TROG = TRips lOG
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 to do a safer option: Bealey hut. In Arthur pass this small hut is 5-10 … Continue reading Bushcraft in Bealey hut: three days living in the wild
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 and doing major damage to your undercarriage. With that out of the way this is … Continue reading Anti Crow Hut
It is another one of those fantastic winter mornings, waking before the light. Fortunately, the timers (for heaters in the flat) were set in anticipation we could prepare in the warm. All geared and fed we head for the Clyde Road carpark where a sleepy, yet cheerful welcome is given by all manner of dressed … Continue reading TWALK 2019
By Lexi Richards Showing up to the UCSA carpark marked the start of our 2019 Freshers journey. A slow start at that, we made our way to Culverden where I couldn’t help myself from buying a pie from the local bakery. I held up the cue for a while trying to decide between a mince … Continue reading Freshers 2019
You may have heard people yarning on about Trogs, you may have been nagged to write one and might not even know what a TROG is! Trog stands for Trip Log, a story about your tramping club trip adventure! We collect these up over the year and put them into a book which is printed … Continue reading How to write a TROG
