TAIERI RECREATIONAL TRAMPING CLUB
ANNUAL REPORT
FOR YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2010
This is my first annual report (for what I have been informed is a two year term !!).
Sadly the year was marred by the deaths of two members, Mgaire Moir in March and Peg Allison in May.
Otherwise, and apart from adverse weather from time to time, causing two cancellations, I found the past year has been a good one and I trust most active members will agree with me that sharing together the same walking experiences continues to be an enjoyable pastime.
Total membership at end of 30 June was 72.
Compiled from weekly attendance records, the following stats. reveal no surprises but confirm impressions gained in noting the number of cars and passengers in each group as they leave the car park Wednesday mornings:
| Yrs: | 2008 – 9 | 2009 – 10 | ||
| Average Number of Trampers | 7 | 5 | ||
| Average Number of Hikers | 12 | 14 | ||
| Average Number of Ramblers | 3 | 3 |
Activity during the year included:
- Day bus trip for 34 members to Gabriel’s Gully/Otago Dam in October 2009.
- Albert Town Camp in April with 25 participants. I believe that there are still a number of good walks in that area should be consider it again in the future – always provided we can muster a sufficient number of members.
- A unforgettable rail trail t ralmp for 24 members: Millers Flat/Horseshoe Bend to Beaumont. Again, numbers were borderline for the (increasing) cost of bus charter, but I fell that should not stop us at least discussing another day trip.
- The Christmas lunch and walk at Aramoana. 23 members turned out. The walk was somewhat spoilt by the bad weather, but the day was saved by the lunch and Bruce Spittle’s excellent entertainment.
- Mid Winters lunch at Logie’s Restaurant/Royal Tavern, Grn. Is. for 49. And again popular entertainment, preceded by a walk to Tunnel Beach.
- Two ‘resurrected’ tramps from earlier programmes – Government Track, returning Kowhai Spur, last tramped 1991, and Green Point, last tramped 1995.
- And a first, the exploration of new DCC routes around Harbour Cone.
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