Tararua Tramping Club | TrampingReports / 2009-11-18 browse

2009-11-11 | Tramping Reports | 2009-11-25

Tramping Reports Wednesday 2009 Nov 18 to Tuesday 2009 Nov 24

Wednesday: The bad weather on Wednesday forced the 6 people of the M/F party to abandon the proposed Quoin ridge trip and do a Dobson - Smith Ck loop instead. It dried out in the afternoon. There was 5 members on the E trip to Johnson Hill-Otari. The rain stopped by lunch and turned into a good day.

Weekend: The climbing trip to the Spenser Mountains has been postponed to mid December.

The 6 member sof the Northern Crossing trip changed their plans on Friday and went to the new Atiwhakatu Hut instead. On Saturday they backtracked to Totara Flats (had a wild trip across the Wahine swing bridge), up onto Cone ridge and down to Neill Forks for the night. On Sunday we returned to the Mt Holdsworth road end. A good trip involving 19 hours of tramping.

7 members went on the E/M trip to Mt Taranaki. They got 2/3rds of the way up Fanthams Peak before the wind stopped them from reaching Syme hut. They then opted to go around the mountain to Bobs bluff and Lake Dive hut. They enjoyed themselves despite the wind.

There was 3 members on the M/F trip on Saturday. They managed a dry day in the Battery stream/Wharepapa valleys on the eastern side of the Rimutakas but the wind was something else. They report that the eastern end of the Papatahi Crossing track has recently been cut. However there is one place on the crossing from Battery strm to Wharepapa hut where the track goes up a near vertical gravel wall and the track cutters have helpfully removed every possible handhold.

The cycle trip into Ohariu valley didn't run due to lack of interest.

The Sunday m trip which was planned to go to Atiwhakatu only had 3 members so they changed to a walk up Korokoro stream instead.

The E trip to Days Bay had 6 members for a warm pleasant day as they were sheltered from the cool southwesterly which they felt on the ferry crossing.

12 people were at Waerenga at various times over the weekend to fit the new roofand add another bunk.

A total of 48 members