Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club / June 2025
An outdoor adventure club in Wellington, New Zealand
July 2025 | May 2025-
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Roaring Stag Hut – Tararua Forest Park
- Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
- After a wet and rather dreary couple of weeks, our group of 7 Easy Medium (EM) walkers were very happy to see the sun coming out as we drove out of Wellington Train Station with a Medium Fit (MF) group from the club at 8am on Saturday morning. Day 1 – Saturday We dropped the ... Read more
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Leon Kinvig Hut Ruahine Traverse – Ruahine Forest Park
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- The plan for this weekend was concocted because we were unable to access Ruahine Forest Park from Mangakukeke Road end. Anne de Ferron suggested an inspired alternative: a traverse via the newly relocated Leon Kinvig Hut. This idea would allow enable two Medium Fit (MF) club groups to do a key swap and enjoy excellent ... Read more
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Mt Tongariro via South Ridge – from the WTMC Ruapehu Lodge
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- Mt Tongariro – a day walk from the WTMC Ruapehu Lodge A loop day hike via the South Ridge to the summit of Mt Tongariro from the WTMC Lodge in the Tongariro National Park including a map of the route. Having done a fair bit of exploring around Tongariro National Park using the WTMC lodge ... Read more
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Lake Waikaremoana Great Walk – Te Urewera
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- Friday We set off to do this 3-4 day Great Walk in 3 days from Wellington train station promptly at 12:30pm. On the way to Waikaremoana Holiday park we stopped in Napier for a delicious dinner of pizzas, Pad Thai and kebabs. We arrived at the holiday park at around 10pm. We stayed there in ... Read more
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Kaiparoro Plane Wreck – Tararua Forest Park
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- I was originally inspired to start bagging plane wrecks in the Tararuas at a club talk back in 2021, so I am happy to report that four years later I have now ticked off two plane wrecks. The first was near Mick, on the western side of the range, so it is appropriate that this ... Read more
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Riddles in the Ruahines and Crackle Conundrums: an eventful weekend trip to Iron Gates Hut!
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- Our group of 8 kicked things off as usual by departing Wellington Train Station at 5pm on Friday – piling into the van with 3 Medium-Fit (MF) trampers. Day 1 After a 3 hour drive, we were up past Feilding and winding around the back-roads heading towards Petersons Road end. One of the crew had ... Read more
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Pāua Hut Family Trip – Remutaka Forest Park
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- Saturday – 10 May On the weekend of 10 – 11 May, my mum, our new friends, me and a small dog called Sophie decided to walk to Pāua Hut. The hike started at the Catchpool Carpark (Remutaka Forest Park). We had our photo taken by the sign at the start of the track and ... Read more
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From the President – June 2025
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- Kia ora, May has flown by and we are now into winter. We’re almost at the shortest day of the year, which for me (and some others) means about six months until our SK Main Range sub-48-hour attempt! There is a lot of work happening around the club, so this month read on to find ... Read more
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Tutuwai Hut – Tararua Forest Park
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- This trip was organised a bit late in the piece, after we were unable to secure enough bunks at Jumbo Hut (where we had originally planned to go). SaturdayWe travelled in the club van with another group from the tramping club who were heading to Jumbo Hut – departing from Wellington Train Station at 7am. ... Read more
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