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Tramping Reports Wednesday 2010 Aug 18 to Tuesday 2010 Aug 24

Bruce Popplewell, deputising for Brenda Neill, led the Wednesday E/M trip from Parkvale Road, Karori, north along the Skyline Walk and south over British Peak, down to the valley and back over the saddle to Parkvale Road. Eleven members in perfect, if a bit windy, weather. On the way we met and chatted with Russell Pierce, the very pleasant and helpful owner of the land, who was feeding out to his cattle. The other Wednesday trip was a medium trip led by Dave Ogilvie to Gollans valley via Lowry. There was 12 members. They got a bit of rain late in the day.

There was not enough people to warrant openning the lodge during the week but 14 people were up at the lodge for the weekend. FANTASTIC skiing at Turoa on Friday and good skiing at Whakapapa on Saturday and Sunday. Sometime it pays to ignore the weather forecast...

Peggy's Saturday medium trip went up to Mt House and down to Totara Creek to find out why the leaders bushcraft Get Lost Group ended up at a side stream forks. The same thing happened and we have concluded by way of 4 compasses and 2 GPSs�that the map is wrong ie we have discovered a significant unmapped stream and the spur shown as descending all the way to Totara Creek doesn't. Quite an�interesting day. 7 members and a day spent in mist and drizzle.

5 members were on Diane Head's Sunday medium trip Marchant strm - Joe's track. All went well until 100 metres up the stream at the bottom of Puffer Track at the start of Joe's Track when one member of the party twisted her ankle very badly and could not move under her own steam (except on her bottom). So, two strong men assisted her out back to the main track (with great difficulty) and two equally capable women hoofed it to the top of the Puffer Saddle to summon help from the Ambulance service, who sent in a helicopter. Finding an access point to winch the paramedic down was a problem, but once sorted everything went like clockwork and the patient was on her way to Wellington Hospital. Please refer to report on Stuff and in the Dominion Post today.

Mary Kane's cycle trip to Hawkins Hill did not run owing to no interest.

49 members and 0 non members

Category: 2010 Trip location