A short hut bagging quiz to get you in the mood.  Remember 25/26 September.  Its only 3 weekends away.  Exciting.  Quiz bought to you by that kid from 6th Sense.  He'll bring you the answers once he stops seeing dead people. 1) what hut might you find Cedric the Ghost at?  POWELL 2) what hut's toilet was ...

Mesopotamia Station is a long way from nearest petrol station.  A long and winding gravel road through the high country.  Stop for sheep, wait for cows, careful on the fords.    Finally we park and get out of the car, and attempt to get changed while being buffeted by the wind screeching down from the Alps.  Around us a ...

Just to give you some ideas of the possibilities, here is the (then) news update from the last two hut bagging trips: **20th - 23rd October 2000**Quite fantastic weather for Labour weekend and the start of summer tramping. The Tararua Hut Bagging mission was a great success, 22 people headed into the hills to try and get the club logo in every ...

Work/study/life getting you down? Wanna become part of a team achieving something amazing? Got an itch to bag a Tararua hut or two? Only going to do one tramp this year? THIS IS IT When: 24-26 September 2010 Where: Everywhere in the Tararuas What: The club will try and get someone to every hut in the Tararuas that weekend It was done ...

you don't need to leave wgtn to spot some cougars.......  in fact, it's better you don't....

Did a Heels 2009 ever get published? Will it? There are punters out there keen to read it!

South Westland is many things.  Steep, green, wet, bluffy, gorged, tangled, wild, bouldery….  The list goes on.  But it is not always hot.  After our trip in February this year though, I think I will associate South Westland with hot for quite some time.  It was like Bikram yoga with less attractive companions.  The ...

Quentin, Hannah and I headed into the Victoria range just after Christmas.  This is an interesting block of mountains north of Reefton that gets very low use.  A shame, as they are fascinating and rugged country.  As with every trip over the Christmas period - ever - the forecast was average.  We started by cruising ...

awesome!  someone to carry me out when my legs fall off half way through.......

Hi all, The bulldozers are getting warmed up and JK has announded that irrespective of the consultation they are going to take land out of schedule 4 to mine.  Remember, schedule 4 is not low value conservation land, schedule 4 is the creme de la creme.  It's land even the last national government in the 1990s thought was worth ...