TWALK 2019
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…
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Freshers 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…
How to write a TROG
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…
How Not To Go Tramping – The Rosie and Lydia Edition
By Rosie Irving Members: Rosie Irving and Lydia Kinsman Otehake Hot Springs in Arthurs Pass – 3rd & 4th of August 2018 By the time we arrived at the Aickens Corner carpark from Christchurch, it was 12 noon on Friday…
Freshers: The advanced crew
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…
CUTC helps the Middelmost Mudfish Project
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
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…
Trapping in the Andrews Valley
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…
Slushy Snowcraft
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…
Mt Rolleston Via Rome Ridge
“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.…