Canterbury University Tramping Club

3/4 March 2018: George, Ellen, and a varying number of other CUTC-ers. Route: Sharplin Falls car-park to Woolshed Creek Hut via Pinnacles Hut; Return via the summit of Mt. Somers. The trip began at the Clyde Road carpark, with a…

25 February 2018: Sabrina, Maxime, Isaura, Edoardo, Bettina, Angus, Jozef & Steven Club Environmental Officer Sabrina, along with seven other CUTC-ers headed out near Oxford to help plant over 250 native shrubs in a wetland area—an important spawning habitat for…

Philistine-Rolleston Traverse Hamish Cumming and Caroline Bellamy Friday evening Hamish and I made our way to Arthurs Pass, time passing quickly with good chat soon arriving at the cmc lodge. Roasting by the fire in lodge we organised our gear…

7 May 2016: George (CUTC Environmental Officer), Kerry, Annie, Michael, Alex and Ann One fine sunny day in May, six intrepid CUTC members went off to delicately place eggs in wooden boxes and throw dead animals through the forest. Traps…

A winter wonderland, indeed. I have never been over Porters Pass before with snow down to the road level. Fresh powdery snow covered literally everything, which is an absolute paradise for the skiing but not so much for the driving…

“Pumped to get out of the city and climb a mountain”! Saturday evening the four of us, Hamish Cumming, Chris Sillars, Alan Williams and I drove through the falling snow in Porters and onwards to the CMC Lodge, Arthurs Pass.…

An 8 AM start in the UCSA carpark yielded 7 sleepy trampers, which resulted in a quick consensus to stop in Culverden pie and coffee. Following a mandatory group photo, off we set, discovering along the way that slopes make…