Author: Graeme

Wakari, Roslyn, Mornington, Kaikorai – Information and Trips Library

Scope:

This page of club tramps and hikes in the Dunedin Central City area groups together trips incorporating Roslyn, Mornington, Wakari, Highgate, Kaikorai and surrounds.

Background Information:

Road distances from Mosgiel carpark.

Links to tramps and hikes in this area:

25/09/2024. Wakari / Kaikorai Loop. Hikers Leaders: Jenny Finnerty and Ady Whitson

Street Walk: Roslyn and Kaikorai. 2023 – 1998 (3 trips, 1 with report and photos)
Mornington Ramble. 2023 – 2008 (7 trips, with reports, 6 with photos)
Mornington – Southern Cemetery. 2008 (1 trip with report)
Street Walk: Wakari. 2008 (1 trip with report and photos)

 

 

 

Rosella Ridge – Information and Trips Library

Scope:

This page of club tramps and hikes in the Silver Peaks area groups together trips to Rosella Ridge.

Background Information:

Road distances from Mosgiel carpark.

Links to tramps and hikes in this area:

Rosella Ridge. 2024 – 1992 (9 trips, 8 with reports and photos)

 

 

 

Raingauge Spur – Information and Trips Library

Scope:

This page of club tramps and hikes in the Silver Peaks area groups together those trips on the Raingauge Spur. (map)

Background Information:

Road distances from Mosgiel carpark.

Access to the Raingauge Spur can be made via Rollinsons Road which will require a key to the gate approx. 2 km’s from the “Elbow” where the track starts. A key is currently held by the clubs President.

Links to tramps and hikes in this area:

18/09/2024  Raingauge Ridge – Steve Amies. Grade 4.5. Trampers.  Leaders: Neil Hodgkin and Sarah McCormack.

Rain Gauge Spur via Picnic area, Nth Coal, Racemans. 2009 – 1998 (8 trips, 1 with a report, 1 with photos only, 6 with no reports / photos)

 

 

 

 

Pulpit Rock – Information and Trips Library

Scope:

This page of club tramps and hikes in the Silver Peaks area groups together trips to Pulpit Rock. (map)

Background Information:

Road distances from Mosgiel carpark.
Silver Peaks Forest for background information.

How To Get There:

There are any number of tracks within the Silver Peaks that will reach Pulpit Rock. Arguably the most common way is via the Possum Hut track.

Proceed via the Northern motorway to Waitati and turn left onto Double Hill Road (just past the store on the left at the end of the motorway), which joins Semple Road where there is several access points to the Possum Hut track.

Links to tramps and hikes in this area:

Green Hut, Pulpit Rock. 2023 – 1988 (10 trips with reports and photos, 13 with no reports).
Shuttle: Mountain Road, Pulpit Rock, Long/Powder Ridges, Whare Flat. 2019 – 1998 (3 trips with 1 report and photos, 2 trips with no reports)

 

 

Sinclair Wetlands – Information and Trips Library

Scope:

This page of club tramps and hikes in the area West via SH87 (Maungatua, Waipori River, Berwick) groups together trips to the Sinclair Wetlands (map)

Background Information:

Road distances from Mosgiel carpark.
Official Sinclair Wetlands website.
Hori Sinclair and his wetlands’origin(1st paragraph only, of treatise linking its surrounds prehistorically with Kai Point Coal Mine)

Links to tramps and hikes in this area:

Sinclair Wetlands. 2024 – 1990 (5 trips with 4 reports)

 

 

 

 

Frasers Gully – Information and Trips Library

Scope:

This page of club tramps and hikes in the Central City area groups together trips from Frasers Gully Reserve, incorporating Friends Hill to Wingatui Racecourse including the Wingatui Tunnel. (map)

Background Information:

Road distances from Mosgiel carpark.

Links to tramps and hikes in this area:

20/11/2024. Frasers Gully / Friends Hill / Wingatui Tunnel & Return. Trampers. Leaders: Anne Ward and Lyn Keene.

09/10/2024. Fraser’s Gully. Hikers. Leaders Helen Morris and Heather Reid.

Frasers Gully. 2024 – 1989 (32 trips with 11 reports, 1 with photos only and 20 with no reports)

Bethunes Gully, Forrester Park – Information and Trips Library

Scope:

This pages of club tramps and hikes in the Opoho, North East Vally, North Road area groups together trips to Bethunes Gully and Forrester Park. (map)

Background Information:

Road distances from Mosgiel carpark.
Mount Cargill history
Opposite Brown House corner is an RSA Memorial to First World War servicemen and the old Junction School. (General Information)

Links to tramps and hikes in this area:

12/02/2025. Mt Cargill / Forrester Park Grade 3. Hikers.  Leaders: Bill Cubitt and Peter Beal.

Bethunes Gully, Mt Cargill, Buttars Peak, Organ Pipes, Old Main North Road, Brown House Corner, Norwood Street, Bethunes Gully. 2023 – 1990 (27 trips with 10 reports, 17 with no reports)

 

 

 

Waldronville, Blackhead, Kaikorai Estuary – Information and Trips Library

Scope:

This page of club tramps and hikes in the South Coast area groups together trips to Waldronville and incorporates Blackhead, Kaikorai Estuary, Ocean View and Brighton. (map)

Background Information:

Road distances from Mosgiel carpark.

Links to tramps and hikes in this area:

Waldronville 2024 – 2003 (14 trips, 10 with reports, 4 no reports or photos)
Beach Walk, Blackhead, Kaikorai Estuary, Ocean View, Brighton Tramps. 2009 – 2004 (6 trips, 2 with reports, 1 with photos only)

 

 

 

Cleghorn Street, Signal Hill – Information and Trips Library

Scope:

This page of club tramps and hikes in the Opoho, North East Valley, North Road area (Dunedin City) groups together tramps to Cleghorn Street, Signal Hill area.(map)

Background Information:

Road distances from Mosgiel carpark.

How To Get There:
Follow Old Main North Road to Cleghorn Street which has the best view of the harbour. Walkway sign.
Walk starts starts at the gate on right, up McGregors Hill. Beyond stile Pine plantation on 3rd stile at summit.
Gravel road 10 minutes to end. Locked gate. Last stile. Signal Hill road.
Links to tramps and hikes in this area:

04/12/2024. Cleghorn Street to Signal Hill Monument. Hikers.  Leaders: Maria McNee and Peter Dodds.

13/11/2024.  Chingford Park, Cleghorn Street, Opoho Circuit. Trampers.  Leaders: Ross and Wyn Davies.

Signal Hill Tramps. 2023 – 1992 (19 trips with 5 reports, 4 with photos only, 10 with no reports or photos)
Signal Hill Centennial Memorial, Ravensbourne, Big Easy. 2023 – 1998 (24 trips with 7 reports, 2  with photos only and 15 with no report or photos). See reports dated 18/5/2022 and 24/11/2021 for reference to Cleghorn Street.

 

 

 

Middlemarch Area – Information and Trips Library

Scope:

This page of club tramps and hikes in the area West SH87  groups together trips to the Middlemarch area including Shannon and Sutton. (map)

Background Information:

Road distances from Mosgiel carpark.

Rock and Pillar via Six Mile Creek This climbs 1,005 m. (3300 feet) up the eastern face from Glencreag Station up a leading ridge south of Six Mile Creek. This is the most direct approach.
Rock and Pillar via spur south of Lug Creek. Information: Climbs 910 m. (3000 feet) up the eastern face of a well-graded vehicle track up a leading spur south of Lug Creek. Average time to Leaning Lodge is 3 hours on foot.
DoC access. 9.5km north of the Middlemarch store on SH87, just before Lug Creek, is a farm entrance (RAPID 7219 – no DoC sign). A short way up the driveway is a DoC car park. There is public access up the vehicle track to the conservation area boundary. The track is now a recreation reserve administered by DoC.
Easiest route to Big Hut from Leaning Lodge (foot only – unmarked – good visibility essential) is another 45+ minutes climbing gently southwards to cross a steep gully and then climb a gentle shelf to above the eastern basins. Sidle several hundred metres past the lower prominent rock tors before gently descending to Big Hut once it becomes visible. Route very wind and cloud-prone. Ice axe and crampons may be necessary to traverse steep snow slopes near Leaning Lodge.
64 km to Middlemarch. 66 km to Stonehurst Track.
Redan Crater- contact for access Ken Rennick.

How to Get There:

Stonehurst Track – take SH87 to Sutton / Middlemarch. Just over the rail line at Sutton turn left onto McHardy Road then right onto Gladbrook Road. Start of track is about 1 km on left on Gladbrook Road – see DOC sign post.

Sutton Salt Lake – take SH87 to Suttom / Middlemarch. Turn left onto Kidds Road (before rail crossing). Sutton Salt Lake Reserve is approx 2.5km from turn off on the left.

Links to tramps and hikes in this area:

26/02/2025 Stonehurst Track. Grade 4. Trampers.  Leaders: Jill Reid, Sylvie Watt.

Middlemarch Area Tramps. 2023 – 1988 (16 trips with 13 reports, 1 with photos only, 2 no reports)
Jones Property, Matarae. 2022 (1 trip with 1 report)
Shannons Farm Walk. 2023 – 2020 (3 trips with 3 reports)

Portobello – Information and Trips Library

Scope:

This page of club tramps and hikes on the Otago Peninsula groups together trips to Portobello. (map)

Background Information:

Road distances from Mosgiel carpark.

Links to tramps and hikes in this area:

19/02/2025. Hereweka Road / Portobello . Grade 3.5. Trampers.  Leaders: Di Bezett, Lyn Keene.

Portobello, Clarks, Sheppards, McArthny, Varleys Hills. 2023 – 2008 (13 trips with 10 reports, plus 2 with photos only)
Portobello, Hatchery Road, Quarantine Point. 2022 – 2005 (10 trips with 2 reports plus 3 with photos only)

 

 

Quarantine Island – Information and Trips Library

Scope:

This page of club tramps and hikes to the West Harbour area groups together trips to Quarantine Island. (map)

Background Information:

Road distances from Mosgiel carpark.

General Information:
Wikipedia entry on Quarantine Island
And here is the St Martin Island Community web page. Click the photo at the bottom to see original buildings!
Quarantine Island: Botanical Report

Links to tramps and hikes in this area:

Quarantine/St Martins Island. 2023 – 1997 (5 trips with 3 reports)

 

 

 

 

Lake Mahinerangi Farm Tramps – Information and Trips Library

Scope:

This page of club tramps and hikes in the area West via SH87 (inland on the south side of SH87) groups together trips on farms in the Lake Mahinerangi area.

Background Information:

Road distances from Mosgiel carpark.

Lake Mahinerangi and Waipori (General Information)

Links to tramps and hikes in this area:

Mahinerangi Farm Tramps. 2024 – 2011 (6 trips with 6 reports – 1 with photos only)
Mahinerangi Wind Farm. 2019 – 2011 (2 reports – photos only)
Lake Mahinerangi, Verterburn Road, Picnic Place. (6 trips, no reports)

 

 

Post Office Creek, Reid’s / Beatties Farms (Verterburn) – Information and Trips Library

Scope:

This page of club tramps and hikes in the area West via SH87 (inland on the south side of SH87) groups together trips to Post Office Creek, Reid’s and Beatties Farms (Verterburn). (maps)

Background Information:

Road distances from Mosgiel carpark.

Access Permissions  may be required depending on how Post Office Creek track is accessed. Permissions must be obtained for those trips venturing onto either Reid and/or Beattie farms – refer guidelines

How To Get There:

(1) Access via Reid’s / Beatties Farms (Verterburn)

Turn left of Lee Steam Outram Road (SH87) onto Mahinerangi Road. Follow this to the junction and turn right onto Kowhai Spur Road. This brings you to Verterburn and access to Post Office Creek at Lake Mahinerangi.

(2) Access via forestry walk – Lake Mahinerangi

Take the Waiporai Falls Road (off Maungatua Road) to the power station at Lake Mahinerangi. Cross over bridge below the power station and follow the unnamed road to the forest access and Post Office Creek track.

Links to tramps and hikes in this area:

19/03/2025. Post Office Creek via Reid Farm. Grade 3.5. Hikers.  Leaders: Bruce Spittle and Dave Roberts.

Post Office Creek, Reid’s Station. 2022 -1992 (18 trips with 7 reports including 1 with photos only)