Barnicoat Range Traverse, Nelson, 7 Jun 2021

Queen's Birthday arrived. The main club trip had been cancelled due to a dodgy forecast, which we ignored. Grant and Ray organised a car shuttle, and collected various folks in the CRV. We had a briefing at the Brook Sanctuary, where three of us...

Hartebreak Ridge, Mt Richmond FP, 20 May 2021

The club had a recce to Hartbreak ridge last year, identifying and re marking an old route. Ian has done 2 further trips in and pushed ahead with finding more of the old track and doing some track clearing. The goal for this trip was to push further...

Browning Hut, Mt Richmond FP, 16 May 2021

A planned trip to Robert Ridge Bushline hut circuit was changed on Sat evening to a trip into Browning hut because of the predicted bad weather on Robert Ridge. 6 trampers left from the Hackett car park at 9.00. We had the pleasure of being...

Saddle Hill Exploration: 18th April 2021

The Tramping Club has been wanting to assess the condition of the walking tracks around Saddle Hill/The Doubles for some time. The cancelled Starveall tramp provided the opportunity to do exactly that. There were 4 ‘starters”. Chris and Andrea road...

Baton River, Kahurangi NP, 14 Mar 2021

Baton River 14th March Only four people signed up for this trip so that meant we could all get into the track start in Rod’s 4WD van. It was a fine day with no clouds to be seen and after a 90 minute drive from Nelson we approached the Ellis River ford...