Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club / January 2026
An outdoor adventure club in Wellington, New Zealand
February 2026 | December 2025-
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Lake Chalice Hut – Mt Richmond Forest Park (and aborted Mt Owen trip)
- Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
- Prelude: We had all been really looking forward to our planned Mt Owen trip in Kahurangi National Park. However, it turned out that when we arrived on site, the water level flowing over the Dart River ford (which you need to cross to access the track to Mt Owen from the North) was too high, and ... Read more
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From the President – January 2026
- Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
- Kia ora and happy new year. I hope you were all able to enjoy some time with your loved ones over the summer break, and get outdoors and into the hills despite some bad weather! For me, two of the highlights were finally visiting JACS Biv in the Tararuas with Mon (on our third attempt), ... Read more
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Ruapehu Lodge and Zekes Hut
- Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
- We left the station on the dot of 4pm, with a van full of Wellington’s finest. Our trip to WTMC’s legendary, lovely Ruapehu Lodge was disturbed firstly by a tramper performing some emergency mergers and acquisitions in Levin, and later an emergency burger stop at the piiza[sic] shop in Bulls. Once we arrived at the ... Read more
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Mt Fyffe – Hapuku Hut traverse (Seaward Kaikoura Range – Marlborough)
- Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
- After a lovely sailing on the Interislander on Friday, we arrived at Spring Creek Holiday Park in the early evening and were able to get organised ahead of our tramp. The following day, after a quick coffee and bakery stop in Kaikoura, we ventured to the Mount Fyffe road end, and began our tramp at ... Read more
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Protecting Whio, the fight for survival – Apias trapline, Ruahine Ranges
- Wellington Tramping and Mountainneering Club
- “If you want to save a species or habitat, it’s a fight forevermore. You can never turn your back.” Trapping has taken me so many different places since 2021, when I first began volunteering on a trapline in my local bush reserve, Waimapihi Reserve. Over the last few years I have added another two traplines ... Read more
- Accepted from WTMC news 2020 by feedreader
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- wcn-hosted
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