Taieri Recreational Tramping Club
Mid-week recreational and social walking group based in Mosgiel NZ
9. 17 /4/2024. Trampers Rosella Ridge. Grade 5.5 Leaders: Ross and NeilNo. 99 on old hardcopy list of 113 club tramps. “Mt Charles Mr Neil Farm”.
27 km from car-park.
Click here to read about Cape Saunders Lighthouse and the two graves
Mt Charles, Cape Saunders – Information and Trips Library
12. 10/4/2024 Mt Charles Grade 4 Leaders: Graham and Carol Thurlow
28 trampers gathered at Allan’s Beach. Continue reading “Mt Charles, Cape Saunders, Puddingstone Rock, Allans Beach”
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.)
25. 27/03/2024. Hikers. Sandymount Grade 2.5 Leaders: Jenni and Bruce Wright
I’ve always regarded myself as, and indeed endeavoured to be, an optimist. But on Tuesday night, I had serious doubts that Wednesday’s tramp would proceed. That night seemed to leave little room for optimism. A Wednesday morning early dog walk gave a glimmer of hope, that the weather, although unpredictable, might be improving. Seventeen ‘optimistic’ trampers took part on the Split Rock tramp.
20. 20/03/2024. Hikers. Broad Bay Future Forest (New Hike), Grade 2.5. 30 km. Leaders: Jenny Flack, Vivienne Manning.
Twenty hikers gathered at the end of Bacon St for this new walk. Continue reading “Harbour Cone, Broad Bay, Turnbulls Bay, Bacon Street”
17. 13/03/2024. Trampers. Carey’s Creek, Rongomai, Honeycomb Tracks. Grade 3.5. $11. 39km. Leaders: Pam Cocks, Graeme Souter.Continue reading “Evansdale, Careys Creek, Honeycomb, Rongomai”
15. 06/03/2024. Combined. Waikouaiti. Grade 2.5. $16. 57 km. Leaders: Karen McInnes/ Gail Williams, Carol Morrison/Val Cayford
13 trampers had a “Rock Day” beginning with rock music at Peter Johnson Park where athletic sports were about to start.No. 30 on old hardcopy list of 113 club tramps. “Woodside Glen to Maungatuas. E Blackburn, D McEwan. Summer”
Short and long options. (Maungatua climb fairly steep. 5-7 hours. Heavy tussock on top. Route only. Manager: DOC.)
Woodside Glen, Maungatuas – Information and Trips Library
18. 14/2/2024. Trampers. Maungatua Option. Leaders Lyn Keene, Anne Ward and Di Bezett
Travel Distance 40ks, Grade: 3.5, Altitude gain: 711 metres. Total distance: 15.64 ks.
The day dawned to reveal blue skies and temperatures were predicated to be between 28-29 degrees. Continue reading “Woodside Glen, plus to top of Maungatuas”
This page of club tramps and hikes on the Otago Peninsula groups together trips to Boulder Beach from Macandrew Bay (Greenacres St), Braidwood Road. These trips will often include the Paradise, Buskins, Highcliff Tracks.
Background Information:
Road distances from Mosgiel carpark.
TRTC Grading Information – trips incorporating these tracks are generally given a TRTC grading of about 3. This is indicative only, as trips can be allocated a higher or lesser grading depending on the route taken. For more detailed analysis refer to Grading Information.
Access to Boulder Beach is closed to the public for penguins breeding (November – February). Other tracks remain open year round.
(1) From Macandrew Bay proceed up Greenacres St / Track which exits onto Highcliff Road. Turn right onto Highcliff Road and proceed to the start of Paradise Track. This track will take you to Boulder Beach.
(2) Proceed along Highcliff Road and turn left (past Pukehiki) onto Seal Point Road. Follow this road and turn right onto Braidwood Road. At the end of this road is Highcliff Track. Follow this track through the dunes to the junction with Paradise Track then right to Boulder Beach.
10/06/2026. Boulder Beach. Grade 3. Trampers. . Leaders: Pam Cocks and Gail Williams.
Boulder Beach (2024 – 1991) 18 trips – 6 with reports and photos, 2 with photos only, 11 with no reports or photos.
No. 86 on old hardcopy list of 113 club tramps. “Heyward Point – Melville’s Farm Farm”. 40 km from car park.
Hikers: 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”
30 km from car-park. No permission needed to reservoir. Cedar Farm: Seek Permission DCC Forestry.
Mihiwaka, Mount Kettle, Cedar Farm – Information and Trips Library
11 trampers left PJ Park at 8.45 and meet up with 5 Dunedin trampers on Borlases’s Road, Port Chalmers. We continued onto Blueskin road in misty weather which got thicker as we drove up to park 1km north from Cedar Farm Forest carpark (CFF) A car was left at CFF carpark to ferry drivers back to their cars at the end of tramp. Continue reading “Mihiwaka, Mount Kettle, and Cedar Farm”
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.
St Clair, St Kilda, Kew, Corstorphine, Ocean Grove, Tomahawk – Information and Trips Library
43. 06/12/2023. Trampers. North of Tomahawk. Grade 3. $7. 22km. Leaders: Esther Willis and Julie McKenzieContinue reading “Tomahawk Lagoon and Nearby Tracks and Areas”
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
16. 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”
18. 22/11/2023.Hikers. Millennium Track from Henley Ferry Bridge. Grade 3. 27km. Leaders: Ady Whitson/Bruce Wright.
We had a great day on the track. Weather was great with 20 Hikers enjoying the day. We parked about 2/3 the way down the road from the stile. Continue reading “Taieri Ferry and Finlayson Roads, Bells Farm, Kennedys, Millenium.”