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Wednesday 5th March - Club Night 7.30pm
David Sattlers Memorabilia Collection
A club night at David and Anne Sattlers, 11 London Street Eltham
Come and look at Davids collection of Egmont National Park memorabilia, old tourist ware and other historic items including mountain paintings with the oldest painting at 156 years old. Leaving the clubrooms at 7pm for the short drive to Eltham, or see you at Davids.


Friday 7th - Monday 10th March - Taranaki Anniversary Weekend
Our annual weekends to Ohakune have always been in the winter, with little skiing over the last few trips. The idea is to enjoy Ohakune as a summer trip and explore new biking and walking options. Will be motorhome based for most, looking at doing the 42nd traverse by e-bike, and the downhill ride from Turoa.
Contact: Al Barkla 027 618 9002


Saturday 22nd March - Curtis Falls
Again, a trip with options. It would be good to have a pick up option from the plateau, someone wanting a modest walk could walk to the new bridge and meet the others.
Contact: David Sattler 027 209 9375


Wednesday 2nd April - AGM 7.30pm
We are a club with a lengthy history. Although we have had some good growth in membership over the last little while, we have a very small committee and need more people around the table. Those in key positions have been in their roles for a long time. We need new blood on the committee to breathe new life into our club.

Sunday 6th April - New Plymouth Walks
Join Barry Greenbrook for another enjoyable stroll through lesser known walkways in New Plymouth. We will start the morning at 9.30am out east, park on Nevada Drive just down from the Merrilands shopping centre entrance. A bit of a city amble that will include the bush, an historic site, road walking, a school visit, a river track saunter, a climb through an orchard, through suburbia and back to the cars. Some cool views cloud permitting!
Then out to the west where we will admire the volcanic crystals and Mt Taranaki's historic heritage with some tumble downs, a seal or two and a scenic climb and even a log cabin in the mix. The views are breath taking! Cafe lunch somewhere for sure.
Leaving clubrooms 8.30am. Local contact: Jan Fleming 027 418 2429


Saturday 12th April - Tram Tracks Trip
A climb up the south side of Fanthams Peak taking a line up the long rock formations that look like tram/railway tracks from a distance. This is a totally different and more interesting route up the peak than the normal route most people take. Most likely returning the normal route back down.
Contact: David Sattler 027 209 9375


Sunday 27th April - New Plymouth Mystery Bike Ride
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Change of plan, Wietze is unable to lead this ride now so maybe we'll make this a ride around the Opunake Trail, open to walkers too, and a cafe lunch after?
Contact: Al Barkla 027 618 9002, trailer available if you need bike transport.


Wednesday 7th May - Club Night
Donna Bunyan around New Zealand. Come and listen to Donna talk about some of the many interesting rides she done. 7.30pm.

Fun Day at Rotokare - Postponed until a later date

Choice of tracks, lower or upper, or a trapping line. Bird photo competition.

Saturday 17th May - Join Stratford Tramping Club
on the No-one Went to Town Walk. Follow the path May Tarrant and her family took in the early 1900's to reach civilisation. Based on the book with the above title, written by Phyllis Johnston. From Strathmore, over the hill to Makahu, approximately 8kms, car shuttle required. Please indicate your interest by Thursday 15th May to Jan 027 418 2429 to arrange drivers.

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

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

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Waitiri track & daffodil patch - 25th august 2024

28/8/2024

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13 members met at Rawhitiroa School this morning to drive in convoy to the Omoana saddle. The goal was to walk the Waitiri Track to the daffodil patch. 4 mounted their e-bikes while the rest walked. The cyclists shot off, in the capable hands of Marilyn who knew the way, or so I thought. We soon saw them in the distance, the other side of a huge gully. We didn’t see them again for an hour. Jan turned back at the 5km point, the trampers and geographically challenged bikers had lunch at the old house site, and Jan and the bikers got to the vehicles at 2 pm. The walkers took another 50 minutes. A great day out on an overcast day with just one wee shower.
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pouakai range - sunday 11th august 2024

28/8/2024

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EAC club trip this last Sunday was a long overdue visit to the Pouakai Range where we visited Photographic Peak and Hump Hill. Although the weather put a dampner on the spectacular views that can be had our small group of 4 had a fantastic time!
Thanks to Kathryn and Andrea for leading the trip.
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Dawson short walks - sunday 28th july 2024

28/8/2024

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A successful tour of some lesser visited waterfalls this morning. We viewed the upper and lower Kaupokonui Falls, rediscovered the Konini Dell track, and had morning tea at Victoria Falls. We returned along the ridge track in lovely weather. Thanks to the crew for maintaining good humour on the gnarly bits.
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Beach walk - sunday 14th july 2024

14/7/2024

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5 people joined me for a walk from Ohawe Beach to Waihi Beach in cool conditions to start with but a fantastic day, weather wise.  Low tide was at 9.27 am so we were walking by just after nine.  Great walking with not too many obstacles.  At Waihi, 5 carried on to the Fonterra out fall while I went up the hill and organised cars.  Met up with the group at Nowell’s lake.  Apparently it was a brisk walk so they weren’t caught out with incoming tide.  Lunch at Upside Down. Thanks all for making it a great morning.
Marilyn
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kahui hut & beyond - Sunday 30th june 2024

2/7/2024

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Three club members took part on Sundays mountain tramp - Kahui Hut & Beyond lead by Bruce Finer. The weather wasn’t stunning but fine. We started from the road end at the park boundary walking the Kahui track to Kahui Hut. From the hut we took the old ridge track which proved to be a bush bash in some places. Once we came out onto the tussock & moss slopes area we could see Turehu Hill 4,500’ which was our main objective to visit. We had lunch there, checked out the rock bivvy and with the weather closing in we made a rapid decent back down to the hut. Then it was back down to our starting point. A great area of the mountain seldom visited, thank you Bruce!
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Ararata Ngawhini Bike ride sat 25th May 2024

26/5/2024

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After a heavy shower of rain threatened to disrupt our 10am start at the clubrooms, the sky cleared a little and 8 riders headed off through town to break into the sunshine while heading up Ararata Road and we got a great view of the mountain and coastline before descending down Ngawhini and onto Turuturu Road where we rode through several new subdivisions and onto Upside Down cafe to enjoy lunch together. Joining Al were Donna B a new member, Jim & Marilyn, Wietze & Rae and Michelle all on ebikes and brave Michael on an analogue bike. Great to get outside on the best weather window on an otherwise  slightly miserable weekend.
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NP walks sunday 5th may

6/5/2024

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Seven joined Barry Greenbrook for a couple of short walks in New Plymouth today. We met at Ellesmere Avenue and did a ramble through streets and right of ways, then returned to the vehicles along the beach, following a path through the sand dunes, with great view from the Pouakais to the North Taranaki coastline. Back to cars to drive to Huatoki Domain where we followed the Huatoki, then through bush trails and farmland to return to the Domain via streets and bush. We enjoyed a great lunch at a surprise venue, Summerset Mountain View Retirement Village. A great day out thanks Barry.
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alpine ramble saturday 27th april 2024

27/4/2024

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We had a great time on the hill today.
With our intended high route up through the Organ Pipes scarpered by icy conditions a change of plans had to be made. Staying on the east side of the mountain we ended up all over the show but had a great time exploring on the eastern alpine slopes topping the day off with a drink at the Mountain House.
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moeawatea mtb ride, Saturday 2nd march

4/3/2024

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Today's Moeawatea ride featured nine participants in total. The route involved riding downhill and going past an attractive valley that led us to the final resting place of devoted farmer Ernie Matthews, whose commitment to working on this soil spanned numerous years., stops were made at Rewi Alleys cottage, derelict homesteads and other sites
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club summit - saturday february 17th

19/2/2024

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The annual EAC club summit expedition was held on Saturday 17th with 8 participants. The day was fine & warm & we climbed the fabulous East Ridge route. Everyone went well & we descended back down the North Ridge route with only a few cuts & scrapes.
Thanks to Alistair Barkla for leading the day.
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