Club Night, May 2013
There was a good attendance at the Club’s AGM with 3 new or prospective members welcomed.
In her Annual Report, President Bronwyn McCone urged members to become more active in trip planning and organising. She highlighted the schools tramping training programme that the Club ran as being a big success, as was the Herbert Forest Guided Walk day with over 80 people enjoying the tracks there.
Our Treasurer reported a small loss for the year as a result of the one off cost of setting up the NOTMC website. The subscription fees will stay the same as last year.
Apart from Jane Green becoming the new Vice President, and Karyl Robertson and Colin Wollstein coming on the committee, the office bearers remain the same.
Trip Reports
14 members headed up to The Hermitage in mid April hoping to stay a night at Mueller Hut. However this hut is a popular place and when they arrived there were only 3 beds left. Plan B was a day trip which was enjoyed by all, with some climbing Mt. Olivier as well. They stayed at the well equipped Canterbury Mountaineering Club hut and visited the Tasman Glacier the next day.
The Herbert Forest working bee was cancelled because of heavy rain even though 18 turned up to go. However another three hardy souls braved the mud to shift a heavy bridge to a better site.
The annual Guided Walk Day was again popular with over 60 visitors enjoying a day in Herbert Forest.
The Wednesday Walkers have been to Devil’s Elbow where two falcons were sighted, Mts. McKenzie and Trotter, and the Benmore Walkway on glorious autumn day even though it was foggy when they left Oamaru.Twentyseven did a circuit around the Pipeline track and up to Swampy in the Silver Peaks, and recently one group walked around Cape Wanbrow and the Golf Course, while another climbed Kurow Hill. That evening a large group of past and present Wednesday Walkers celebrated their 25th anniversary with a dinner at the Maheno Tavern.
Coming trips are to Mt Kirkleston, and a Queens Birthday clockwise circuit of the Kepler Track. More details are on the NOTMC website in “What’s On”
Dave Mellish then organised a quiz of mainly tramping topics, which provided some inspired answers.
The final task was to provide a caption for a photo of a group up in the mountains gazing into the distance, which provide some hilarious suggestions!