Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club / October 2024
An outdoor adventure club in Wellington, New Zealand
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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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Tin Hut, Korokoro Valley Track, Maungaraki, Lower Hutt, Lower Hutt City, Wellington, 5012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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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
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- 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
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- 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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Blue Range Hut, Waingawa River Track, Carterton District, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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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
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- 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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