Trips currently away
Organiser:
Tuscany King
Welcome to Wednesday Climbing Nights!
Every week, there will be an opportunity to climb at one of three climbing gyms!
For the first few weeks, we will start at Hangdog Adventures before visiting the new climbing gym Faultline Climbing on Willst St!
There are grades for everyone: people who prefer to test out the basic climbs to those who love a good challenge, so come along! No matter how much climbing experience you've had, you are welcome.
EDIT: We have bargined and the price for entry and shoe hire is $17!!!! WHICH IS AWESOME!
We also have a small supply of climbing shoes you can borrow, but our supplies are limited (ask if you would like to borrow them at the club meetings or on Wednesday // First in -first serve style), but shoes can be hired at Hangdog for a couple of bucks.
For this week, we will travel to Faultline Climbing!
Schedule:
- Sign up! ( So I have time to sort out transport).
This week, we will travel to Faultline Climbing from the University to the climbing gym. We will be walking down.
- Meet at the Hunter Carpark (Same area as the Club Gearshed) before 6 pm. We will be leaving the carpark around 6:15 pm.
- Travel to the Climbing Gym by foot.
- CLIMB! Until 9 pm/closing, return to the University carpark - unless discussed with your driver.
If you have any questions, find me at the Tuesday meetings or DM me on Messenger!
13 people attending this trip.
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Participants
Edwin David
Alan Ye
Tuscany King
Marta Craviotto
Grace Rotherham
Nora Quigley
Charlie Shirreffs
Nathan Cobbald
Phoebe McLean
Polly Little
Sophie Hayden
Iliya Shulin
charles savage
Upcoming trips
Organisers:
Ira Griffen
Lilly Merrall
WHAT: Tramps Tramps Tramps is our annual tramp (NB: there is no hiking involved) to a flat in Central Wellington where we party, we boogie, we drunkenly plan our next great mission into the bush.
WHO: You! Dressed as your interpretation of the word ‘Tramp’ or ‘Tramper’. In years gone by, costumes have included Donald Tramp, a trampoline, lady and the tramp, a 1940s lady of the night, or even just your lovely bush dwelling tramper.
WHERE: A flat located 5-mins walk from Kelburn campus and very accessible by bus. The address will be emailed to attendees on the day so please make sure you sign up below to get the deets!
HOW MUCH: This is an absolutely free event. If you aren’t already a member you will need to sign up to the club so we can email you the party address on the day. Drinks will not be provided so please bring your own.
If you don't recieve the email containing the address on the day, please text Lilly on 0274760033
61 people attending this trip.
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Participants
Nathan Cobbald
Cameron Thiele
Jack Huygens
Chris Russell
Lilly Merrall
Ira Griffen
Will Buffaloe
Zita Keller
Pebbels Heatley
Fig Quinn
Vic Roberts
Arlen Bandy
Justin Atkinson
Jackson Brown
Eder Lee
Iliya Shulin
Finlay Main
Max Honiss
Hollie Anderson
Stella Pratt
Grace Rotherham
Henry Claridge
Zade Viggers
Hannah Ellis-Ducobu
Anika Park
Tru Russell
somsai Ninthavong
Bryn Thompson
felicity wills
Annika Thornton
Talisa Weisswange
Julia Carcagno
Michelle Alves
Edwin David
Charlee Poole
Kaelin Spence
Euan McDowall
Wyatt Hart
Natalie Stewart
Marta Craviotto
Laura Takacs
Justina Yamoah
Frankie Rae
Elliot Schreurs
Grace Harman
Alex Auty
Nick Maguire
Hannah Murphy
Julian Muller
Arabella Tries
Charlotte Nielsen
Hazel Murray
Sam Whitaker
Lewis Thomson
Di Fang
Rewa Walker
Tuscany King
lochlainn kent
Brisa Kane
Charlie Shirreffs
Mark Bishop
Organiser:
Tommy Thomson
This trip needs a leader(sorry guys gone canyoning instead). If you can do this please let me know.
Meet at Johnsonville Station at 6pm, you can take the 1 or 22 bus, or the Johnsonville train.
Walk up Mt Kaukau past the Totara ridge Hemideina Tunnel™ (for legal reasons this is unrelated to the Johnsonville Weta cave™) hopefully to catch the sunset.
Return via Khandallah/Ngaio/Crofton Downs to the train/24/25.
Bring plenty of warm clothes as it can get very windy.
7 people attending this trip.
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Participants
Cara Reid
Tram Chau
lucia Adams
Iliya Shulin
Matthew Gibbons
Sophie Hayden
Henry Claridge
Organisers:
Patrick Hayes
Arlen McCluskey
Craig Scott (ex-VUWTC) and Patrick are running an evening canyoning trip this Thursday, suitable for complete beginners to the sport! We'll depart from Hunter carpak at 6pm (arrive at 5.40 if you need to borrow club gear) and head out to Dry Creek, part of Belmont Regional Park, near Haywards interchange in the Hutt. We'll follow a walking track for about 1 hour until we reach the stream, at which point we'll kit up and follow the stream back to the carpark in the dark, going past some interesting features including a waterfall!
We'll provide technical gear and teach you how to use it to abseil down the waterfall.
Signups limited by car space - Craig and I each have a car, if you can bring one we can take more people
What YOU need to bring:
- CLOTHING TO KEEP YOU WARM IN A RIVER AT NIGHT. Ideally a wetsuit (your old Warehouse one will do), otherwise bring 2-3 layers of thermal tops and bottoms, a fleece, and raincoat and overtrousers, thick woolen socks (or neoprene socks are even better). Gloves and a beanie might be nice too
- HEADTORCH - most of the river travel will be in the dark. You need your hands free for descending a rope and climbing obstacles. Phone lights are NOT SUITABLE. You can get one for $20ish from the supermarket
- Suitable footwear - trainers/ boots are good if the grip isn't completely worn out
- Water bottle
- Extra emergency layers plus clothing for the walk in, snacks
- Drybag to carry these - you might need to share with others if you don't have one
- A backpack to carry your drybag on the walk in, or share with others. If it has holes in the bottom this is ideal for water drainage as you go
- Maybe a towel and change of clothes to leave in the car (you never know if your drybag will stay dry...)
What the club can provide (but please bring your own if you have them!)
- Climbing helmet
- Harness ("seatbelt harness" or caving/ canyoning specific harness is best, climbing harness fine but can get roughed up a bit by the rock if not careful)
- Figure 8/ Canyon specific descender
- ATC belay descender if no Figure 8 (don't bring a Gri-gri)
- Locking carabiners x2
- Safety cord/ sling
11 people attending this trip.
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Participants
Patrick Hayes
Chris Russell
Antonia Dheere
Zita Keller
Lochie Montgomerie
Tommy Thomson
jasmyn mccall
Jasmine Philip
Michelle Alves
Elliot Schreurs
felicity wills
Recent trips
Organiser:
Jack Huygens
Herepai hut is a great introduction to the Tararuas, it's only a couple of hours walk from the roadend but it's right on the bush-edge and has lots of options for exploring the open tops.
Our plan is to walk in, then those who are keen to do a bit extra can do a walk up to Herepai peak and some of the surrounding areas (depending on time and weather) and the rest can chill at the hut for the afternoon. We'll walk out the way we came on Sunday.
The hut has 10 bunks, but we'll bring some tents since this is also a popular hut over the weekends.
Purple = the walk up to Herepai hut from Putara road end (2hrs)
Yellow = optional extra walks on the tops (3-5hrs)
You need to bring general overnight tramping gear, which is described in detail here:
https://www.vuwtc.org.nz/resources/gear-list
Cooking gear will be provided, and we'll cook a communal dinner. But please bring your own snacks, lunch and breakfast.
If you are wanting to join in for exploring the open tops, make sure you have a good raincoat and warm clothing!
Cost will be around $25-$30, which just includes fuel for the drive and ingredients for the shared dinner.
Meet at the Hunter carpark (Kelburn campus) at 10am Saturday morning:
10 people attending this trip.
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Participants
Jack Huygens
Seth St. Pierre
Anna Madden
Phoebe Huygens
Arlen McCluskey
Cameron Thiele
Ben McElwain-Wilson
Nick Maguire
Jasmine Philip
Charlotte Nielsen
Organiser:
Tuscany King
Welcome to Wednesday Climbing Nights!
Every week, there will be an opportunity to climb at one of three climbing gyms!
For the first few weeks, we will start at Hangdog Adventures before visiting the new climbing gym Faultline Climbing on Willst St!
Unfortunately, I will not be present tonight as a personal matter appeared; sorry in advance!
There are grades for everyone: people who prefer to test out the basic climbs to those who love a good challenge, so come along! No matter how much climbing experience you've had, you are welcome.
Entry costs $23. We also have a small supply of climbing shoes you can borrow, but our supplies are limited (ask if you would like to borrow them at the club meetings or on Wednesday // First in -first serve style), but shoes can be hired at Hangdog for a couple of bucks.
For this week, we will travel to Faultline!
Schedule:
- Sign up! ( So I have time to sort out transport).
This week, we will travel to Faultline Climbing from the University to the climbing gym. We will be walking down.
- Meet at the Hunter Carpark (Same area as the Club Gearshed) before 6 pm. We will be leaving the carpark around 6:15 pm.
- Travel to the Climbing Gym by foot.
- CLIMB! Until 9 pm/closing, return to the University carpark - unless discussed with your driver.
If you have any questions, find me at the Tuesday meetings or DM me on Messenger!
19 people attending this trip.
Sign ups
Participants
Nathan Cobbald
Seth St. Pierre
Alan Ye
Polly Little
Thea Pederson
Alesandra Cardella
Robin Roberts
Iliya Shulin
charles savage
Ana Wallbank
Marta Craviotto
Andrew Hsu
Nic Samson
Brisa Kane
Alex Strassberg
Cara Templeton
Gus Lane
Eugene Anderson-Jones
Philip Chalmers
Organiser:
Justin Atkinson
This week on Walkies come explore the many trails of Te Ahumairangi, that massive daunting section of forest behind the Wellington CBD skyline! We'll be trekking up, down, across, and around the forest. Hopefully we'll see some glow worms and find a mysterious hole/cave famous in Wellington urban folklore.
Meet at the Hunter carpark at 6pm!
10 people attending this trip.
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Participants
Justin Atkinson
Seth St. Pierre
Mark Bishop
Arlen Bandy
Iliya Shulin
Henry Claridge
Matthew Gibbons
Di Fang
lucia Adams
Kieran D'Souza
Organisers:
Louise Hammersley
Isla Ashby
Connor Sheppard
This week's weekly meeting will have the usual reports (like what happened at Freshers!), upcoming trips etc, then Isla & Louise have a presentation for us!
MEETING LOCATION - Room AM101 :)
Isla & Louise, two very active trampers in our club, will give a brief presentation and share their film about their 14-day trip to the Tararuas! The pair were supported by a Federated Mountain Club scholarship to embark on a trip Traversing the two main ridgelines of the Tararua Ranges. The adventure was to explore the ranges and also learn what it means to tramp as women! They filmed the whole experience and made a 22-minute video about the experience which will be shown at the meeting. We look forward to seeing you all there. If you can’t attend, they will also be screening it on Thursday 14th in Upper Hutt, follow @Traversing_the_tararuas on Instagram or Facebook for more information and RSVP!
11 people attending this trip.
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Participants
Jack Huygens
Justin Atkinson
Zita Keller
Stella Pratt
Nathan Cobbald
Marta Craviotto
Nic Samson
Henry Claridge
Iliya Shulin
Tal Shiri
Sophie Hayden
Organiser:
Jackson Brown
Last minute mish to Mt Matthews as I cancelled the Kaweka trip that was meant to be on.
Mt Matthews is the highest peak in the Remutakas, and is an 8-10 hour Mediumish day trip. Very doable, but just a bit long if you've never tramped before.
We will be meeting super early at 6:30am at the Hunter Carpark, as we need to make sure we get out before 6ish as the carpark closes in the evenings. The walk starts from Catchpool Valley in Wainuiomata, so will be a short drive over there and get going. Walk also includes a few river crossings if its not too high, so get prepared to get your feet wet. Make sure you bring warm clothes, lunch and plenty of snacks. Weather should be good, but make sure to bring a rain jacket just in case (and for the winds up top).
Trip is currently for 4 or 5 of us in my car, but if another car signs up I can take more I guess.
If you have any questions please feel free to email me via the link above.
5 people attending this trip.
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Participants
Nic Samson
Jackson Brown
Tram Chau
Latham Allison
Grace Harman