When your significant other says they want to go tramping, you can’t really say no… An impromptu plan to get to Barker hut, find pretty rocks and see some glaciers was slapped together on Thursday night and 24 hours later…
There was a bit of theme on this impromptu, poorly researched but awesome and remote 3 day weekend-but-not-really-a-weekend. With end of term assignments stacking up, I wanted to be free of uni early so I stayed up till 4 in…
Two and a half hours of sleeping later my alarm went off at the bright and early time of 5am. That’s what happens when you host the CUSSC Intro BBQ at your flat the night before. Congregating at the foundry…
Miss swearing at trees? Forgotten what it feels like to climb through gorse? Skin too intact? With all this time off tramping your brain might be trying to forget the trauma of your last proper bush bash. But fear not!…
Voyage along the Southern Alps from Arthur’s Pass to Aoraki A brave party of four, the fabled Pirates of the Rakaia, undertook the long and treacherous journey beginning at the waters of the mighty Waimakariri and ending at the foot…
Will the sole of my boots still be attached at the end of the hike? Will we make it up Mt. Saunders? How bad is bush bashing really? Find out in this week’s episode of: ONWARDS AND UPWARDS! Members: Luke…
DISCLAIMER: This TROG is in no way sponsored by Radix Nutrition – not bad for a freeze-dried meal. Also, probably the best meal we’ve enjoyed on an iceberg… Water from Camp Creek filled my boots and soaked my socks, as…
The weekend started with lots of sleepy looking sleepy looking trampers waiting in a cold UCSA parking lot wondering where the trip leader was. Well, I was halfway across Ilam fields working up quite a sweat trying to carry 40…
Me and Tim decide to go, for the queen’s birthday, to Ben More hut for three days with only a tarp, food, warm cloth, hatchets, saw and knife. However, the weather was very bad the Saturday and so we decide…
Snow makes a really disconcerting sound when it scrapes along the bottom of a newly bought car who’s clearance you’re not entirely used to yet. A terrible scraping sound which seems more like it’s bottoming out on the gravel road…