On the afternoon of the 24th December I am driving from Wellington via the middle of the Island and the edge of the Waikato to the Bay of Plenty.  People who are not freaky or P-cooks are welcome to get a lift some or all of the way to wherever, so long as it's generally in the right direction. If some petrol money is included I may even make ...

In case you were wondering what to do with your brand new Cascade Pack now that it has holes in it (although apparently there is a huge back-log at the moment)...    Macpac has been brought by a company called Mouton Noir. Mouton Noir will not be providing a repair service.  The ex-Product Support Team at Macpac have started a ...

Three or four days to the Garibaldi Plateau  (5th – 13th January 2008)   Richard Davies, Quentin Duthie, Rob Holmes, Benj Ainsworth, Hannah McGregor, Hutt Valley Tramping Club   Friday   We drove from Nelson and arrived very late in Little Wanganui.  The big delay was the hour in Richmond Pak n’ Slave where we ...

Hi Terra, not sure my rough notes make a valuable post, but good to draw people's attention to the survey. Don't forget to fill one in on behalf of the club! cheers,  Hannah

The Encyclopaedia of New Zealand (Te Ara) has new pages about tramping, and VUWTC. Unfortunately, this scandalous comment is made about the club... ''Many tramping clubs have logos, and some produce stickers. The Victoria University Tramping Club (VUTC) logo is a sheep on the top of a peak. This is sometimes drawn by trampers signing the hut ...

Yes, very sad. Goodbye Mainly Tramping. You were not run by Australians, or fishers, or a kayaker, you didn't only offer discounts in the sales, your gear didn't immediately break, and you were always friendly and never tried to sell me ''ladies boots'' (for rugged places like the main street of Karori). :-(   

Slightly unrelated, but I'd encourage you all to shame each other and write trip reports about Bushball and anything remotely TC related you've been up to this year. I am finally, finally (sorry, sorry) finishing Heels 2005 and for a whole lot of trips all I've got is loads of crappy photos. Surely in between all that writing you do for your ...

On the weekend a bunch of us trundled up to the top of Ruapehu to see what we could see.  In perfect weather we made our way around from above Turoa skiifield to the crater glacier and camped on the summit plateau (the entire Taupo Cessna fleet gave us a fly-by in the morning).  We got a good view down the Whangaehu River towards ...

Just a reminder (further to Ritchie's post below) there is a rogaine on this Wednesday.  What is that you ask? Well, from 6 to 9pm you get to run around in the dark trying to figure out where you are collecting points as you go - like a treasure hunt for grown ups (warning, it sounds spack but is actually quite addictive). ...

Hey Annabel, I'd endorse Ritchie's comments. The only thing I'd add is that double kayaks are ten times better for beginners than singles. The guy who tipped on our trip was in a single - the doubles were very stable and easy to handle and even Ritchie (who makes scientists wonder whether humans actually did ...