Category: Grading

Track grading set for trip

Mt Stuart Reserve to Mt Stuart Tunnel (Clutha Gold cycle track)

150x15005/02/2025. Mt Stuart Reserve to Mt Stuart Tunnel (Clutha Gold cycle track).  Grade 2.5 and 3 Combined.  Leaders: Clare Banks, Barbara Shackell, Sue Beal.

Thirty-seven Hikers and Trampers (plus one driver/reader) gathered at the Mt Stuart Reserve in the Manuka Gorge on a warm and windless day to tackle what, for many, was a new track – part of the Clutha Gold Cycle trail.

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Hope Hill

Hope Hill Square29/01/2025. Hope Hill. Grade 4. Trampers. Leaders: John Gardiner and Martin Hickley.
The last club tramp here was almost exactly two years ago and Diane and Marijke’s description is quite excellent, so I’ll not repeat that. Undertaken in ever warming conditions and rising afternoon winds, over exposed farmland, twelve trampers were very glad to get down to the cars some five hours after leaving.

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Mt Royal/Bobby’s Head (Tavora Reserve)

Square Phil22/01/2025. Mt Royal/Bobby’s Head (Tavora Reserve). Grade 3.5. Trampers.  Leaders: Graham Thurlow, Graeme Souter.
Parking at Tavora Reserve in the long grass on a warm summer’s day with a slight breeze we, 15 trampers, made our way up the gravel on Bobby’s Head Rd turning left onto the Goodwood Rd passing a familiar sign, “Adam Sutherland Road”. Continue reading “Mt Royal/Bobby’s Head (Tavora Reserve)”

Moeraki Millennium Track Moeraki Township to Moeraki Boulders

15Boulders Thumbnail/01/2025. Moeraki Millennium Track Moeraki Township to Moeraki Boulders. Grade 2.5. Hikers.  Leaders: Neville Griffiths and Dave Roberts.

A group of 13 hikers in 4 cars made the trip to Moeraki and met up at the car park adjacent to the public toilets in the Moeraki township.

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Takitakitoa, Wetland, Waihola Hall.

11/12/2024. Takitakitoa, Wetland, Waihola Hall. Grade 2. Combined hike and Christmas Lunch.  Leaders: Jan Butcher, Wendy Langley, John Gardiner, Graeme Souter.

Square 150This, our final event of 2024, promised to be a fitting farewell to the year’s activities, and a prelude to the Christmas cheer that awaited us all. About 50 keen hikers and trampers assembled at Peter Johnson Park. Continue reading “Takitakitoa, Wetland, Waihola Hall.”

Cleghorn St to Signal Hill Monument

4 Dec Cleghorn Street Hikers Square Photo Michael04/12/2024. Cleghorn Street to Signal Hill Monument . Grade 3. Hikers.  Leaders: Maria McNee and Peter Dodds.
Only 3 cars left from Peter Johnston car park on what was promising to be a sweltering day.

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Waihola – new cycleway/walk

4 December Waihola Trampers Square Photo John04/12/2024. Waihola – new cycleway/walk. Grade 3. Trampers.  Leaders: Heather Kirk and Jenny Wilton. We arrived at the start of the track in Waihola at 9.30 am where there is plenty of parking, toilets and lovely views of the lake.

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Around Harbour Cone

Square Intro Photo27/11/2024. Around Harbour Cone. Grade 3.  Hikers (and Trampers).  Leaders: Jenny Flack and Rhonda Wilson.
Listening to the heavy rain coming down on Tuesday night I don’t think too many of us thought we would be out hiking the next day. Continue reading “Around Harbour Cone”

Frasers Gully/Friends Hill/Wingatui Tunnel and return

20241120 115612 Thumbnail20/11/2024. Frasers Gully / Friends Hill / Wingatui Tunnel & Return. Grade 3.5. Trampers. Leaders: Anne Ward and Lyn Keene.

Our group of 19 met at Ellis Park before beginning our walk up Frasers Gully, beautiful native bush, singing birds and flowing stream.

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