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Tramping Reports Wednesday 2009 Feb 25 to Tuesday 2009 Mar 03

The February trip to the Raglan Range had four members. Three glorious days weather allowed them to go through Hellfire, sidle high above Misery, and descend into the valley of the Lost. Rain trapped them in the Lost for a day and a half, after which they had to endure a purgatory of wasps. Eleven stings among three people in four hours (he who is without sin got none) and swollen rivers forced us to evacuate down the Branch valley, treading very carefully so as not to antagonise the wasps any further.

The Wednesday E/M into Belmont RP had 16 members and 2 non-members for a pleasant day, partly because John Thomson and Brian Dawkins had previously been through and cut the gorse back. There was 11 members on the BBB trip at Eastbourne and they report a nice afternoon.

The weekend trips to Tutuwai(M), Sawtooth Ridge (M/F) were cancelled owing to the weather. Bush 2 was postponed owing to the weather. The 9 members and 2 non-members on the weekend cycling trip to Waitarere had a batch for shelter. They cycled in the rain on Saturday and had fine weather Sunday.

The M/F daytrip switched to Sunday. 3 members left the Mangatarere valley in sunshine and walked to Sayers hut and back in the rain only to find that the car had been in sunshine all day.

The Sunday M trip had 6 members and 2 non-members. Slow travel among windfalls meant they did not quite have enough time to reach the summit of Mt Barton.

The leader of the Sunday family trip to Mt Kaukau forgot that the trip was supposed to run and as no-one expressed any interest in the trip it never ran. He might try again later in the month.

A total of 45 members and 6 non-members