Hey everyone, Easter is upon us and that means four days off and roaming about in the hills somewhere! (or two weeks for all you students out there!) This easter we shall not go to Whirinaki Forest as per the calendar, because it has been decided it is rather too far to drive just to thrash round in the bush. Instead we shall head to the ...

Hi.  It seems i have the worst timing as i'm working over the Easter break when all the other tramps and activities are on.  However, i have the first week off Monday 9th April till friday the 13th to do something if anyones keen.  Would consider anything and i have a car!!  Any takers??  

If you are still planning your Easter tramping trip- then maybe you would like to hop onto our one? I have got two non-tramping club friends coming on this tramp with me already but.....I've got  1-2 spaces left going to do part of the famously famous Southern Crossing in the Tararuas just north of Welly 6-8 April. It's not a hard trip, but ...

Hola! I've had a few (hundred) people enquiring about what exactly the plans are for Easter so here is a brief spiel of said plans: -originally (and according to the calendar) we were going to base ourselves at a Tongariro-ish location with people going climbing/tramping/doing nothing during the day then everyone amusing themselves in a big ...

The tussock ampitheatre of Marks flat is shown in this image from the slopes of the Solution range.

South Huxley biv has a log book dtaing back to 1970, there is great camping in the upper valley.

Saddle creek is a good route from the Clark to Marks flat.

In general, I consider jet-boats the cockroaches of the New Zealand river-system.   However, after twenty thrilling minutes into the lower branches of the Clark River I wanted to do the rest of the trip by jet-boat.  I almost shed a tear as the jet boat turned for home, dousing us in smoking steam.  Picking up my ...