East Hawdon Biv
31st May – 1st June By Zoë Marshall-Means Participants: Zoë Marshall-Means and Max Truell I’ve made an incredible discovery, I was planning a tramp to a random little biv to get out of the city for the weekend, and instead…
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Up River Creek Without a Shit a.k.a. The Revenge of the Night Befores’ Chicken
Like clockwork, the first steep-bastard-climb of the tramp hit us in the face at barely 8am, exactly how our alarms had done just two hours before. Thankfully the scenery was more than enough to distract us from our reluctantly warming…
Of Flooded Rivers and Sandflies
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…
9 EASY Steps to Bush-bash at Home!
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!…
Pirates of the Rakaia
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…
Onwards and upwards!
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…
Mongolian Throat Singing & Luke-Cold Baths
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…
Bush Ball 2019
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…
Bushcraft in Bealey hut: three days living in the wild
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…
Anti Crow Hut
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…