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Please watch for updates. Trips and details may change regularly.
Omissions and errors, please email al@barkla.kiwi.nz

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June 3-5 - Queens Birthday Weekend
Free for private trips


Wednesday 7th June - Club Evening
Our intrepid adventurer, Andrea, took a few weeks off trapping and kiwi catching to explore new places in the South Island during March and April. Join us to see what she got up to. 7.30pm.

Saturday 10th June - Sandy Bay, Oaonui
Administered by DOC, TRC and Ngati Tara Oaonui Sandy Bay Society, this is a nesting area for the NZ Dotterel. We have muscled in on a STC walk, Christine Feigler has kindly agreed we can join her, walking over the sand dunes to the stream, and if time allows, cross and walk north to the beach, returning along the track to the baches.
Local Contact: Kathryn Jones 027 711 2357

Saturday 17th June - Cycle Lepperton Circuit
Leaving from Hickford Park carpark. A 40km bike ride around the Lepperton area with a crossing of the Bertrand Road bridge. Catch a drink at the Lepperton Cafe on the return, always busy though. Walking option on the Walkway. Maybe lunch at the White Pear Cafe, Parklands, on return.
Leaders: Wietze and Rae, 021 818 149; or walkers: Jan Fleming 027 418 2429

Friday 30th June - Banff Film Festival
This is always an event worth catching, and looks like a great programme this year.
Citywest Church 62c Poplar Grove NP 7pm

Wednesday 5th July - Club Evening
Details to follow

Saturday 8th July - Midwinter Xmas at Kapuni Lodge
BYO food and drinks and stay at the lodge.
Contact: Al Barkla 027 618 9002

Sunday 16th July - York Road Loop
This is child friendly and always an interesting walk with great interpretive boards, 2-2
½ hours with a lovely clearing at the top for a bite to eat.
Leader: Chris Watts 021 542 020

Sunday 30th July - Mangamahoe Walkway
An easy walk with great views on a fine day. A latte walk so let me know if you are coming so I can book a table for lunch.
Leader: Jan Fleming 027 418 2429

Wednesday 2nd August - Club Evening
Dean Pratt will talk about his Antarctic Marathon, something different, not to be missed! 7.30pm

Friday 4th - Sunday 6th August - Tararua Weekend
Based at Holdsworth Campsite. Those with homes on wheels, great parking, but also a great tenting area. Also Holdsworth Lodge nearby, accomodates 28, can book online.
Leader: Werner Gut 027 670 9397

Sunday 20th August - Plateau to Tahurangi
View new work on Jacobs ladder weather permitting.
Leader: Kathryn Jones 027 711 2357;  easier option: Jan Fleming 027 418 2429

Saturday 2nd September - MTEAC Annual Dinner
Venue to be advised.

Wednesday 6th September - Club Evening

September 8th-10th - Ohakune Weekend
Apartment at Ozzies sleeps 12, first in first served. Various activities available. Shared meal Saturday night.
Contact: Jan Fleming 027 418 2429





Ohakune Trip, September 4th-6th 2022

9/9/2022

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Setting off midmorning Sunday for lunch at Pukekos Nest, Whanganui it was decided to then take the more scenic route via Fields Track, which heads a little inland off SH4 south of the Rauwaka Falls and hits SH49 just east of Ohakune. Great views and a bit of stock dodging on the way.

The prediction was for rain by lunch time on Monday and so an early start saw seven riders off to do the Rangataua loop. Most of us on e-bikes with Dave and Alistair B on unassisted mountain bikes, chapeau to you two! The loop consisted of Shannon St to Ruapehu Rd, Dreadnought Rd, Mangateitei Rd to SH4, then onto Ratamairie Rd turning towards the cemetery and then into what was most likely a paper road on farmland to Lakes Rd and the Ruapehu-Ohakune road back to Ozzies (just in case someone asks).

It was nice ride through the farm land but raining and colder by then, stories abounded afterwards of snake bites and getting stuck in ruts but all good fun and the larger puddles could be avoided. Researching the correct terminology for hitting the peddles on the sides of deep ruts, which it seems we all did, only found descriptions of clipping your lowers and landing on your face and tires turning into big, bald rotating masses of forest snot – could have been a lot worse people! Our bums stayed firmly on our seats and the wheels kept rolling, so I guess we got lucky.
By the time we completed the 20km loop the remainder of the team were walking to town for coffees but the riders decided it was time to head back to Ozzies where Marilyn measured out the warming medicinal port at 11am!

The rest of the trip was spent relaxing over convivial chatter, tall stories (some true, most debatable!), great camaraderie and a delicious pot luck dinner. Snow in the village didn’t eventuate overnight but at least the ski field got a bit of a covering at last.

The intrepid travelers were; Alistair Barkla, Jan Fleming, Dorothy and Alistair Linn, Pat and Dave McNair, Marilyn and Jim Finer, Rae Hannah and Wietze Hoogeveen. Many thanks to Marilyn for organizing.

Rae Hannah

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