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Upcoming Trips

How to run a trip for leaders and members for leaders and trip participants and Track Grading information. See also Trip Programme Information.
Trip Programme for printing (Note: the printed trip programme is not updated – trip details may change please refer to Upcoming Trips post).
Distances and costs are for road travel from Mosgiel car park.
Trip details may change – check latest notices.
This webpage has all current updates. Last updated 07/09/2026

Summer meeting times 8.45 am to depart 9.00 am
September to end of May

Wednesday, 9 September
Trampers: Akatore Creek to Taieri Mouth. Permissions Required. Grade 3. $11. 38 km (road distance to Akatore Creek)   Livingstone Green Wetlands / Millennium Track to John Bull Creek return. Grade 3. $9. 31km (road distance to Livingstone Park) Leaders: Phil Morris, Clare Banks
Hikers:       3 Kings. Permissions Required. Grade 3. $6. 20 km (road distance to Heenan Road) Leaders: Jan Palmer, Wendy Langley

Wednesday, 16 September
Trampers: Split Rock / Māori Point. Permissions Required. Grade 3. $13. 45 km (road distance to Truby King Reserve) Gold Miners Direct/Possum Hut/Eucalypt Spur/Hightop. Grade 4 $12. 42 km (road distance to Mountain Road carpark) Leaders: Sandy Webb, Alison Evans.
Hikers:      Harwood Area. Grade 2. $10. 36 km (road distance to Harwood) Leaders: Raewyn Keene, Cathy Ferguson

 

Wednesday, 23 September
Trampers:  Cloud Forest / Sullivans Dam environs. Grade 3. $7. 22 km (road distance to Cowan Road) Leaders: John Gardiner, Gwenda Farquharson
Hikers:         Long Ridge Road return. Grade 2. $5. 12 km (road distance to old Whare Flat school) Leaders: Julie McKenzie, Katrina McKenzie

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Government Track to Pylons and Return

IMG 3584 thumbnail19/08/2026. Trip Government Track to Pylons and Return. Grade 4. Trampers.  Leaders: John Barratt and Graeme Souter.

It was a chilly start (8 degrees Celsius) that greeted 19 walkers at the carpark next to the Waipori River.

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Moeraki Millennium Track/Moeraki township to boulders

Square12/08/2026. Moeraki Millennium Track/ Moeraki township to boulders.   Grade 2. Hikers.  Leaders: Pauline Thwaites and Paul Coffey.
Ten hikers arrived at the Moeraki Beach Reserve where we were joined by 2 others. Conditions very different from reconnoitre the week before.

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Silverstream Walk

5 Aug Silverstream combined Square photo Photo & caption Helen05/08/2026. Memorial Park to Confluence of the Silverstream and Taieri River. Grade 2. Combined.  Leaders: Barbara Shackell and Sandy Lawn.
Following the Antarctic-like weather that hit Otago overnight on Monday 3 August, an early call was made to postpone the trip to Puketapu, with an intent to substitute with a walk down the Silverstream to its confluence with the Taieri River.

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Camp Road and Greenacres

IMG 4804 thumbnail29/07/2026. Camp Road and Greenacres. Grade 3. Trampers.  Leaders: Gail Williams and Yan Campbell.

The weather gods were certainly co-operative on Wednesday when 28 of us set off from Macandrew Bay towards Company Bay on our way to Larnach Castle.

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Lawsons Farm

Square22/07/2026. Lawsons Farm. Grade 3. Trampers.  Leaders: Graham and Carol Thurlow.
Twenty trampers started off from Mosgiel and Dunedin to begin a spectacular winter day and an 8.5km tramp on Lawsons farm which is situated at Merton on the top of the Kilmog. Continue reading “Lawsons Farm”

Memorial Park, Mosgiel and return

Square22/07/2026. Memorial Park, Mosgiel and return. Grade 1. Hikers. Leaders: Shirley and Noel McRandle. 
38 hikers left Memorial Park on a pleasant morning and walked along the banks of the Silverstream. Continue reading “Memorial Park, Mosgiel and return”

The Pyramids, Victory Beach

Final square15/07/2026. The Pyramids, Victory Beach. Grade 2. Hikers.  Leaders: Rhonda Wilson, Jenny Flack.
On an overcast but pleasant morning we arrived at the Papanui Inlet at low tide, enabling us to be able to start our hike crossing the saltmarsh area on the side of the lagoon, heading towards Victory Beach. Continue reading “The Pyramids, Victory Beach”