Snow Skills Trip at Mount Robert Lodge - 7-8 Sept 2019

6.40am on Saturday: Ian is picking me up AT THE DOOR and the adventure begins. 29 people of three different clubs of the area (Nelson, Marlborough and Golden Bay clubs) will meet to train their snow skills around Mount Robert Lodge. I feel a bit...

Kirwans Hut, Victoria Forest Park - 29 Aug/1 Sept. 2019

Trip Leader: Madeleine Rohrer An early 7 am start got us going to Murchison where we enjoyed morning tea and then drove on to Capleston car park, close to Reefton. What a lovely and mild end of winter day. We followed the nice track along Topffer Creek...

Conical Hill, Hope Range, 18 Aug 2019

Kate did a great job of organising a day trip up Conical Hill in the Hope Range including arranging perfect weather, and then ended up with a nasty cold and sadly couldn’t join us. Fortunately there were enough experienced members in the group that the...

Mt Starveall, Mt Richmond FP, 29 June 2019

Human wind vane on ridge approaching Mt Starveall. Wouldn't it be a great idea (I thought) to have a tramp and stretch my legs just before embarking on a 38 hour door to door trip to the UK - an exercise in patience, and sitting down... I'd been up the...

Zampa Tops, Lewis Pass, 1 June 2019

Saturday morning, June 1 saw five people walking up the middle of State Highway 7 towards Lewis Pass. We were executing a variation of Plan B. Plan A was to traverse across the Opera Range to Anne Hut and the next day attain Henry Saddle and the Zampa...