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Tramping Reports Wednesday 2008 Oct 29 to Tuesday 2008 Nov 4

The Wednesday M/F trip went up the TL branch of the Waitohu stream and down the TR branch for a largely rain free 10 hour day. The Wednesday cycle trip did not run owing to gale force winds.

2 members went climbing on Mt Taranaki. They wisely did nothing on Saturday but Sunday was great climbing conditions. A work party to Field hut got lots done and celebrated the huts 77th birthday in style. The hut got a good clean inside and out, but the battle with rats and mice continues.

The Saturday trip to visit the new South Ohau hut wisely chose not to go owing to swollen rivers and torrential rain.

The four members of the M/F daytrip switched to Sunday and had gorgeous weather in the Waiotauru valley. Wet conditions under foot, slips, supplejack and geographical confusion among logging roads forced them too cut the corners from the intended trip. The track from Otaki forks to Pukeatua is in good condition at the moment.

The Sunday medium Walls Whare-Reeves circuit trip started with 9 members and 1 non-member, although two quickly pulled out owing to illness. Crossing Coal strm was fun. They report that the trail from Reeves to the Cone track has been recently marked and cut.

The Sunday cycle trip from Spicer Park to Ohariu valley started with 8 members and 2 non-members but shed a few during the return leg. It was a new route for most of them.

Total 29members and 3 non members