The trip this weekend is an easy trip to Mitre Flats where we will celebrate Christmas in style, complete with christmas food, beverages and mulled wine! There will be prizes for the best christmas dinner and best christmas beverage so get thinking about what your group could prepare for dinner on Saturday!

We will meet at the Hunter Carpark at 9am and stop at a supermarket on the way to sort out group food. We will be back home around Sunday afternoon.

Bring a small gift for Santa's sack and your normal tramping gear. You will also need to pack lunch for Saturday and Sunday, and breakfast for Sunday morning.

 We will be staying in Mitre Flats Hut in the Tararuas which is a serviced hut, so you will need either 3 hut tickets or your annual back-country hut pass. Hut tickets are availble from the DoC office on Manners Street and some outdoors stores in town.

 DoC are due to remove the gas-cooking facilities at the end of August so we will be just in time to make the most of the serviced hut.

 If you missed the meeting, or didn't get the chance to sign up you can still sign up online using the Trip Sign-up form HERE

If you have already signed up I am in the process of sorting groups so you will recieve an email from your group leader within the next day or so.

 Any questions? Email me at theelusivemailbox@gmail.com