Taieri Recreational Tramping Club
Mid-week recreational and social walking group based in Mosgiel NZ
10 km from car park. Waldronville, Blackhead, Kaikorai Estuary – Information and Trips Library 14. 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 … Continue reading “Waldronville”
Lake Mahinerangi. From Eldorado Track, Cox’s Reef, Cosmopolitan battery, Timber Gully Waterfalls, old gold workings. (data lacking) No. 8 on old hardcopy list of 113 club tramps. “Ship & Anchor. Lake Mahinerangi. George. Year round.” No. 3 on old hardcopy list of 113 club tramps. “Eldorado Track. (Waipori.) Year Round.” 50 km from car-park. ( 54 km … Continue reading “Ship at Anchor, Lammermoors, Deep Stream, Gold tailings, Mahinerangi”
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”. … Continue reading “Tomahawk Lagoon and Nearby Tracks and Areas”
Distance from PJP car park 48km. Middlemarch Area – Information and Trips Library 3. 25/10/2023. Trampers. Cairn Valley/Shannon, Grade 3, 48km. Leaders: Heather Kirk, Diane Paterson. Lovely sunshine greeted 30 keen trampers for a good day’s walk on Cairnvalley Farm Shannon. Strath Taieri offers something different in scenery with tussock hills, huge rock formations and … Continue reading “Shannons Farm Walk”
No. 87 on old hardcopy list of 113 club tramps. “Michelle’s Farm Outram Farm”. 11 km from car park. Park under Outram Bridge. Contacts: Seek 3 permissions. Proceed east side of Taieri River along gravel road to gravel pit. Bear right uphill to power lines. Follow generally along grass farm tracks to top of hill. … Continue reading “Nicols Farm (formerly Michelles Farm), North Side Taieri River, Outram”
No. 83 on old hardcopy list of 113 club tramps. “McNally Track, Milton. Year Round” Potential for Combined trip. McNally’s Walkway, Milton – Information and Trips Library 20. 28/06/2023. Trampers. McNally’s Walkway. Grade 2.5. Leaders: Graeme Souter, Yan Campbell Hopefully, Constable Tom McNally would have appreciated that 17 hardy trampers weren’t deterred from following the walkway … Continue reading “McNally Walkway”
No. 78 on old hardcopy list of 113 club tramps. “Knarston Park Sth Coast (Ask Jean Young) Farm” Location: 31.5 km. Millennium Track from Taieri Mouth – Information and Trips Library 15. 29/3/2023. Millennium Track, Taieri Mouth. Leaders Dave and Mike I seriously questioned my sanity on the drive from sub tropical Port Chalmers to … Continue reading “Taieri Mouth – Inc Millennium, Moturata Island, Akatore, Alanton Block”
Click Dunedin’s Hills’ History for background Information. 30 km from car park. Port Chalmers, Mia, Deborah Bay, Rangi Park – Information and Trips Library 24. 31/08/2022 Hikers. Port Chalmers. Leaders: Michael Webb and Bruce Wright M. On a typically beautiful Port Chalmers day with no hint of Mosgiel type frost, 32 hikers met at the Back Beach car … Continue reading “Port Chalmers and environs”
1. 29/06/2022. Invermay/Silverstream (combined trampers and hikers). Leaders Grant and Barbara We saw our names listed on the upcoming trips beside the Invermay walkway. As we both had spent most of our working careers at Invermay (80+ years between us), we used some institutional knowledge to make our plans. Our recce for this adventure was … Continue reading “Invermay/Silverstream”
No. 26 on old hardcopy list of 113 club tramps. “Wesleydale – Maungatua – via 3 Kings. L Wiffen. Year round.” Abt 25 km from car park. Heenan Road to the Maungatuas and the Three Kings – Information and Trips Library 26. 10/11/2021. Three Kings – Heenan Road. M. Leaders: Cathy Ferguson and Sue Nichol 18 … Continue reading “Tramps Incorporating Three Kings”
Big Easy, Signal Hill, Ravensbourne, Opoho, Northern Cemetery – Information and Trips Library Botanic Garden, Chingford Park, University Walkways, Woodhaugh Gardens – Information and Trips Library Post 25. 29 September 2021. Hikers. Otago Museum and the Fashion FWD Exhibition and a Springtime Walk. M. $5.00. Leaders: Jenny Finnerty, Noi McCunn On Wednesday 19 hikers set … Continue reading “Botanic Garden, Logan Park, Northern Cemetery, Chingford, Big Easy”
With tramping off-limits because it was the first day of the COVID-19 lockdown for August 2021, we decided a pictorial record of some members activities might be interesting. These photos were taken by members between noon on Wednesday 18th August and noon on Thursday 19th August. Some were taken during the limited exercise opportinities available. … Continue reading “Coping With COVID-19 Lockdown – August 2021”
Distance from car-park: 20 km. Botanic Garden, Chingford Park, University Walkways, Woodhaugh Gardens – Information and Trips Library Post 7. 24/2/2021. Hikers. Chingford Park. Leaders John and Dave Roberts On a balmy overcast Dunedin morning, 23 hikers met at the Dunedin Botanic Garden top car park. From here we walked across Lovelock Ave onto the … Continue reading “Chingford Park, Quarry”
A short history follows The first general meeting of the Taieri Recreational Tramping Club proper was held on Thursday 4 March, 1988 but its beginnings were ripening over the previous year. When Daphne McEwan retired in 1986 she was looking for a new challenge along the line of a walking or tramping group. She first … Continue reading “Club History”
No. 4 on old hardcopy list of 113 club tramps. “Blacksmiths Flat. Hindon Stn. Bob Heenan. Farm. Lambing.” No. 14 on old hardcopy list of 113 club tramps. “Hindon. Ardachy to River. D Graham. Haggie. Farm.” Distance from carpark: 33 km. 13. 31/5/2017. Trampers. Ardachys – Blacksmith Flat. M. Leader: Arthur. The weather wasn’t great, but … Continue reading “Ardachys – Blacksmith Flat”