Hacket Hut, Mount Richmond Forest Park, 8 October 2017

Leader: Pat Holland If 75mm of rain in Nelson on Saturday did not put you off, then the continuing dire weather forecast for Sunday might have. So, the seven initial punters became three brave souls professing not to mind a bit of rain. However, at...

Days track circuit, Nelson, 10 Sept 2017

Leader: David Blunt Nearly six years ago a slip destroyed the middle section of Days Track which runs between Rocks Rd and Toi Toi Street. Some thought it may never reopen again. However, at great expense it did get reinstated with an official...

Wooded Peak, Nelson, 10 Sept 2017

Leader: Barry James Although the day dawned fair, there were two of us for this excellent, but energetic, day walk. Thence by car to the Brook and we started walking at 8:45am through the Redwood grove and onto the old, classic 4WD road which now runs...

Snow Skills Day, Rainbow Ski Field, 20 Aug 2017

Leader: Debbie Hogan & David Cook This was a great day in the mountains. While the weather wasn’t perfect, the ‘newbies’ still had fun. Organised and run efficiently by tertiary tutor, Debbie Hogan, and aided by secondary teacher David Cook. The wind...

Mount Stanley (971m), Tennyson Inlet, Marlborough Sounds, 23 JUly 2017

Leader: Silvano Lorandi Promises, promises. We return to this trip with the NTC after four years. It was June 2013 when four of us ventured on this hill and discovered a reasonably well-marked track past the Nydia Saddle and a DOC research hut on the...