Downie Hut - 15-16 January 2005

Downie Hut. Organiser: Grahame Harris After we failed to meet a prospective new tramper due to a communication failure, twelve people eventually set forth in three vehicles to the car park in the colossal dairying empire at the foot of the Tutaki...

Fosters Clearing/Mt Baldy - 4-5 December 2004

Fosters Clearing/Mt Baldy. Organiser: Grahame Harris This trip was wrongly graded as 2; it should have been 3, and consequently pushed one person harder than it should have. I apologise. The rest were a fine array of trampers who took it in their...

Mt Richmond - 28 November 2004

Mt Richmond. Organiser: Dan McGuire An early start saw 14 trampers at Church steps or already en route to Top Valley. Some daredevil-driving by Roger Minchin and others meant an extra hour's walk through forestry and 1,000 feet of climbing was avoided....

Richmond Hills - 28 November 2004

Richmond Hills. Organiser: Alison Nicoll Trampers: - David Neal; David Blunt; Dave Familton; David Nicoll; Ruth Hesselyn; John Olykan; Mark Graesser; Grahame Harris; Ana Christian; Alison Nicoll [organiser]. This close to home tramp began from Alison...

Lower Travers Circuit - 21 November 2004

Lower Travers Circuit. Organiser: David Nielsen Seven of us left Richmond at 7.30 am and were at Rotoiti ready just after 8.30 to be taken by Bill Butters in his boat to Coldwater Hut. Although perfectly fine, a heavy dew and a recent shower of rain,...