Hi All The summer calendar is now up and underway and first up this weekend is hut bagging to the new Sth Ohau hut in the northern Tararuas. The plan is to head in on Saturday so you can still go to Adam's party on Friday night... We would meet on Saturday at the Hunter car park at 9am. There is then around 2 hours drive and up to a 5 hour walk ...

Hi Everyone   This weekend I’m keen to head into the Tararuas for a weekend tramp.   If I can bag my (this time) last Tararua hut (South Ohau) that will be all the more satisfying.   At present the tentative plan is to head into the Northern Tararuas on Friday night.  From there, depending on interest and fitness ...

  The Paringa has to be one of the easier West Coast rivers to get up. Standing on the Paringa Bridge on SH6 no gorge sits between you and the mountains of the Hooker range. The farmland is even pretty tolerable! After a pleasant amble with overloaded packs, we spent the last few hours of Boxing Day at the Condons private hut, in the company ...

Hi Everyone  With ANZAC Day on Friday this weekend is a 3 day weekend and an opportunity to get well into the Tararuas. There's a range of options, and the grade of trip will depend on sign ups.  Options could include a Carkeek attempt, including a stop at the recently improved Dorset Ridge hut and Arete forks, or an ...

I'm lying upside down with my legs in the air. My pack is jammed against the slippery log I had been standing on five seconds earlier.  I stand up wincing and kicking myself for rushing. Up ahead I can hear Quentin burrowing into another thicket. The boat is only 10 minutes behind us but may as well be on the other side of Lake Te Anau. A few ...

Feb 07 Calling in at tramping mission control in Kumara, Quentin mentioned that he was doing a trip with Andrew McCrorie an ex HVTC member now living in the UK and asked if Hannah and I wanted to come.  Their plan was to cross from the Styx to the Waimakariri so Andrew could get the bus back to Christchurch and fly home.  A three passes ...

The King Country is renowned for many things.  Colin Meads, Jim Bolger, Colin Meads, umm, ....., well, uh, Coli.....  OK it's not renowned for many things and one of the many things it is not renowned for is tramping.  It is however close to Hamilton, so at Queens Birthday Alistair and Eric made the trip south and Graham and I ...

Late February saw Quentin and I roll into the Matakitaki valley looking to check out the lesser visited parts of Nelson Lakes National Park.  We stayed the night at the Nelson College facility just up the road from Mt Ella station.  It was locked but the big verandahs make for a good place to stay if you're down that way.  There ...

heyhey everyone! There's some exciting stuff going on with the tramping club in the next few weeks, so throw away those books and dust off your boots!! This weekend we're doing a Bash on Thru course- Hazel is organising it and will put some details about it up on the website soon but it's an awesome weekend of learning lots about navigation and ...

  For the trampers I'd recommend taking two cars, parking one at the little settlement just past the Mangatoetoe river (think it's called Mangatoetoe as well actually...), then driving back to Te Kopi, parking in the Pinnacles carpark then tramping over to the Washpool, Pararaki, Kawakawa and Mangatoetoe huts and out down the ...