2005-08-17 < Weekly activities > 2005-08-31
Wednesday August 24, 2005 – Tuesday August 30, 2005
Longer Trips
Cherie Marshall led a week-long Ski Trip to TTC Lodge. There were eleven to sixteen people, including four non-members, taking part (depending on the day) and they had good skiing on all but one day. Altogether it was a good trip!
Vicki Wogan had nine members on a most enjoyable Easy trip from Kiriwhakapapa to Blue Range Hut. Vicki says the hut is excellent This was a Gourmet Trip with eating, singing, dancing and general revelry. It rained on the way in but Sunday was a lovely day.
Tim McGuinness led a ski trip to TTC Lodge with ten or thirteen members on it – depending on which day you took. They had good skiing and a good time. There were also sixteen Mountain Safety Council members up there doing a training course.
Day Trips
On Wednesday Kath Kerr had twelve members and two non-members out on her Ramble from Johnsons Hill along the tops and down to the flax clearing in Otari. At that point some members left to go home and the rest continued along the stream before climbing back to the car park on Johnsons Hill. It was a delightful day with bird song and several early lambs.
The weather on Saturday morning was not clement! The cycling trip was cancelled – though they hope to do it later in the year.
Colin Cook reports as follows on the Medium/Fit expedition: “Plan A was followed by Plan B and then by plan C which morphed into plan D and then plan E. We executed Plan F – a Sunday Holdworth-Jumbo in clear skies, a brisk sou’-wester and some snow and ice. Plans definitely outnumbered trampers – three club members.”
Peter Jagger, leading the Saturday Medium trip, also wisely decided to shift this to Sunday. His party of four members and two non-members went along the Whakanui Track to Point 586, and then south from there on a new route down into the Turere.
They then climbed up a steep side spur that met the McKerrow Ridge between McKerrow and Point 680, went down the Boys’ Brigade track to the Fire Break, and back to the end of Sunny Grove. It was a most enjoyable day, and there was considerable speculation as to which snowy peak could be seen in the distance from where the party came out on to the Fire Break.
Pat Reesby led the official Sunday trip. She had ten members and two non-members on her Easy/Medium tramp from Lowry Bay to Eastbourne. They went from Cheviot Road up to the ridge line, then over Lowry and Hawtrey, seeing lots of New Zealand mistletoe and meeting a man who had been upgrading the McKenzie Track. Some went down this track to see the work he’d done, and others down Muritai Track. Those who wished had just time to grab icecreams before the party caught the bus back to Lowry Bay – the leader and one other went on it all the way to town. Pat says it was “altogether a very pleasant day”.
There were two Family trips on Sunday as well. John Dement had nineteen members taking part in his expedition to the Hang Dog Climbing Wall, which he describes as a “great place”. There were twenty-six (two of them non-members) on Paula Carryer’s trip to the Karori Sanctuary where they too had a great day.
Altogether 106 members and 12 non-members, a total of 118 people took part in TTC activities last week.