News and Calendar - Mt Egmont Alpine Club

Mt Egmont Alpine Club

News and Events

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2026

Sunday 1st February - Aorere Road bike trip
With a walking option to Forest and Bird Hut
Leader: Al Barkla 027 618 9002

Wednesday 4th February - Club Night
Quiz Night with Justine 7.30pm

Sunday 15th February - Southern Moss Fields
Maybe over the top of Fanthams, a reasonable level of fitness required.
Leader: Bruce Finer 027 205 2059

Wednesday 4th March - Club Night
Bev Prankerd sharing her adventures on Wrangel Island. We enjoyed Bev's last arctic adventure. She visited Wrangel Island a few years ago, polar bears and more. 7.30pm

Saturday 7th March - Monday 9th March -
Taranaki Anniversary Weekend - Ruatiti Domain
Opportunities for camping, tenting, biking, relaxing.
Leader: David McNair 027 249 2226

Saturday 25th March - Khyber Pass
A reasonable level of fitness required for this trip.
Leader: David Sattler 027 209 9375

Wednesday 1st April - AGM 7.30pm
Please consider becoming more involved in the committee, our committee table has more seats to fill. We are urgently seeking a new treasurer, Marilyn Finer has held this role for many years and is retiring.

Sunday 12th April - Crams Wetlands revisit
Combined with a latte walk.

Waitiri track & daffodil patch - 25th august 2024

28/8/2024

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.

pouakai range - sunday 11th august 2024

28/8/2024

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.

Dawson short walks - sunday 28th july 2024

28/8/2024

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.

Beach walk - sunday 14th july 2024

14/7/2024

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

kahui hut & beyond - Sunday 30th june 2024

2/7/2024

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!

Ararata Ngawhini Bike ride sat 25th May 2024

26/5/2024

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.

NP walks sunday 5th may

6/5/2024

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.

alpine ramble saturday 27th april 2024

27/4/2024

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.

moeawatea mtb ride, Saturday 2nd march

4/3/2024

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

club summit - saturday february 17th

19/2/2024

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.