Trip intentions

Join us for the biggest rave of the year! 

We will have a lineup of DJs, some incredible beats, and your fantastic dance moves! All in the bush! This is an overnight event, but no tramping is involved; we will drive to a campsite (location to be revealed), set up tents, and then party! We will camp overnight in tents/flys. 

Theme

This year's theme is SPOOKY FOREST. Come dressed in your spookiest outfit!

When?

Meet at 2 pm on Saturday the 31st of October at the Hunter Carpark outside the gear shed. Everyone must be there by 2:30pm!

On Sunday the 1st of November, the bus will pick us up at 11am and have us back at uni around 12pm.

Where?

The Bush Rave will be somewhere in the bush, within an hour's drive of Welly! The location will be revealed via email to everyone with a ticket the day before. 

Transport

We are hiring a bus to transport the majority of people, but we will also need some drivers. If you can bring a car, please let us know; you will be reimbursed for fuel.

What you need to bring:

• Your Fabulous Costume!

• Your dinner, breakfast, and plenty of snacks! 

• Your beverage of choice - no glass please

• Tent (Bring your own or find a spot under one of the club's flies)

• Pack + Pack liner/drybags

• Raincoat

• Headtorch + spare batteries

• Boots + socks

• Shorts + teeshirt not cotton

• Fleece/wool jumper not cotton

• Thermal top and bottom

• Warm hat, gloves and neck gaiter

• Sunhat + sunscreen

• 1L+ water bottle

• Personal first aid kit + personal medication

• Toilet paper + hand sanitizer

• Sleeping bag

•  Sleeping mat

• Toothbrush + toiletries

•  Bowl, mug and cutlery

It will get cold! Please bring plenty of warm clothes!

If you need to borrow any gear, eg sleeping bag/sleeping mat, please get in touch with the gear custodians: https://www.instagram.com/vuwtc_gear/ 

You must be a club member to borrow gear. Gear can be collected on Saturday before we get on the bus, please come at least 15mins early (1:45 pm) to get this sorted.

POSTPONED - dates now confirmed!

This will be a great mission to explore some tops on the eastern tararuas and bag 2 of the tararua's 6 (official) bivvies. We will also go check out the broken axe pinnacles which should be quite cool.

This is a decent few days walking with a bit of weather-dependent off-track tops travel, so strong fitness and experience is required.

Day 1: Holdsworth carpark to mid king biv via atiwhakatu hut

Day 2: mid king biv to mcgregor biv via broken axe pinnacles

Day 3: mcgregor biv to holdworth carpark via jumbo

As per usual with the Tararuas, the weather is super unpredictable, so if we don't deem it wise to head up onto the tops, we will head to mid king biv via the barton track to stay below the bushline and then head out the same way as a 2-day trip.

Gear needed:

Standard tramping stuff

Tents - we will be borrowing 1 or 2 from the club just in case the biv/s are full!

Don't forget your headtorch! We may be walking in the dark a bit.

Gaiters wouldn't go amiss for this trip - lots of leatherwood and spaniards around mid king!

Food: I will sus 2x dinners, please bring 2x breakfasts and 3x lunches, and snacks!

Cost: fees for this trip go towards dinner and petrol.

Description: 

Climbing season is upon us!

This will be a chill one, just hanging out on the beach, eating snacks, maybe climbing a little. 

Bring:

• climbing stuff (shoes, helmet, harness, hardware, slings etc)

• lunch & water 

• approach shoes 

• warm clothes 

• togs??? 

This trip is not instructional; you must already know how to lead climb including setting up anchors & belaying. 

You are cordially invited to the annual summit luncheon between the good folks of VUWTC and AUTC.

Snowcraft experience required. Cricket, sock wrestling, and table-traversing experience strongly preferred.

Staying at the TTC lodge, room for 16 of us to go.

We will be staying in the TTC Lodge with members from the AUTC (Auckland University Tramping Club). Many shenanigans will be undertaken, mulled wine will be drunk, cricket will be played on the summit plateu, and we will wrestle over socks. Perhaps we may sing songs too.

Gear required is the same as was used on Snowcraft. So please ensure you have all the right layers and crampon compatible boots. 

Food: We will do a group meal on the Saturday night that will be shared with AUTC. That is the only shared meal. The rest will be self catered. 2x Lunches, 2x Breakfasts, and plenty of snacks!

The Billy Awards is the premier awards night for VUWTC, to celebrate the adventures and misadventures of the year. Everyone is welcome, whether you've been to one meeting or every single one of them.

If you haven't received an email with the address. (You've signed up on the day), flick us an email and we'll lyk!

TIME: Arrive from 6pm, we'll start cooking at 6:30, awards and Heels after dinner.

WHERE: A flat in Northland; sign up to be emailed the address closer to the date!

FOOD: Taco extravaganza! Taco night on steroids. Bring a couple of ingredients to contribute; fancy and/or weird contributions welcome. BYO drinks if you'd like. 

HEELS: With any luck our annual publication, Heels, will be ready to go!! 

AWARDS: The most important part!! We want to hear your best stories; now is the time to dob in your friends. 

To nominate someone for an award, fill out this form!

https://forms.gle/xEXKXmd2pyaT3Jkc7

The more detail in nominations, the better! Tell us every little detail, like that time a certain someone had a misadventure, or a time someone really stood out in the club this year!

Categories may or may not include:

⛰ Tramper of the year
🧗Climber of the year
🦸 Most promising new member
🛖 Hut bagging champion
🚕 Golden chariot
🗺 Most geographically challenged
❤️‍🩹 Worst injury
📝 Most trips organised
🏕 Most trips attended
💩 Piker of the year 
🌮 Best tacos host
❓Something else?

Come along for one last tacos of the year, and to celebrate all that we've done this year!