the Tongariro National Park at ... Read more
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Poulter Valley – an Arthur’s Pass adventure
- Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
- Poulter ValleyMinchin PassBinser Saddle A 4 day hiking trip through spectacular mountain scenery in Arthur’s Pass National Park I pulled my running poles out of my bag in surprise. I had forgotten to take them out before I packed at home. I wondered what else I had forgotten to take out and would be carrying ... Read more
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Tapuae – o – Uenuku – Inland Kaikōura Range
- Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
- For a lengthier and much more creatively written report of this trip take a read of Sam’s account here: https://medium.com/engage/tapping-out-of-tappy-de5027b8a21b. We caught the ferry on Thursday afternoon after squishing five people’s alpine packs into the car, and then stayed the night at a Picton backpackers – which made for a very leisurely start to the ... Read more
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Herepai Hut – Tararua Forest Park
- Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
- We met at the Wellington Train Station carpark for an 8am departure. We were sharing the club van with the medium group of four who were planning to go to Cattle Ridge Hut via Roaring Stag Hut. With heavy rain forecast for later in the afternoon and for much of the following morning, we were ... Read more
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Finding Tin Hut – Belmont Regional Park
- Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
- The five of us met at Wellington Railway Station and caught a bus at around 8.30am to Petone. At Petone Station we crossed over SH2 and headed to the Cornish St entrance of Belmont Regional Park, to start walking the Korokoro Stream Track. Belmont Regional Park walks and map https://www.gw.govt.nz/parks/belmont-regional-park/ After a quick check of ... Read more
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All of club update – from the Committee
- Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
- Kia ora, We haven’t had a club newsletter for a few months, so this will be a bumper issue ‘from the committee’! Grab a cuppa and settle in to hear what’s been going on across the club. This article provides updates from each of our committee portfolios and a look at what’s coming up over ... Read more
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Maungahuka Hut – Tararua Forest Park
- Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
- Fri 11 Oct – Waiohine Road End to Totora Flats HutWe joined the medium group in the van on Friday after work and headed over the hill to Waiohine Gorge road end, via the supermarket and takeaways in Greytown. This was to be Isabella’s first tramp in New Zealand! – very gutsy going straight for ... Read more
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A beautiful weekend for Blue Range Hut – Tararua Forest Park
- Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
- On this beautiful sunny Saturday morning our group left Wellington Railway Station at 9am. Lizzy was having her first overnight tramp and we couldn’t have hoped for a better day for it. In Featherston we stopped for coffee and when we arrived at the Kiriwhakapapa road end the day was still looking great. As we ... Read more
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Sunrise Hut – Ruahine Forest Park
- Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
- We met at Wellington Train Station at 5pm and piled into the van for the trip north, stopping in Levin for dinner on the way. We’d neglected to heed the notice on the DOC website that Fletchers Crossing Bridge was closed, so we unexpectedly came across a very-much-not-there bridge and had to backtrack to the ... Read more
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Arete Forks via Table Ridge – Tararua Forest Park
- Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
- This trip was to be one of many firsts: my first as a trip leader, and the first club trip for both Aaron and Ellis who had recently joined the WTMC. The other ‘first’ was the red lining planned. The primary goal of the trip was to get to Arete Forks Hut via Table Ridge, ... Read more
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Alpine Week – Arthur’s Pass National Park
- Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
- With only a few weeks notice, I proposed a week long trip to Arthur’s Pass to get some time on the snow. The plan was simple – climb some of the many easy peaks as day trips and come back to the village each night and stay warm and cosy. Organising the trip was also ... Read more
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Devils Creek Hut – Mt Richmond Forest Park
- Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
- The trip began with us all meeting at Wellington Train Station to catch a 4pm ferry sailing to the South Island. Our original plan was to camp at Butchers Flat campsite, but as the forecast was looking rather awful, we made a decision while waiting for the ferry to book accommodation in Picton for the ... Read more
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Not Alpha Hut – changing plans in the changeable Tararuas
- Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
- Plan A was an overnight loop to Alpha Hut – starting at Kaitoke road end: taking Marchant ridge to Alpha Hut and then returning via the Omega Track (with the return involving fording the Tauwharenikau River [formerly called the “Tauherenikau” River] and taking the track on the true left of the River back to the ... Read more
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Tutuwai Hut – Tararua Forest Park
- Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
- This trip started off bright and early with the group meeting at the train station at 7am on Saturday morning. The trip leaders had been keeping an eye on the heavy rain forecast all week and it wasn’t meant to start pouring until late afternoon – so we wanted to do as much walking as ... Read more
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Ōrongorongo Valley hut-bagging
- Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
- The trip schedule proposed an Ōrongorongo hut-bagging trip, with a particular focus on visiting Baine-Iti and Goat Stream Huts. There are many private huts in the Ōrongorongo Valley, so the precise trip plan could be as relaxed or ambitious as the group desired. Eight people were keen for this spontaneous adventure. We carpooled to Catchpool ... Read more
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The allure of Rakiura’s Tin Range – a solo FMC scholarship
- Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
- The allure of Rakiura’s Tin Range A solo expedition to rugged southern Rakiura including an ascent of the granite peak Gog, partly funded by a Simon Bell scholarship with the FMC New Zealand. Rakiura anchors more than Maui’s canoe. It anchors in its rocks, rivers and rugged shores, and in its garnishment of plants and animals, ... Read more
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Totara Flats Hut via the Gentle Annie Track – Tararua Forest Park
- Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
- Snow on Powell!Our journey began with a drive on the winding road to the Wairarapa, we eventually arrived at our first stop, the Clareville Bakery, for a last minute coffee and pastry. Once satiated with morning tea, we began our journey to the Tararuas, with a radiant sun shining, the snow was glittering off the ... Read more
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Sparrowhawk Biv – Ruahine Forest Park
- Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
- We travelled up to the Ruahine Ranges with another (EM) group from the club who were going to Sunrise and Top Maropea Huts. The weather forecast for our ridge travel to Sparrowhawk Biv had been looking unkind for most of the week, but was improving, so we all left Wellington in good spirits. After stopping ... Read more
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Kaukau summit – an easy day walk
- Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
- Kaukau summit An easy day walk Kaukau is the highest point close to Wellington and the 360 degree views from the summit are well worth the effort getting there. There are tracks starting from Johnsonville, Broadmeadows, Khandallah and Ngaio. Arguably the easiest is from the carpark at Johnsonville Park at the end of Truscott Avenue. ... Read more
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Trains Hut – Waitōtara Conservation Area
- Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
- We set off from Wellington Train Station a little later than usual, at 7pm. This allowed us to avoid peak traffic and we made good time to Bulls to grab a falafel and beverage. It was then on to Braemar House, in Whanganui (our accommodation for the night), arriving at 9.40pm. We’d booked one large ... Read more
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Mt Tongariro – Cinderella and the Dancing Dinosaur
- Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
- Mt Tongariro – Cinderella and the Dancing Dinosaur A 2 day hiking loop trip through the spectacular mountain scenery of the Tongariro National Park in early winter Sarah, could I please have my shoes back? I looked down at my feet and realised I was having a Cinderella moment at Mangatepopo Hut on Saturday morning and ... Read more
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Red Rocks – Wellington: runners and trampers – but the seals steal the show.
- Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
- Right on schedule, we were ready to start walking, just after 10.30am, from Te Kopahou, where the visitor centre is well worth dropping into. The area was busier than usual, with an aid station set up for the WUU2K Wellington Urban Ultra Marathon, along with supporters waiting for their friends to come through.The first part ... Read more
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