Mid-Winter Xmas at Waiuta Lodge, West Coast, 27 July 2024.

The Hokitika Tramping Club is the newest tramping club in the country, and it came as a surprise to receive an invitation to their Mid-winter Xmas at Waiuta Lodge near Reefton. We checked Waiuta Lodge on the DOC site. It had a fully equipped kitchen...

Kirwans Track Circuit, Victoria FP, 24 Apr 2021

The weather forecast was not promising but not bad enough to cancel the trip. And so it proved – middling good on Saturday and middling bad on days 2 and 3 with squally showers from the South but some sunny patches and no wind. There were 8 starters in...

Mole Tops, Nelson Lakes NP, 30 Jan 2021

Mole (or is that "Mo-lay") tops. Graeme had gone to great lengths to optimise transport pickups with everyone first coming together at the Wakefield Bakery. So obviously food was high on the agenda. This meant lunch on the first day could be of a...