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Saturday 24th May - Dawson Falls to Enchanted Walk, Weta Cave
Lunch at Waingongoro Hut to complete the circuit back to Dawson Falls.
Contact: Kathryn Jones 027 711 2357 or David Sattler 027 209 9375


Wednesday 4th June - Club Evening
Andrea Shepherd - Some recent adventures down south. I have seen some of Andrea's recent snaps and they have been stunning - we are in for a treat. 7.30pm

Sunday 8th June - Bushy Park
An easy couple of hours stroll through the Bushy Park Sanctuary. There are a number of tracks, ranging from wheelchair friendly to the first Hihi feeder, to the Fenceline Loop, 90 minutes around Moortes Ride - Fenceline Track.
Leader: Jan Fleming 027 418 2429


Friday 13th June - Banff Mountain Film Festival
City West Church 62c Poplar Grove New Plymouth
Tickets available here


Sunday 22nd June - Kaupokonui Hunters Bivvy
One for the more adventurous, weather dependent.
Leader: Bruce Finer 027 205 2059


Thursday 3rd July - Club Evening
This is not a misprint - change of night.
Members Nick Kemp and Jacob Madden are leading a club night at the Small Bore Rifle Clubrooms at The Hub, Hicks Park. Get your eye in and have a go. $35 per person all welcome. RSVP to Nick 027 589 5898 by
Friday June 27th please. Meet at our clubrooms at 7.15pm and we will make our way over to The Hub.

Sunday 6th July - Kapuni Lodge via Kapuni Stream

Kathryn assures us this is quite negotiable, may be a bit of a scramble, a wee bush bash.
Leader: Kathryn Jones 027 711 2357

Sunday 20th July - Opunake Walkway
There are lots of options for shorter or longer walks. Finish with a Cafe lunch.
Leader: Jan Fleming 027 418 2429

Sunday 3rd August - Waihi Beach to Kiwi Outfall
The tides are okay for a beach walk, and a scramble up the 'Kiwi' Outfall, and back to Rifle Range Road via Nowells Lakes. Car shuttle can be arranged back to Waihi Beach.
Leader: Jim Finer 027 444 9190

Wednesday 6th August - Club Evening
John and Helen Cooper will show pictures of their adventurous five day tramp in March in the Ailsa Mountains, an area between the Greenstone and Caples valleys. John and Helens presentations are always exceptional - come and enjoy.

Sunday 17th August - Bike Ride Inglewood area
Donna Bunyan will lead this ride.
Local Contact: Al Barkla 027 618 9002

Sunday 31st August - NP Walkways
Barry has lead a number of walks in the last year or two, linking various walkways through New Plymouth.
Local Contact: Jan Fleming 027 418 2429

Friday 12th to Sunday 14th September - Taupo Weekend
Instead of Ohakune we decided to try Taupo for walkways, cycleways, hot pools and whatever else takes your fancy. Probably stay at a motorcamp with cabin and motorhome options.
Expressions of interest to Marilyn Finer 027 668 8999

Saturday 20th September - Annual Dinner, The Hawera Club
Keep this date free, price and time to be confirmed.





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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