November 2023 Update: Taieri Recreational Tramping Club
Hi everyone,
Running a bit late with this, but following our birthday party and AGM, a bit has been happening so here goes. Firstly ….
Welcome
Who needs marketing teams to drum up business when our reputation for visiting interesting places and walking, talking, drinking coffee and eating ice-cream is out there. So welcome to Carolyn Pridham, Heather Reid, Chris Bezett, Val Cayford, Katrina McKenzie, Lenore Armstrong, Wendy Langley, Sylvie Watt, Adrienne Ensor, Vivienne Manning, Karon Read and Jenny Wilton. We are enjoying your company.
Photo Show for 35th Birthday Celebrations
After a bit of experimentation and playing around with options Ross has placed these photos on his YouTube site and these can be accessed at https://youtube/004hkDp4xt4. On your smart device/TV they can happily be displayed to add background to a romantic dinner or showing others that we have not aged down through the years or…..
Summer Trip Programme
Thanks to everyone for your suggestions and for the teams putting the programme together. The programme is presented in two ways on the website.
- listed under “Recent Posts” – “Upcoming Trips”
- can be printed direct from the link “copy of trip programme for printing”. Due to the dynamics around trip organisation please note the “Upcoming Trips” is the most timely information.
Fuel costs have been adjusted for the summer programme and a reminder that the club will reimburse a driver for doing a recce where the fare is $10.00 and over per person times 3 = $30.00. An email to the Secretary ([email protected]) confirming the recce was done and the date will be sufficient for the reimbursement to be arranged.
There are some trips where a grading is not shown, this can be due to a variety of reasons, maybe a first time, or the exact details are not finalised until the recce is complete and the leader provides a confirmed grade for the weekly email.
One of the actions being undertaken by the Webteam is to build a master spreadsheet of all the tracks that we use/ have used. We intend to add to this list the grading of the track as well as when the walk was last undertaken. This spreadsheet will have multiple benefits, not the least being having one master rather than multiple lists to comb through when compiling upcoming trip programmes.
We have also made some small changes to the Grading document to emphasise that we are grading the track, not fitness. The grading of a track is the same regardless of which group is undertaking it. To assist in getting track profiles completed, feedback on gradings is always welcome and could be included in the feedback when write ups are completed etc.
With the ongoing changes to the contact list of members the Committee has agreed that a hard copy will not be kept with the locator beacon bag; members (and Committee) can download a copy onto their phones.
Webteam
The team met recently to review how they are operating and to discuss detail, which happily most of us don’t see, but which is critical to the functioning of the team and maintenance of the website. The eagle eyed amongst you may notice some subtle changes. Subsequently myself, Jenni Wright and John Gardiner joined the team.
It was agreed that
- a session will be run for those interested in sending in photos to the Webteam • from time to time, the master photo (Saddle Hill) on the home page be refreshed • we assess options for refreshing the website
- we assess back up options for maintenance of the more IT aspects of the website; this is quite critical as what may appear as quite easy requests or functions actually require multiple pages of instruction!
- we evaluate what information sets require passwords/be restricted or unrestricted
It was also agreed that a fourth web team member be added to the team to give more flexibility and that also we identify a back up for the Communications Officer especially in the more detailed areas of the website administration. If anyone is interested in assisting in these roles, please contact/ discuss with Ross Davies.
Kelvin Heights
Arrive Sunday 25 February 2024 – depart Friday 1 March 2024
Just a reminder to pencil this in and detail will follow in due course. This will focus on walks with no biking organised this time. Contact Anne at [email protected] if you require more information at this time.
Xmas Lunch and Walks 13th December
Pencil this one in, to be held at the North Taieri Church Hall. More information shortly. Note the first walk in 2024 is on the 17th January 2024.
Track Clearing
A separate note will follow very shortly but as mentioned the aim is to continue the work of Neil Morrison and Arthur Heenan by taking a working bee approach under the umbrella of the Green Hut Group. I have met with Arthur, Neil and Graeme Elliott from the Green Hut Group to confirm how we could assist and under what terms and conditions, as the Green Hut Group has formal arrangements with DCC and DOC. All we need now is volunteers!
Thanks everyone and looking forward to a warm dryish summer of walking.
Phil Keene 5 November
Link to President’s Update information Library for previous updates