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...

Mt Murchison, Buller District, 9 July 2017

Leader: Michele Cunningham It was a chilly winter morning when a group of 14 trampers assembled at Richmond Badminton Club. The drive to the road end took us through fog and descending temperatures, but by the time we drove through a farm just before...

Lake Sylvester Hut, Kahurangi National Park, 24-25 June 2017

Leader: Andrea Smith With falling snow and hail, the mid-winter gathering at Lake Sylvester Hut was appropriately seasonal. Seven hardy souls hunkered down for the weekend. Not to be thwarted, they donned five layers and headed out into the maelstrom....

Red Hill, Mt Richmond Forest Park, 10-12 June 2017

Leader: Pat Holland This trip was the idea of Nina Dickerhof, our visitor from Christchurch. A three-day trip was necessitated by the short winter days. Day 1: The eight of us drove to Inwoods Lookout. The road is in bad condition so we had grave fears...

Cedar Flats Hut, West Coast, 3-5 June 2017

Leader: Ray Salisbury Two cars with nine souls made the long journey from Nelson to Hokitika, revelling in the chance to explore new terrain further afield during Queens Birthday weekend. From the road-end, grassy farmland provided a decent hour’s...