Category: Hikers

Doctors Point, McKessar, Mopanui, Ridgeline

Road distances from Mosgiel carpark.
Access permission required for Pigeon Flat walk.
The stone-walled ruins on Mckessar Track

Doctors Point, Mopanui, McKessar, Purakanui, Osborne – Information and Trips Library

Img 9771 Thumbnail 216. 19/06/2024 Trampers – Purakanui, Mopanui and return. Grade 4.  Leaders: Graeme Souter and Heather Kirk

Sometimes It can be a bit bleak walking this time of the year. Yet there we were, 18 trampers keen to head out for a tramp from Purakanui and up Mopanui.

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Abbotsford and Environs

Chain Hills Track. Accessed from Chain Hills Road. 30 min. Tramping Track. – benched. Manager: DCC CAM and private land.

Kaikorai Estuary (1)20. 12 June 2024. Exploring Abbotsford/Fairfield. Grade 1.5. Hikers. Leaders Jan Yardley and Noi McCunn
The day started with a heavy frost – the heaviest so far this winter. We parked at the Sunnyvale Sports Ground and walked into Green Island, ably led by Noi. Continue reading “Abbotsford and Environs”

Maia to Port Chalmers

Burkes SquarePort Chalmers, Mia, Deborah Bay, Rangi Park – Information and Trips Library

2. 22/05/2024. Burkes to Port Chalmers. Hikers. Leaders Mike and Jill

I won’t take it as a personal insult that only 13 hikers turned up to join me on a walk from Maia to Port Chalmers via Sawyers Bay and back roads. I put the low turnout down to a reference to “grunty hills” in the pre walk notes. Continue reading “Maia to Port Chalmers”

Macandrew Bay, Greenacre Street

No. 6 on old hardcopy list of 113 club tramps. “Macandrew Bay. (Greenacres St). J Allen. Year Round.”
No. 74 on old hardcopy list of 113 club tramps. “Peninsula Traverse. Year Round”

Distance from car-park: 24 km.

12. 08/05/2024 Hikers. Macandrew Bay, Greenacres. Grade 2

Img 6883 Thumbnail 23 hikers set out from MacAndrew Bay heading to Company Bay stopping at the Yellow Eyed Penguin plant nursery. Continue reading “Macandrew Bay, Greenacre Street”

Frasers Gully

No. 92 on old hardcopy list of 113 club tramps. “Frasers Gully – Brockville Rd Year Round”
16 km from car park.
Frasers Gully – Information and Trips Library

Square Thumbnail32. 24/04/2024. Trampers. Frasers Road/Southern Resevoir. Grade 2.5. 16 km.  Leaders: Gwenda Farqharson/Graeme Souter

A perfect calm sunny autumn Dunedin day for our tramp greeted 17 trampers at Frasers Gully carpark. Continue reading “Frasers Gully”

Bull Ring, Ben Rudd

Location: 15 km.
Click Ben Rudd Article for background information.
Click Pineapple Track for background information.
Click Pineapple and Flagstaff walk for background information.

See Flagstaff Name for its origin.

Square 100 Great View Over The City13. 17/04/2024 Bullring/ Ben Rudd/ Flagstaff Grade 2.5 Leaders: Mike and Dave

On a cloudless but slightly chilly morning 29 hikers assembled at the Bullring carpark on Flagstaff/Whare Flat Road where Sandra, a new member of the group was introduced and welcomed by Phil.

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Chain Hills-Friends Hill Tramps

No. 102 on old hardcopy list of 113 club tramps. “Friends Hill Chain Hills Year Round”. Background information on Saddle Hill Hotel

Chain Hills, Friends Hill – Information and Trips Library

Img20240410112925 Thumbnail147. 10/04/2024 Highland Park to Friends Hill.  Grade 2.5. Leaders: Margaret Maxwell/Kay Seddon.

With nervous trepidation, Kay and I met at Peter Johnson Park to meet all you gorgeous hikers. We thought there would be about 8-16 willing participants.

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Sandymount – Sandfly Bay

No. 24 on old hardcopy list of 113 club tramps. “Lovers Leap – The Chasm – Sandfly Bay. N Strang. Farm. Year Round.” No. 73 on old hardcopy list of 113 club tramps. “Sandymount – Lovers Leap. Year Round”.
29 km from car-park.
See Sandymount for area background information.
Sandymount closed for lambing Aug-Oct. Track unformed in places, grassy, slippery when wet. (See also article on pingao planting.)

Sandymount, Sandfly Bay – Information and Trips Library

Resized Square25. 27/03/2024. Hikers.  Sandymount Grade 2.5 Leaders: Jenni and Bruce Wright
Today was all about preparedness. The elements indicated that those who ventured out were hardy souls.

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Waikouaiti: Matanaka, Beach Walk

Distance from car-park: 57.5 km.
On The Huriawa Peninsula Track (pam) Square15. 06/03/2024. Combined. Waikouaiti. Grade 2.5. $16. 57 km. Leaders: Karen McInnes/ Gail Williams, Carol Morrison/Val Cayford
A great turnout of about 26 people took part in the combined outing to Waikouaiti. Continue reading “Waikouaiti: Matanaka, Beach Walk”

Waldronville

20240214 125001 Square 10014. 14 February 2024. Hikers. Waldronville Wander. Grade 2. $5. 10km. Leaders: Phil Keene, Helen Morris.

After leaving PJ park right on time and catching up with the locals at the Estuary, 24 Hikers set out in orderly fashion back down the road towards Waldronville and crossed over into Island Park through the new gate, noting the sign ‘ no dogs allowed’. Must be to keep all the professional dog walkers out? Continue reading “Waldronville”

Heyward Point, Kaikai Beach, Whareakeake Road

No. 86 on old hardcopy list of 113 club tramps. “Heyward Point – Melville’s Farm Farm”. 40 km from car park.

Part: Tramping Track, Managed by DOC. Rest: Not during lambing Sept-Nov. Seek Permission.
20. 7 February 2024. Combined hikers and trampers. Aramoana – Heyward Point.
Aramoana Rock SmallHikers: Leaders Heather and Val Cayford

‘Pathway to the Sea” – 7th February 2024 at 8.45am on a grey overcast morning with slight drizzle 15 hikers left Peter Johnstone Park and arrived at the small coastal settlement of Aramoana at approx. 9.45am – a peaceful place with 260 permanent residences as of 27th January 2024. Continue reading “Heyward Point, Kaikai Beach, Whareakeake Road”

Tomahawk Lagoon and Nearby Tracks and Areas

Ocean Grove, also known as Tomahawk, is a suburb in the southeast of the New Zealand city of Dunedin. … The suburb was known as Tomahawk until the 1930s, the name not being a reference to the weapon, but rather possibly an anglicised form of the Māori words tomo haka, meaning “dance by a gravesite”.

No. 23 on old hardcopy list of 113 club tramps. “Karetai Rd via Monument from Lagoon. Year round.”

Distance from car-park: Tomahawk: 19 km; Smaills Beach: 22 km;  Paradise Road: 26 km.’

DCC List: 41 Peg Track. Otago Peninsula
Accessed from Oregon St. 3.5 hrs ret. Tramping track – unbenched. Managed: DCC CAM, private land.
Description – This track provides a link between Ocean Grove and Highcliff Road. Access to the track in Ocean Grove is off Oregon Street. An attractive walk around Tomahawk Lagoon then climbs through gorse and native bush. Turn right towards Soldiers Memorial through paddocks with gorse sometimes obscuring the rock walls.

  • Classification – Hard
  • Time – Approximately 45 minutes.
  • Parking – Limited at Highcliff Road. No dogs.
  • Dogs – No

Karetai, Tomahawk, Soldiers Monument, Smaills Beach, Highcliff, Buskins Tracks – Information and Trips Library

St Clair, St Kilda, Kew, Corstorphine, Ocean Grove, Tomahawk – Information and Trips Library

Boulder Beach From Top Of Highcliff Track Pam (square) (100x100)43. 06/12/2023. Trampers. North of Tomahawk. Grade 3. $7. 22km. Leaders: Esther Willis and Julie McKenzie
As hoped, the weather was kind to us, as this tramp would be wasted without being able to savour the spectacular views.

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Middlemarch Area Tramps

Information
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.

Middlemarch Area – Information and Trips Library

Sutton Salt Lake Katrina Square16. 06/12/2023. Hikers. Sutton Salt Lake – Glencreag Track. Grade 2.5. $16. 60km. Leaders: Wendy Langley/Katrina McKenzie

17 of us headed to Sutton where we walked the Sutton Lake loop. Continue reading “Middlemarch Area Tramps”