Mt Arthur via Clouston mine circuit, Kahurangi NP, 25 Feb 2024

Six happy trampers alighted at Flora Carpark to be greeted by a fine day with a gentle breeze, and left at 0850. At Flora Saddle 5 of us bade farewell to Jane, who was taking the direct route to the summit of Mount Arthur. We continued down Flora...

Lower Travers Loop, Nelson Lakes NP, 18 Feb 2024

We left the Badminton club at 8 am and arrived at Kerr Bay nice and early – in fact early enough for us to take an earlier slot with the water taxi as another group was running late. We were at Coldwater hut at 9:50 which gave us heaps of time to have...

Lake Angelus loop, side trip option Angelus Peak, speed tramp, Nelson lakes NP, 14 Dec 2023

Aka “Not so-speedy” day-trip to Angelus peak Once again 3 whippersnappers dusted off their running shoes for a quick daytrip in NLNP. This time the objective was Angelus Peak, hopefully to see off unfinished business from an attempt on 1 March 2009...

Speed tramp Nelson Lakes NP, 11 Nov. 2023

Three fit and keen young trampers (average age just above 70) got underway from Richmond at 0815, bound for Mt Robert carpark to tackle the Mt Robert Loop - up Pinchgut, down Paddy’s Track, and a short section of road back to the carpark. Wind was...

Ben Nevis, Mt. Richmond FP, 4th Nov 2023

Time and time again Ben Nevis! Goodness me…. It was 1983 and we were walking up this well-trodden track in a blizzard. A stream of people trekking up this mountain at the western end of the Grampian Mountains in the Highland region of Lochaber in...