Mid-week recreational and social walking group based in Mosgiel NZ
At least a dozen club members took advantage of the opportunity provided by the Lions Club to walk the rail track between Flat Creek and Deep Stream. We walked single-file with 360 others through two tunnels and over several viaduct/bridges. The sky was blue and the air was still. Perfect conditions.
OSH requirements had seen to a nightmare of safety warnings and precautions having to be taken by the small army of Lions Club controllers. It went well. – Ian
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The DCC letter below includes the URL to click on for the draft management plan or you can click on consultation to find your way there and go on to download a submission form if necessary.
Doesn’t appear to restrict our club’s tramps in any way, as far as I can see.
Sorry about side rotation – can’t manipulate website to align otherwise.
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8. 29/4/2009 Rollinson Road. Picnic Area. Trig Q. North Coal Creek Track. Racemans. Weir. Rain Gauge Spur. Rollinson Track. Elbow. Rollinson Road. Leaders: Ian, Glenice.
7. 17/9/2008. Access Road, Picnic area, North Coal, Raingauge Spur. Hard. Leaders: George, Ken.
6. 27/7/2005 Rollinson Road. Elbow. Rollinson Track. Turn off down to Rain Gauge Spur. Leaders: George, Dorothy S
5. 1/5/1991 Elbow – Swampy – Raceman. Steep parts. Harder. Alternate route for some. Leaders: Mary McG, Daphne, Bob, Barbara McC
3. 17/8/1994. Silverstream Weir, Raceman’s Elbow. Medium. Leaders: Bob H, Peg C, Frances, Jack R
2. 28/4/1993. Silverstream Weir, Elbow, Raceman’s Track. Two groups. Medium or Easy. Leaders: Bob H, Les W, Diana, Joan A.
1. 11/1988 Leader: Peg C
The T-Shirts have proved a great success with those who have already bought them – and with others too.
So much so, that many are willing to place further orders, even if at an increased price. – $25.00?
They come in black, grey, white and pale blue colours.
Sizes: Men: s, m, l, xl, xxl; Women: 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20.
Wendy is quite happy to accept Elaine’s offer to take further orders so …
For club T-Shirts, either email (click) or phone Elaine your order and she will see if she can get a further bulk lot – so be in. Cut-off date: Friday 20 March.
21/2/2009 RELAY FOR LIFE – in support of Colleen. Logan Park. Leaders: Peter and Wendy.
As it turned out – it rained, and the difficult conditions led to the event being shortened to 12 hours. A lack of information led to Site 20 proving difficult to find amidst the large number of teams taking part, as was the opportunity to make contributions not all that easy.
Club Members, Joyce, Dot T and Peg C were participants in the first lap of honour.
Lance, Les, Lex, Lois, Margaret, Neil, Peter, Shirley, and Wendy took part in later laps at different times. Thanks to these people for turning up and taking part in the difficult circumstances.
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This time we left the cars at Knarston Park and walked around Moturata Road to turn up Sawmill Road and through Gortons Farm, in one of whose buildings, still there, Lex and Ian recalled attending their church’s Easter Weekend retreats in the 1940s!
An email received by the Secretary this morning reveals that DOC “have cut up hundreds of metres of serviceable board walk”. Continue reading “Leith Saddle Board Walk Change”
26/11/2008 Moon, McQuilkan, Possum Hunters (now Lwr McQuilkan), (uppr) Jim Freeman, Pineapple, Nicols Leaders: Ria, Hazel
We parked Bill’s car on the south side of the Ferry bridge, walking back over it to begin the track. Continue reading “Taieri River track (true left,) downstream from Taieri Ferry Bridge”
The were only occasional signs on the Old Waitati Road of the new pipe line put in to supply Mount Grand water to Waitati, Warrington &c. We had parked the cars by the bridge just down from Leith Saddle and the 7 of us walked on down the road the considerable distance to reach Sawmill Road on our left. We made a rather belated morning tea the large open shed full of derelict bits of furniture on the margin between the cleared farm land and the bush at the foot of the track.
Climbing a bit we crossed Ferguson Creek and continue on up to reach clearer ground. Markers took us on straight ahead before striking left past a large broadleaf to reach a fence at the beginning of dense manuka. There was an initial windfall to push around before the track cleared for us and took us on up again to the next clear ground. After crossing this a little to the right, it was into flax country and then tussock that eventually veered to the left and scraped us through a small patch of heavy gorse to finally discharge us onto the open Swampy Ridge track. Its boggy patches were boggier than usual, due, we thought to last weekend’s snowfall on the area.
Eventually we reached the access track that leads around to to the Burns-Rustler intersection where we stopped for lunch. We chose the Burns Track as last week’s trampers had descended by the Rustlers, and on the way greeted some Green Hut Track Group members who were snipping the never-ending flax encroachments from the track. Through the bush lower down the drying mud had escaped the boggy-making effects of the snow we had experienced earlier. Then it was along the other pipe-line that supplies water to Sullivan’s Dam from the catchment area we had just traversed and out to the cars again. A very satisfying day. – Ian
28/4/2004 Leaders: Lex, Ian,Glenys
14/10/1992 Leaders: Ria L, Catherine, Eleanor B, Ted
No. 34 on old hardcopy list of 113 club tramps. “Leith Saddle – Swampy – Pole Track. Farm”
10/9/2008 Mornington – Southern Cemetery
Very surprised and delighted to yet again have another fine Wed. after having 2-3 days of mist and rain. A bit cloudy but fine and not too cold. Ten keen hikers parked their cars in Lees St. and set off on a very convoluted walk to get to their final destination which was the Southern Cemetery. It was up hill all the way to our morning tea stop which was the play area in the Mornington Park. After a refreshing cuppa it was off again on the ups and downs of the streets in the Maryhill/ Mornington area till we eventually got to Eglington Rd and the very top gate of the Southern Cemetery. We walked down through the area of very old graves and found a spot on a grave in the sun to sit and eat our lunch. Very peaceful and quiet. No people or traffic to disturb the peace! After lunching we strolled around among the graves, reading inscriptions where they were still legible and finding many of well known early citizens of Dunedin. Also the area where the early Chinese were buried in place that was supposed to be separate for the rest of the community.
All in all an interesting place to visit and the first time for most of the hikers there on Wed. From there it was a fairly short walk back to the cars. Everyone said how much they’d enjoyed the day. Bev.
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10/9/2008