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RECREATION WALKING and CYCLING TRAILS

JUNE 2018 ISSUE NO 245

New Zealand Walk:

Get into hot water on Great Barrier Island New Zealand Day Hike:

Te Whara Track

Te Mata Peak Track

Save the track petition reaches over 18,000

Overseas Walks

A trail of two cities New Zealand Day Hike:

160 years of history - Talk a walk through a beautiful garden

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Waitakere Ranges forests closed NZ $7.50 inc GST

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CONTENTS Issue 245 - 2018

3 Contents 4 Walk Talk 6 New Zealand Walk: Get into hot water on

Great Barrier Island 10 My Favourite Walk: Good times, grunts and a gander 12 My Favourite Walk: Pine Valley Walk a cool

walk in Mt Richmond Forest Park 14 New Zealand Walk: Wednesday city group take

on the Rimutaka Rail Trail 15 New Zealand Walk: Trail great for families with kids 15 New Zealand Walk: Railway trail popular with

walkers as well as cyclists 16 Walking New Zealand Monthly Photo Contest 18 New Zealand Walk: 160 years of history - Take

a walk through a beautiful garden 22 Need 2 Know: Waitakere Ranges forests now closed 23 Hawkes Bay Trails- Waimarama Road to be improved 24 Overseas Walks: A trail of two cities 27 New Zealand Walk: Cape Brett Lighthouse

overnight walk in BOI Walking Festival 30 Overseas Walks: The story of the modern ‘A

Pennine Journey’ 34 Event: The Great New Zealand Trek - Ophir to Lawrence 35 Readers View: Kauri Dieback 36 New Zealand Day Hikes: Te Whara Track 38 Event: 21st Great Forest events 40 New Zealand Short Walk: Devils Punchbowl

Walking Track: Blue Lakes and Tasman

Glacier View 41 Subscription Form 42 Overseas Walks and Tours 44 Need 2 Know: Save the track petition reaches

over 18,000 45 Index of previous 14 issues 46 Coming Events: New Zealand 50 Coming Events: Overseas 52 Directory of Walking Groups 56 New Zealand Country Breaks 59 Green Prescription 60 Taupo events

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Cover photo: Cover: Lyn Hooton, Viv Mauriri and Dorothy Mut-

ton, members of the Mangatoi Walking Group, Te Puke, at Wave Rock in the Wairarapa. Wave Rock can be found on the Patuna Chasm walk which is a private walk open to the public during the summer months. The chasm can be found south of Martinborough and takes about three hours to complete.

Photo by John McDonald, Te Puke.

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Putting the pedal to the cycleway metal Work on Christchurch’s cycleways is picking up speed.

Christchurch City Council Planning and Delivery Transport Manager Lynette Ellis says the cycle “links” are rapidly extending across the city – from a coastal path to a quarry trail.

Contractors are making good progress on the Linwood Avenue section of the Rapanui-Shag Rock cycleway.

“Work is already under way on the Heathcote Expressway, between the city and The Tannery in Woolston,” Ms Ellis says.

Construction has started on the Charles Street route that continues to Mackenzie Avenue, Sheldon Street and Cumnor Terrace before connecting to The Tannery.

“Design work is being completed on the Wilsons Road and Ferry Road section, and work will start in the next couple of months,” Ms Ellis says.

In the city, a section of the Quarryman’s Trail in Antigua Street – between Moorhouse Avenue and Brougham Street – is open to cyclists.

The complete section between the city and Hoon Hay will be finished about May. On the coastal route, the next stage of the Rapanui – Shag Rock Cycleway is forging ahead, with paving being laid between the trees in the Linwood Avenue median.

Cofferdams – enclosures built in the water to create a dry work environment for construction – have also been built by the Linwood Canal to help with the work at the Dyers Road end of the cycleway.

The first stage – between the city and Linwood Park – was completed late last year.

“The final stage – from Dyers Road to the Ferrymead Bridge and the start of the Coastal Pathway – is in the end stages of the design process,” Ms Ellis says.

“The momentum is certainly building as more people get on board with the cycleway plan. By making cycling an attractive and user-friendly option, we are, in turn, creating a healthier city that links multiple communities.”

Christmas in July on Murray River

Captain Cook Cruises is celebrating Christmas early on-board the PS Murray Princess in Australia. This July will see three, four and seven-night Murray River cruises between 6 - 23 July 2018, celebrating Christmas.

The cruises combine the three, four and sevennight cruise itineraries with Christmas in July festivities including a traditional Christmas dinner or lunch, a range of Christmas themed activities and games, Christmas music, eggnog, and a visit from Santa with presents for all the guests.

In between celebrating Christmas its full steam ahead down the mighty Murray River to discover Australian history, culture, and wildlife.

Each day features day trips to historic ports, sacred Aboriginal sites, a sheep station and woolshed, a native wildlife shelter and guided nature walks to learn about the ecology of the river. www.murrayprincess.com.au/

Walk into Luxury tours in WA

Walk into Luxury has released several new tours across WA, combining bucket-list experiences with gourmet food and wine and exclusive accommodation. The Kimberley, Rottnest Island, Ningaloo Reef, Margaret River and the Amazing South Journeys range from seven to 12 days; and includes the option to ‘build your own adventure’.

Experiences include swimming with gentle whale sharks at Ningaloo Reef, a sunset helicopter flight to the Cockburn Range or a waterfall heli-hike and Kimberley river cruise, and a range of luxury walks.

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Bike path around Lake Garda

A new bike path expected to be finished in 2021 will offer up the chance to cycle around Italy’s Lake Garda.

When complete, the path will be 140km long and cross three regions - Trentino, Lombardia and Veneto.

It aims to suit cyclists of all levels and some areas with a lot of inclines can be avoided by taking a boat on the lake.

Above: An artist’s impression of the bike path.

Golden Foot Walking awards

The Golden Foot Walking Awards celebrate and recognise New Zealand achievements for walkers by acknowledging innovative new facilities, highlighting national best practise and rewarding ongoing commitment to walking. The awards are open to all - private companies and public organisations, notfor-profit groups, and community organisations or individuals.

The award ceremony will be in Wellington in late June and there will be an opportunity for finalists to showcase your project at that time.

Golden Foot Walking Award inititiatives could be: Projects and programmes, facilities or place-making, events, research, school projects, walking advocate champions, also extraordinary walkers (eg walkers completing the Te Araroa Trail in record times or ways, walk fundraising for a particular cause, commuters walking long distances or overcoming barriers, stories of health gains through walking)

Lighted spiral entrance to treewalk

A nine metre high new lanterninspired spiral entranceway with a focus on design, sustainability and innovation has been officially opened at the Redwoods Treewalk , Rotorua.

The new entry allows visitors the chance to wind their way up from the forest floor into the tree canopy.

Redwood Treewalk cofounder and director, Bruce Thomasen says it both complements and contrasts the beauty of the natural environment, providing a focal point for the day and night experience.

‘Designed to also be a large lantern at nighy the new entrance highlights the unique relationship between form and function, design and innovation and the natural elements of the Treewalk.

‘The outer ring is suspended from the trees using a unique sling system in a sustainable way, with the inner platform supported by four wooden poles.

‘Built and engineered locally, we’ve used a mixture of steel and timber, predominantly macrocarpa,’ Thomasen says.

New off road walking tracks planned

The Queenstown Lakes District Council proposes to make a major commitment to active travel in the Upper Clutha that sees significant funding for walking and cycle activities included in the draft Ten Year Plan (TYP).

Provision of $1.5 million has been budgeted for active travel improvements in the draft TYP. There is also $4.1 million allocated for shared spaces in the town centre, which includes walking and cycling improvements as part of the Wanaka Lakefront Development Plan. A further budget of $820K has been earmarked for the development of off-road tracks across the Upper Clutha area.

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New Zealand Walk

Get into hot water on Great Barrier Island

By Judith Doyle

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’m a walker, not a tramper. So the 100kms of tracks that serious trampers tackle on Great Barrier Island, are not for me. But the island has magical walks as well, I discovered last summer.

Our group of Tranzit Tours – seniors all, a few in their 80s -- enjoyed two particular walks, both taking nearly an hour, at a relaxed pace. One leads to some natural hot thermal pools in the bush, another is in Glenfern Sanctuary, a predator-controlled regenerating native forest. And, of course, we walked along some of the island’s long curving beaches – Medlands Beach, my favorite.

It was pure magic to walk through bush on an easy, flattish walk to the natural hot springs. Steve Billingham, Left: We cross the Kaitoke Stream.

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The hotwater springs walk starts halfway along the Whangaparapara Road while the Glenfern Sanctuary walk is on the northern side of Port Fitzroy Harbour.

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Still on an easy level track, we are soon walking through the extensive Kaitoke swamp. This is a large unmodified freshwater wetland of manuka and fern. We keep an eye out for the pateke brown teal, banded rail and fern bird. I don’t manage to spot them on this walk but we see the teal and rail later, in other parts of the island.

More regenerating bush, a welcome long-drop loo beside the track, another corner and we reach the greenish-grey waters of the pools in their natural surroundings. And natural means natural – the hot pools have nothing artificial about them. No concrete steps or sides. We change into togs in the bush – females to the right, males to the left. Then I step over some rocks and

Above: A tribute to Tony Bouzaid, founder of Glenfern Sanctuary.

slowly sink into hot water. Bliss.

The pool is just deep enough to sit or recline. The hot springs provide evidence of the geothermal activity that began to produce minerals like copper and silver on Great Barrier Island five million years ago. The spring water is from a deep groundwater reservoir and contains leached chemicals from volcanic rocks. It’s doing you good – you can feel it.

We walk back on the same track in two’s and three’s. I’m lucky to be walking with Steve who is a mine of information on – well, everything islandrelated. He shows me how a friend of his makes the bowl of fallen nikau into

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from Go Great Barrier Island, drops us off at the start of the Kaitoke Hot Springs Walk, about halfway along Whangaparapara Road which joins the eastern and western sides of the island. Les Cockeram of Tranzit Tours leads us along an easy gravelled track which soon crosses a bridge over the Kaitoke Stream. Here we’re surrounded by magnificent nikau palms with great arching fronds.

The nikau give way to regenerating forest, mainly ponga, manuka and kanuka. The giant kauri that were once prolific on the island were felled en masse in early pioneering days and exported around the world. Only in the north of the island remnants of intact kauri forest remain. An enormous amount of kauri planting has gone on in Great Barrier and it is encouraging to pick out a few of these young kauri as we walk along.

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Get into hot water on Great Barrier attractive fruit bowls -- they’re a crafty lot on the island. The track takes about an hour each way including lots of chat and photo stops. Back in the minibus, feeling super-relaxed after my hot thermal soak, I must admit to nodding off as we return to Tryphena.

The other walk to be greatly recommended is in Glenfern Sanctuary, situated on the northern side of Port Fitzroy Harbour. One side of its pest-proof fence actually runs along the harbourside. Energetic trampers walk up to the highest point and then down the bush walk. But we are dropped at the highest point and walk down. Even so, I find the hour-long walk quite taxing, with its many deep steps. But the bush-and-bird rewards make up for my complaining knees.

Before we start the walk we are introduced to one of two predator dogs – this one is Tui. She comes with us to a high rocky point where the founder of the

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Glenfern Sanctuary, Tony Bouzaid, is remembered in style. The hat he always wore and a formal tribute are set into the rock at this very high point which must offer the greatest view in the whole of Great Barrier Island. You can see Mt Hobson, Port Fitzroy, Kaikoura Island, Little Barrier Island and even Hen and Chicken Islands.

Tony Bouzaid, champion yachtsman, purchased a block of land here in 1992. Farming had ceased in 1967 and regeneration from pasture to forest was starting. In 1994, Bouzaid started planting 10,000 trees and began to control rodents – ship rats, kiore and mice. Finally his vision expanded to include the whole of the Kotuku Peninsula which includes private as well as Department of Conservation land. He financed the predator-proof fence himself which protects much of the sanctuary. Later there was a successful aerial eradication of predators. These days there is a Above: We relax in the hot thermal pool in the bush.

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network of 1000 tracking tunnels and bait stations and, with the help of the two rodent dogs, predators are largely kept at bay.

When Tony Bouzaid died suddenly in 2011, a natural pond on his land was enlarged to make a habitat for pateke or brown teal, as a memorial to him. The local community donated and the local volunteer fire brigade pumped 50,000 litres of water into the pond. There is now a thriving pateke population there.

The first ‘feature’ pointed out to us on the sanctuary walk is a weta nest above us. Then we cross a swing bridge into the canopy of a 600-year-old kauri tree and imagine how this bush must have been when these grand trees were numerous.

Further down is a black petrel colony and, between November and May, they breed and nest here in an enormous gnarled old puriri tree. There are celery pine, totara, lacebark and rimu to be picked out on the walk.

One of the last remaining populations of chevron skinks in the world survive in the Glenfern Stream. Steve thinks the chevron skink should be New Zealand’s national emblem but he doesn’t get much approval for that idea! A few years ago only 300 had ever been sighted in the wild and they were thought to be near extinction. Now, thanks to the dedicated monitoring they get here, they are surviving well in the absence of predators. The kokopu (long fin eel) and koura (small crayfish) also live in the Glenfern Stream.

When we emerge from the track after about an hour, we’re delighted to see kaka doing acrobatics in the trees near the Glenfern Cottage and the information centre – a fitting finale to our walk through a very special place. A cup of tea or coffee is also welcome at this stage before we board our minibus back to Tryphena.

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Above: We walk down through the sanctuary in regenerating bush. Below left: Steve demonstrates how the nikau can be made into an unusual fruit bowl. Below right: Tui, one of the predator dogs.

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Good times, grunts and a gander

By Alana Srubar-Vernon

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etting off for our day tramp on the Fenian Caves Loop, we were not prepared for just how much of a good time we were about to have on our adventure.

Thinking it was going to be an easy day tramp we headed out optimistic, mostly ignoring the comments we came across in the intentions book about actual length and difficulty, figuring that they wouldn’t relevant anymore as they were quite old.

The track starts off very gently with a slow and steady climb up following an old bridle track. Originally used in the early 1900’s by fully loaded pack horses; they would take supplies into the gold prospectors at The Fenian.

I found my mind wandering, trying to imagine what it must have been like

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for the settlers here and waiting for the next delivery of supplies by this route.

The sound of the gushing Oparara River slowly became more distant as we neared the flattened semi-summit before the track splits to the proper Loop track.

It was incredible according to locals, to see the damage the storm had done, by tornadoes, with beech trees everywhere fallen over.

We had lunch here using cut log sections from the fallen trees that we conveniently placed in a circle, providing comfortable seating. There was an eerie silence (likely due to the lack of trees) as there was virtually no bird song other than the flitting fantail that had followed us up, chirping away.

After lunching was completed, we headed off on the “new” Fenian Caves Loop Track, as parts of the old track were destroyed during the storm. The new patches were not very friendly on the knees and combined with some previous heavy rain proved very slippery.

Abound in the area are weka and after our fantail left us, a weka took its place and decided to keep us company for a while.

The Loop includes three caves, two of them are fantastic for viewing and have some impressive tites and mites to enjoy gandering at. The highlight of the track would be Tunnel Cave which you actually have to pass through to complete the Loop.

Miner’s Cave presents like a large mouth and traipsing inside is easily done without having to duck. It suddenly narrows reminding you to keep on truckin on the Loop.

After a bit more grunting through the bush, you arrive at Tunnel Cave.

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. rowing and afterwards all hands are on deck as you manoeuvre around to get safely down. The journey through Tunnel Cave is far too short and sweet with the total distance being around 80m.

Shortly before rejoining the bridle track you happen across Cavern Creek Cave. With lower waters the cave is apparently passable but we obviously came too soon after some rains.

Visible in the gloomy waters were some eels, adding a level of creepiness to the appearance of this cave. After rejoining the bridle track, the moving becomes much easier. The grunts needed to get through the bush and the short steep slides as a result of the track

Above: and below: Exploring Miners Cave.

Opposite page above: Meandering through the broken track.

damage were left behind. Easy walking back out and before we knew it we were at the carpark.

Looking back up the track and it’s sad the the good times are over. It was a bit of tough work but totally worth it. We added our own new comments to the intentions book, agreeing with those ones previously, that indeed the DOC measurements are just a tad out.

Its at least four hours (not three) and 9.5 km (not 5 km).

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My Favourite Walk

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Pine Valley Walk a cool walk in Mt Richmond Forest Park

By Lana O’Sullivan

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nother hot, humid day and the thought of a damp shady forest entices me to make a quick decision. My friend and I are off to Pine Valley in Mt Richmond Forest Park.

The plan for the day is to take our time and stroll to the base of the ridge leading up to Mount Fishtail.

The track follows the Pine Valley stream and is about a seventy-minute walk one way, but today time is irrelevant, we just want to be out and about in the cool of the forest.

Pine Valley is 35 kms from Blenheim and to get there you drive towards Nelson and turn left just after the Wairau River Bridge into Northbank Road. It’s another 25 kms to the clearly signed turn-off to the car park.

From the carpark, we follow the track to Mill Flat and wind our way above the stream through a small patch of sweet-smelling pine forest and scattered natives.

There is a good viewpoint for taking photos of Mt Fishtail along the way before arriving at the swing bridge.

Mill flat is a large open grassy area surrounded by beech forest and is a designated Department of Conservation Campsite. You can take a 4WD there if you are prepared to ford the creek at the carpark.

After crossing the swing bridge, we Above left: The turn- off to Pine Valley from Northbank Road.

Middle left: The swing bridge near Mill Flat.

Below left: East going on this part of the walk.

Below right: Pine Valley Stream.

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enter a cool, shaded forest. The track is wide and littered with many years of decomposed leaves making it soft underfoot.

Five finger, coprosma, lancewood, rimu and other broadleaves intermingle with mixed beech forest.

Another twenty minutes of walking and we arrive at a small clearing where the old Pine Valley hut site used to be.

Regrettably, in 2014 it burnt down.

Entering a gap into the forest the track continues alongside the stream, here and there sunlight filters through the trees, highlighting shapes and different shades of green.

It’s too perfect to keep walking, and I stop for a moment to take some photos of a miniature moss garden. Nearby a fantail flits about catching insects I’ve stirred up, sadly, it’s the only forest bird I see or hear for the day.

As we get closer to the ridge leading up to Mt Fishtail the track narrows and a few rocky watercourses cross our path needing extra care after the previous week’s rain. Nothing too hard, but a little slippery underfoot.

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nestle against some rocks looking at the first two steep zig-zags of the track leading up the ridge.

Last time I snaked my way down from Mt Fishtail, it felt like shattered shards of glass in my kneecaps. It was long and relentless. For now, I am quite content to relax by the stream under the overhanging canopy before wandering back along the track.

Mt Richmond Forest Park lies between Nelson and Marlborough and is the second largest forest park in New

Above: Stopping to have a break and enjoy the cool bush conditions.

Below right The beech forest further up the valley.

Zealand.

The highest Peak is Mt Richmond at 1,760 metres. Mount Fishtail is 1,641 metres. There are several short walks up the different valleys from Northbank Road and longer multiday walks into the heart and top of the ranges.

The Pine Valley walk is a good example of a lowland-podocarp-beech forest.

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New Zealand Walk

By Bob Hodgson

Wednesday city group take on the Rimutuka Rail Trail drained most trampers of any good intentions to tramp much further on.

There were a few cyclists in evidence, a second group of mature trampers and a large party of high school students making the full crossing.

So having inspected the old machinery and enjoyed a leisurely lunch we tramped down again in warm conditions.

We were all safely out well before the 3.30pm deadline and then proceeded in a loose convoy to The Bakery in Carterton. There we were made welcome and recognised as an MTSC group from our last call almost a year ago.

It was an easy tramp-with-a-difference enjoyed in sunny conditions.

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hirty keen Wednesday Trampers of the Manawatu Tramping & Ski Club, assembled at the Cross Creek Road, south of Featherston in the Wairarapa in near perfect conditions to tramp up to nthe summit of the Rimutaka Rail Trail and for some, beyond.

The track was dry and, perhaps for the first time in six months of tramping, we experienced no mud with only a few small pools of water in the tunnels.

On the ascent the bush was beautiful and the track side adorned with numerous fox gloves. We emerged from the upper tunnel (as indicated on the GPS plot by the lack of white plot points), to a beautiful, tranquil landscape that

Above left: Time to stop for lunch.

Above right: Coming down Siberia Gully.

Below left: There is light at the end of this tunnel!

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Trail great for families with kids

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he Rimutaka Rail Trail is a gently graded 18 km walk or mountain bike ride and makes up part of the Nga Haerenga, New Zealand Cycle Trail, ‘Great Ride’, Rimutaka Cycle Trail.

The walk is excellent for families with children who can be coaxed along by the next railway ruin, old rail bridge or tunnel (definitely take a torch). The

walk is graded as intermediate.

A rail route established in 1878 between the Hutt Valley and Featherston carried passengers up the steep incline from the Rimutaka summit to Featherston until the opening of the Rimutaka Rail Tunnel in 1955. The innovative Fell mountain railway system pulled trains up the steep slope of the Rimutaka Incline.

Interpretation panels telling the colourful stories associated with the former rail line have been installed along the trail.

There are plenty of photo opportunities along the trail, and a viewing platform located between the Summit and Siberia Tunnels offers a panoramic view of the old Fell engine route coming up from Cross Creek to the Summit.

To get a better feel for the history of the trail, make sure to take time to visit the Fell Engine Museum in Featherston.

There’s camping at Ladle Bend and the Summit along the Rimutaka Rail Trail. The camping area at Ladle Bend lies below the Rail Trail near the Pakuratahi River. There is a pit toilet at Ladle Bend and flush toilets at the Summit.

How to get there Turn off SH 2, 9 km north of Upper Hutt, the turn off is signposted to Pakuratahi Forest. The carpark is 1 km along a metal road.

You can also access the trail from Cross Creek in the Rimutaka Forest Park, about an hour and 15 minutes drive from Wellington across the Rimutaka Hill Road. Turn onto Moore St, Featherston, continue into Western Lake Rd, and turn right onto Cross Creek Road. www.walkingnewzealand.co.nz

Railway trail popular with walkers as well as cyclists

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he famous Rimutaka Incline converted to a walking and biking track follows the famous Rimutaka Incline railway line.

From part way through the Summit Tunnel down to the rail yards the slope is typically 1 in 15 - a modest gradient for a mountain bike, but extremely steep for a railway line.

Along the way there are three tunnels to pass through (in order, from the top): Summit Tunnel (576m long), Siberia Tunnel (108m long), and Prices Tunnel (98m long).

It is advisable to take a light of some form for the Summit Tunnel. Although the Summit Tunnel is straight - so the other end is always visible - it can be quite a disorienting experience with only the light at the far end of the tunnel for guidence.

The other tunnels are curved but are sufficiently short that they don’t really require a light (though having a light wouldn’t hurt).

About 0.4km down hill from the Summit Tunnel there is a lookout (down a spur) that provides sweeping views of the valley. The views are worth the short diversion.

Just below the Siberia Tunnel is Horseshoe Gully - otherwise known as “Siberia” due to the local micro-climate.

There was a curved earth embankment across the gully until, in 1967, it was washed away.

Now there is a deep gully that has signs stating “Steep, slippery approach to creek bed. Cyclists are advised to dismount and walk”. Chances are you’ll have to dismount to cross the creek and ascend the other side anyway. Note that the track on the summit side of the gully is about 25m upstream of the track on the Cross Creek side.

As would be expected from an old railway line, the track itself is fairly smooth and evenly graded with gentle curves. Nonetheless, watch out for the occasional rut and stone on the track especially if descending at speed.

The bottom of the track is at the old rail yards that formed the Cross Creek Station and settlement. From there, either return back up the incline or continue along the Cross Creek trackRimutaka Rail Trail – 3 hours one way Turn off SH 2, 9 km north of Upper Hutt, the turn off is signposted to Pakuratahi Forest. The car park is 1km along a metal road.

You can also access the trail from Cross Creek in the Rimutaka Forest Park, about 15 minutes drive from Featherston. Turn onto Moore Street, Featherston, continue onto Western Lake Road, and turn right onto Cross Creek Road.

Shuttles can be arranged for return transport.

Above right: Members of the Wednesday Trampers at the Summit of the Rimutaka Incline.

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Photo Contest

We are looking for the best digital photos each month depicting walking Now the time to get your digital camera out or look through your digital images and enter the

Walking New Zealand Digital Photo Contest

The image could be a scenic scene, a walk on the beach with the dog, a bush walk, a street walk or anything walking that takes your fancy.

The rules are simply: there must be a person or persons walking in the picture either front, side or back on, and can be in the distance. We require an emailed image in high resolution mode, in jpeg format as an attachment, and NOT embedded in Word or in the email, and NOT a link to a website to be downloaded.

The subject line must have the words “Walking New Zealand Photo Contest” and the email must include the NAME, POSTAL ADDRESS and phone number of the person who took the photo and a small caption.

In this contest only ONE emailed photo accepted per month. Entry in the contest automatically allows us to print the image. The person who has their photo published will receive a six month subscription or a renewal to Walking New Zealand magazine of six months. If a picture is chosen for the cover page the person will receive a 12 month subscription or renewal.

Below: This photo was taken, when my girlfriend Fiona Nagy and I met up in Queenstown. It was taken at the top of Queenstown Hill. Fiona lives in Sydney and every two years we meet up to do one of the wonderful walks in NZ. This year our destination was Queenstown. We took inspiration from Walking NZ magazine from the May 2017 issue which I subscribe to. Queenstown Hill walk is 1.5km long, is built to show the past, presence and future of Queenstown and the area around Lake Wakatipu.

Along the way, you climb 500m through pine forest leading up to the summit of Te Tapunui. Along the track are six information plates explaining the different epochs on the Lake Wakatipu. At the top you are rewarded with 360 deg views of the main landmarks of the Queenstown area. With stops along the way the return trip took us 3 hours, and is a wonderful walk for people with moderate fitness. Photo by Wiebke Ashby, Ngaio, Wellington

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Monthly Photo Contest Above left: On the Hillary Trail.

My husband Bruce admiring the view up the Pararaha Valley from Muir Track. Photo

by Jo Alexander, Henderson, Auckland.

Above right: Four of us hiked to Powell Hut and then onwards and upwards to Mt Holdsworth Trig on a stunning Easter Friday in the Wairarapa. This is a picture of Sue, Melanie and Lizzie on the way down with the Waiohine River in the distance. Photo by Di Bailey, Carterton.

Below left: “Poppy Stowell celebrates mounting Panekire Bluff during the Lake Waikaremoana Great Walk”. Photo by Poppy Stowell, Papakura.

Below right; Dennis and Kerry discovering the rugged coastline at Hamilton’s Gap - Pollok, on the Awhitu Peninsula. Photo by Carol Downey, Hamilton.

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New Zealand Walk

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By Judy Eva

160 years of history - Take a walk through a beautiful garden

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n October 1861the Taranaki Provincial Council set aside 24 acres (9.4 hectares) of land and established the first public burial ground in New Plymouth. This cemetery is the resting ground for the last eight victims of Titokowaru’s war.

On the 13th of February 1869 a Maori war party of Ngati Maniopoto led by Wetere Te Rerenga killed all three men, a woman, three children and also the Weselyn missionary John Whitely who arrived shortly afterwards at the isolated Pukearuhe redoubt situated at Whitecliffs near Tongaporutu some 57 kilometres (35 miles) from New Plymouth.

There is a large headstone in memory of them in this cemetery.

This was the final act of the Taranaki wars. There are two separate monuments at the cemetery to commemorate people who died in the incident.

With the abolition of the Provincial Government in 1876 the cemetery came under the control of the New Plymouth Borough Council. Today it is controlled by the New Plymouth District Council.

The acreage is divided into the old system that was prevalent in those days of each religious denomination with their own separate area’s. In 1934 these were all disbanded due to disorganization. There is a large information signage board in the cemetery showing different coloured area’s as to where these different denomination graves still remain.

The cemetery contains the commonwealth war graves of 12 men who served in the First World War and 19 men who served in the Second World War. There is also a large area of Returned Serviceman’s graves and also those of the early infantry men along with many old New Plymouth identities.

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In 1984 a garden of remembrance was established in honour of all the still born babies that had previously been buried in an earlier era in one large grave at the rear of the cemetery and left with no identification as to where it or they were. It is still remains an unidentified large square of clay under a cherry tree that flowers in the summer. There is now a lovely black marble wall with the names of many of those babies on plaques one of them my own daughter who was stillborn in 1965. The New Plymouth District Council in their sympathy for what had occurred many years ago and the way in which these babies had been treated kindly donated the memoriam and so the Garden of Remembrance was established.

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Above top left: The beautiful Te Henui Cemetery. Above top right: In Springtime. Above middle left: Salaman’s Tomb.

Above middle right: In summer time. Below left: The information signboard in the cemetery. The white line on the left circling the trees is the Te Henui walkway. Below left: Another pretty scene in Spring.

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New Zealand Walk

160 years of history - Take a walk through a beautiful garden

a cemetery chapel on the grounds that was transferred to another area of New Plymouth in 1951 and demolished in 1973 due to deterioration which was a shame as it was certainly a piece of history gone forever.

Early burials were 10 feet down, later 8 feet until the mid seventies and were dug by hand until nine years ago. Many of the older grave fronts have collapsed inward due to the type of stone that was used in those days but the later ones are now made with concrete.

There is also the large tomb of Abraham Walley Mohamed Salaman a world renowned herbalist. He had to obtain special permission to build it which he did and completed in the late 1940’s.

The outside is constructed of painted concrete and is approximately 15 feet square. It has a large square blue dome on top and four blue plinths one on each corner which serve to ventilate and light the tomb. The entrance has a locked iron rail double gate and double wooden doors, each with a star and moon crescent hollowed out. There used to be two clay urns sitting between the gate and the door with BISMULLAH engraved on their rims. They have now been placed inside for safety because of vandals.

There are three marble steps leading down from the door into the tomb. The lower eight feet of wall and side coffin supports are in 12 inch green marble tiles. The top half of the wall and dome are painted the same colour green.

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The coffin is oak with three brass handles on each side.

A brass plaque is on the top and reads ABRAHAM WALLEY SALAMAN DIED 8TH FEB 1941. On the floor scattered around the room are several vases and a green clay frog approximately 12 inches high.

The only light into the room is through the door. The tomb is no longer open to the public.

This cemetery would have to be one of the most beautiful in New Zealand. It is well maintained, an absolute delight to wander through and to learn about the early history on the gravestones some of which are beautiful marble figurines and old wrought iron fence railings entwined in creeping plants and old roses. There is so much history and so many stories to be told. A view from the top of the hill is spectacular showing both the mountain and the sea. It is like wandering through a beautiful garden that has been maintained by dedicated volunteers.

An added bonus is the fact that it is situated between two amazing walkways. It sits above the popular Te Henui cycling/ walking track and on the right up on the top of the rear hill in the cemetery the old Te Henui Walking Track which is separated from the main track by the river which flows between Above: Rear of the cemetery the R.S.A. plots. The signpost at the bottom leads down to the Te Henui Walkway which is on the other side of the trees. www.walkingnewzealand.co.nz

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the both tracks that take you out to Cumberland Street exit and both approximately an hour’s walk. The cemetery can be accessed from the main Te Henui walkway from the east end of the beach and is signposted further along the walkway.

This amazing cemetery is beautiful in all seasons, especially spring, summer and autumn. Winter has its own charm as well.

Make it a destination and on your bucket list next time you visit New Plymouth.

The main entrance is situated at the intersection of Watson and 173 Lemon Street where the memorial gates were installed in 1924. It is just south of the New Plymouth Girls high school. There is plenty of parking just follow the road right around the cemetery.

There are no toilets on the grounds and the cemetery is dog friendly as long as they are under control. Take your camera and enjoy. Time for this amble could be several hours or more depending on your interest in reading the inscriptions on the head stones and enjoying the rustic character of an old lovely cemetery. There is an evening guided walk through there each January during the school holidays.

Above left: A rustic path walk. Above right: Blossoms in Spring.

Above middle right; Flowers bloom beside toombstones.

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Need 2 Know

“We thank Te Kawerau ā Maki for the collaborative work they have undertaken with the council on this exceedingly complex issue, and the community for their feedback and engagement that has contributed to the final decision being made today,” says Cr Hulse.

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High-risk tracks in Hunua Ranges to close

Waitākere Ranges forests now closed

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he f o r e st e d areas of the Waitākere Ranges Regional Park will be closed from 1 May to prevent the spread of, and protect against, kauri dieback disease.

The decision was made on 10 April by Auckland Council’s Environment and Community Committee.

“The management of kauri dieback disease has been one of the most complex and challenging issues that Auckland Council has been faced with,” says Councillor Penny Hulse, who chairs the committee.

“Today, we have taken bold action. The

closure of the Waitākere Ranges forest will provide the highest level of protection to kauri, to ensure that future generations can experience and enjoy this precious taonga.”

Some exceptions to Waitākere closures

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The council also agreed to close further higher-risk tracks in the Hunua Ranges Regional Park. These measures aim to prevent the introduction of the disease into the park, where it has not yet been detected.

Controlled Area Notices under development

Auckland Council has been working with the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) on Controlled Area Notices (CANs) for the Waitākere and Hunua ranges.

Under the arrangements being developed, open areas in the Waitākere and Hunua forests will become Controlled Areas under the Biosecurity Act, and anyone using them will need to comply with the instructions at cleaning stations and park entrances. A CAN comes with enforcement tools, including prosecution, if people fail to comply.

Compliance with these CANs will be enforced by Auckland Council, while MPI will monitor the CANs’ implementation, including people’s use of hygiene stations.

Work on track closure to begin soon

Auckland Council staff will now begin to decommission tracks, remove signage and begin the process of restricting access to the Waitākere Ranges Regional Park.

Staff will work to prioritise initial track upgrades and improvements in the Waitākere Ranges Regional Park to re-establish coastal connectivity and multi-day walking opportunities, as suggested during the public engagement process, to mitigate the impact on park users and operators.

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Hawke’s Bay Trails – Waimarama Road to be improved

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he Hawkes BayRegional Council is working with landowners, iwi and local interests to reinstate a popular section of ‘Hawke’s Bay Trail’ on Waimarama Road near Havelock North.

This section of Hawke’s Bay Trails known to the project team as the ‘mad mile’ ran from the Te Mata-Mangaterertere Road – River Road intersection over a fast, narrow, hilly section of road as far as Craggy Range winery. The 1,300m length section has been an issue for the Council due to safety concerns voiced by the government’s authorising agency New Zealand Cycle Trail Inc. “The mad mile section of trail doesn’t fit with the rest of Hawke’s Bay Trails, which offers a safer experience for a range of cyclists and walkers, locals and visitors,” says Asset Management Group Manager Graeme Hansen.

The mad mile section was removed from the Hawke’s Bay Trails network in 2017 as it was seen to be too dangerous,” adds Mr Hansen.

The Regional Council is working to provide a safe, off-road route giving undisturbed views of the Tukituki valley. A replacement trail section has been negotiated with affected landowners, discussed with local iwi and in conversation with Hastings District Council.

“I’d like to thank everyone involved for sorting this out and in particular for sorting the funding. I think you’re doing a great job to reinstate this piece of the trail,” says Cr Alan Dick.

“This is about maintaining a high quality product and delivering a consistent, memorable trail experience for locals and tourists,” says Cr Paul Bailey.

The mad mile replacement section is anticipated to be in place by late 2018.

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Overseas Walk

A trail of two cities

By Jim Tully

If you are planning stopovers in Santiago or Lima, Jim Tully recommends these city trails for those who enjoy exploring a city on foot.

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antiago is a sprawling city of 5.5 million in a basin about 570 metres above sea-level, its eastern edge brushing the foothills of the Andes, which form a dramatic backdrop to Chile’s capital – at least on a smog-free day when snow-capped peaks loom large.

It’s one of my favourite cities and after six visits I thought I knew it well especially the leafy streets of Providencia, an upmarket commune popular with tourists and the diplomatic community for its cafes, restaurants, shops and cultural attractions.

Santiago’s immaculate, efficient and cheap metro has you in the CBD in a few minutes or, for the flat rate of about $1.20, you can go to the eastern end of the line and the highly regarded Los Dominicos artisans’ market with 200 stalls set in the peaceful grounds of a

former monastery.

For serious walkers (and mountain bikers) San Carlos de Apoquinda National Park, just 6kms from Los Dominico station, offers excellent trails in the foothills of the Andes.

Our hotel was close to the Manuel Montt metro station. By coincidence, our two nights coincided with the visit of Pope Francis who was staying a little further up Avenida Providencia. As a result, this normally bustling avenue was fenced off and there was a heavy police presence. We saw El Papa three times being driven to and from the city and although not of his faith we felt the wave of excitement that washed over the crowds waiting for a glimpse of him.

We decided to explore Providencia by heading off in a new direction, about 300 metres up Avenida Manuel Montt to the Mapocho River, which begins in the

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Andes and splits Santiago in two. We set ourselves up for a day s walking with breakfast at Coffee and Me, a great little café on Manuel Montt, where the barista, who lived in Melbourne for nine years, makes excellent coffee.

We turned right on to a walking track overlooking the river which at this point is usually a trickle in a canal, whose stone walls are a popular ‘canvas’ for street artists and political activists. Dozens of cyclists were taking advantage of the public holiday to mark the Pope’s visit by riding the cycleway between walkers and joggers and the tree-lined Avenida Andres Bello. Thanks to a group of cycling enthusiasts, who persuaded President Michelle Bachelet to support Mapocho Pedaleable, this path will be significantly upgraded and extended by December 2019.

As we walked on through Parque Uruguay with its well-equipped exercise station up ahead, with a backdrop of the Andes, was the towering 300-metre Costanera Centre, the tallest building and largest mall in South America and the second-tallest building in the Southern Hemisphere. Opened in 2012, it absolutely dominates a city that has many skyscrapers despite its propensity for earthquakes.

After about 3kms we reached the centre, crossed the river and headed back towards Manuel Montt through Parque Republica de Ecuador and the wonderful Parque de las Esculturas, a sculpture park featuring the works of more than 30 renowned Chilean artists and an exhibition hall. The park was created in 1982 to restore an area of gardens badly damaged after one of the worst floods in Santiago’s history. It is a photographer’s delight.

We crossed the river to where we had started at Avenida Manuel Montt then walked about 3kms following the river to the central market through a series of parks – Avacion, Balmaceda and Forestal – enjoying the shade on a hot Santiago summer’s day.

Just past Parque Balmaceda at Plaza Baquedano, it is worth deviating across the river to Barrio Bellavista, which travel books usually label Santiago’s” bohemian quarter” with its restaurants, bars, clubs and boutiques. It’s a great place for handicrafts especially jewellery made from the distinctive blue lapis Above left: Tree-lined Parque Forestal offers shade for walkers in Santiago. www.walkingnewzealand.co.nz

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lazuli stone.

Bellavista is at the foot of Cerro San Cristobal, which rises 300 metres above the city offering a stunning panorama.

It’s about a 40-minute walk to the summit where there is a 22-metre high statue of the Virgin Mary, a chapel and amphitheatre used for masses. The summit is accessible by road or a funicular adjacent to the Chilean National Zoo. If you continue through Parque Forestal past the National Museum of Fine Arts you reach the central market (Mercado Central). From here, it is a short walk to Santiago’s main square, the Plaza de Armas and Ahumada, the busy pedestrian thoroughfare in the city centre.

Turn left on to Augustine and after 500 metres you are at the entrance of Santa Lucia, the 70-metre remnant of a volcano where Spanish conquistador Pedro de Valdivia announced the founding of Santiago in 1540 and established a fort. Now, it is a most attractive park with ornate buildings, stairways and

Above left: The larger-than-life sculpture, The Kiss, is a feature of Parque del Amor on the Miraflores walkway in Lima.

Above right: South America’s tallest building, the Costanera Centre, dominates the Santiago skyline.

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A trail of two cities

fountains. Santa Lucia metro station is on the red line and just four stops from Manuel Montt.

We did not divert to Bellavista or Santa Lucia on this walk as our main aim was to follow the Mapocho River from Providencia into the city centre. In our experience, it would be worth devoting half a day to Bellavista and Cerro San Cristobal and a couple of hours to Santa Lucia.

Unlike land-locked Santiago, Peru’s capital Lima is on the coast sprawling across the arid valleys of three rivers that flow into the Pacific. For many, this city of 9.7 million is a brief stopover before heading to Lake Titicaca, Cusco and Machu Picchu.

There is a desert-like feel to Lima, which has just 6mm of rain a year but its constantly high humidity sustains plant life. It also generates a constant grey haze from May to November, which locals call panza de burro – donkey’s belly. The weather in late December was perfect for walking.

There was no panza de burro when we arrived at our hotel in Miraflores, an upmarket district about 10kms south from the city centre, popular with tourists and noted for its parks and green spaces. We stayed, as many Kiwis have, at Hotel Tierra Viva on Calle Bolivar a short walk from the hub of Miraflores, Parque Kennedy. Another bonus of

the location is across the street – True Caffé where they serve great coffee from breakfast until late.

Surrounded by shops and restaurants, Parque Kennedy was named after President John F Kennedy in thanks for the aid given to Peru during his presidency. It has become famous for the more than 100 stray cats that live there with the blessing of the Municipality of Miraflores.

You can buy handicrafts at a small market in the park but nearby on Avenida Petit Thours at the mercado indio dozens of artisans’ shops sell alpaca products, silver jewellery and Peruvian handicrafts.

We had tasty, fresh sandwiches at La Tiendecita Blanco, a Swiss café overlooking the manicured grass of the Miraflores Oval adjacent to Parque Kennedy and then joined Avenida Jose Pardo, which has a most pleasant walkway down its middle, so we could join the Malecon about 2kms away.

The Malecon is a superb 10km walkway along 70-metre high cliffs overlooking the Pacific. Down below are beaches popular with surfers including Makaha and Waikiki, so named by Carlos Dogny, a Peruvian sugarcane heir who returned to Lima from Hawaii in 1942 with a surfboard.

At the bottom of Jose Pardo, we crossed to Parque Grau, the northern

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Above left: The clifftop Miraflores walkway is the premier paragliding sport in Peru.

Above right: Seventy-metre cliffs stand between the Pacific Ocean and the Miraflores walkway.

starting point of the Malecon, which follows a series of parks to Parque Amendariz. Along the way, there are impressive sculptures, notably, at Parque Del Amor, Peruvian artist Victor Delfin’s powerful depiction of lovers in an embrace. The wall on the seaward side of the park features mosaics inspired by the Spanish architect/artist Antoni Gaudi in which quotes about love by Peruvian writers are embedded.

Parque del Libro is dominated by a seven-metre high, colourful totem, Silencio, by Jose Tola. When it was installed four years ago it provoked controversy with some locals calling it a monster that would frighten children.

More likely to get your adrenalin pumping is paragliding- year-round - from the clifftop at Parque Antonio Raimondi. For shoppers, it is hard to go past the Larcomar shopping complex on Parque Salazar.

After a most enjoyable walk, we found our way up Avenida Jose Larco to Calle Bolivar and a much-needed coffee at True Caffe. www.walkingnewzealand.co.nz

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Cape Brett Lighthouse overnight walk in BOI Walking Festival

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By Brita Marti

t last! I was so excited to actually be going to walk the Cape Track after living in the area for 25 years, and I was going along with seven other good friends.

There were three of us in our 50/60s and five from the generation below. So many years of hearing about others doing the walk and, as I work in the tourism industry, many years of helping others plan the trip.

So the first challenge is to work out the best way to tackle the route for your group and I reckon we chose well. Drive the 45 minutes from Paihia to RÄ whiti via the car ferry and take a water taxi www.wainot.co.nz from there to Deep Water Cove, leaving car safely with Louise and Bob from the water taxi.

First days walk is from Deep Water Cove to Cape Brett and stay overnight at the hut there. The second days walk is the 16 kms from the lighthouse back to RÄ whiti.

All went very smoothly for us with great planning from various members of our team. We headed off at midday by water taxi with all our gear.

The weather for the whole two days was spectacular and I guess that made the whole trip just that bit more wonderful.

Bob had local stories to tell on the 20 minute boat ride including reminding us that there were seven maunga along the ridge with plenty of ups and downs! Deep Water Cove was

Above: Cape Brett Lighthouse. Photo by Alexandra Green.

Right: Brita Marti and Alexandra Green in front of a backdrop of islsands. www.walkingnewzealand.co.nz

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Cape Brett Lighthouse overnight walk in BOI reached the high point on the narrowest part of the walk Walking Festival and more WOWs - views both sides. Then the start of long

so inviting that most of us took a swim before we headed off and Jim reminisced about his last trip there on scout camp 45 years ago when there were still buildings from Zane Greys camp.

Refreshed we headed off uphill #1. As it was the hottest part of the day I was pleasantly surprised that there was a reasonable amount of shade, mainly mānuka scrub, until we got up to the first of so many spectacular views and our first glimpse of the seaward end of the peninsula – Rākaumaunamaunga. Here was bright blue sea, bright blue sky and decorations of white surf around the rocky coast line.

It was a few more downs, ups, views, streams until we

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descent when we thought how lucky we were that the clay path wasn’t wet.

We soon forgot that a long down means a long up later when we caught sight of the Lighthouse, Motu Kōkako (Piercy Island) and the large rock between (I now know that this is called Otuwhanga Island) and watched a couple of the charter boats head through the Hole in the Rock. More WOWs. Then our overnight hut comes into sight, still way below Above: What a view looking out over the Pacific Ocean.

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Below: The view looking back over the many islands in the Bay of Islands area. Photo by Alexandra Green.

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and an open grassy walk down but time to enjoy views left and right, as well as thinking about taking the boots off. Several of us went for a swim at the landing point just below the hut where the current wasn’t too strong.

This area has remains from the lighthouse keeper days with tracks for transporting all the families needed to live and run the lighthouse up from the delivery boats.

The hut is great and our group settled into one section with nine beds. There are two other areas, one with 13 beds / bunks and the other two beds. The hut was full with 23 people, but plenty of room in the kitchen dining area and the facilities lived up well to our expectations.

We heated up ready cooked mince in the provided pots and boiled water for drinks but were self sufficient with what we had brought with us for the rest of our meals. We were lucky to have three strong 20s males to carry the majority of the weight. The hut has plenty of books about the days when it was one of three homes for the lighthouse keepers and families. What an interesting life they lead.

As we had such glorious weather the inside of the hut was less important. Sunset was at about 7.45pm and we enjoyed this from a ridge a few minutes from the hut with such spectacular colours.

Not long after we watched an almost full moon rising over the water in the east. This was very special. Bed called soon after, and I was happy with my sleep sheet and thin blanket and imagine this would be plenty most of summer.

It was also quieter on the plastic mattresses than a sleeping bag and easier to cover my head when ‘ that one mosquito’ started flying around.

We were pleased that we picked the ideal day, just before the clocks went back for autumn, meaning sunrise was not too early, just 7.30am.

We enjoyed the walk over to the eastern side to soak up wonderful pre sunrise colours and textures and then the dawn colours. We will have great memories of our stay in a very special place.

An hour or so later it was on again with the boots and slightly lighter packs for our day up and down the maunga (mountains) beginning with the one we knew – the zig zag path from the hut to the lighthouse and trig point above.

The ups and downs heading back along the peninsula towards rawhiti began with views out to the open sea and down as far as the Poor Knights Islands, with beautiful coastline, beaches and forest. Mānuka and kānuka scrub turned into more varied bush and the odd grove with nīkau palms. Lots of kowhai too, that must look so pretty later in the year and reminded me of the last time I had walked to Whangamumu when kowhai were in spectacular flower.

The lack of flowers and berries this time of year must be the reason for very few birds in the bush apart from fantails and the odd tui and black robin.

Further down the track the views were more back toward the Bay of Islands, but ever changing angles meant varied views of the closest islands and the distant mainland, but a chance for a quick wave back home.

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After about four and a half hours we were gradually starting to think I don’t want to go down again if it means another up but got to the predator fence that we reckoned was pretty close to the biggest ‘up’ to Pukehuia and more views.

The last hour is pretty much downhill. Just remember if you are thinking of doing the track the reverse way, ending up right at the lovely sandy Oke Bay, this is a wonderful way to complete the walk with a welcome swim in such clear and not too cold water.

It is then just a short walk to pick cars up and head home. https://www.topomap.co.nz/NZTopoMap/nz12187/ Motukokako-Island-(Piercy-Island)/ I loved the walk, being out in the open, the challenge of a really good walk, an amazingly beautiful part of New Zealand, great company, the experience of Cape Brett overnight and such good weather.

This walk actually combines two walks that are on the Bay of Islands Walking Weekend walks. The overnight Cape Brett Walk – which is a drop off and pick up from Deep Water Cover where you stay out at Cape Brett, and the Pukehuia and Whangamumu Whaling Walk where you start at Rawhiti and climb Pukehuia and make your way to Whangamumu. Spectacular views and scenery on these very untouched walks.

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The story of the modern

‘A Pennine Journey’

By David Pitt

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n September 1938, Alfred Wainwright (AW), now well known for his Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells in Cumbria, England, made a solitary walk through the Pennines as the storm clouds were gathering over Europe.

‘There seemed no escape from the atmosphere of gloom and despondency........things were getting worse day by day. But I was fortunate in having a fortnight’s holiday due, and I fled the familiar scene.’ wrote AW a year later.

Other travellers in Britain, going back many years, had written about their journeys but his idea of a long distance walk could be said to have been the seed corn that has led to the wonderful variety of walking routes in Britain.

He had taken a break from his job

as a clerk at Blackburn Town Hall and headed to Settle in North Yorkshire for his walk “....which should take me by way of the Yorkshire Dales and Durham along the eastern flanks of the Pennines as far as Tynedale, from which faraway valley I planned to return along the western slopes of the range.”

During the walk he sent back postcards on which were probably his first landscape sketches.

The following year he wrote a narrative description of the walk, showed it to some colleagues and put the manuscript away in a drawer where it remained untouched for nearly forty-eight years.

Nearly thirty years after his Pennine Journey AW wrote the Pennine Way Companion in 1968: still for many the definitive guide to Britain’s first Na-

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tional Trail – something he had planned during the 1950/60’s whilst engaged on his fells guides.

Then, after writing his pictorial guides, ‘Walks on the Howgill Fells’ and ‘Walks in Limestone Country’ covering an area close to where he lived in Kendal, in 1973 he published his Coast to Coast Walk – now one of the world’s most popular walks which passes 200 yards from where I live.

Perhaps here I should mention my introduction to long distance footpath walking.

It was in the mid-1970s that I came across AW’s guide to the Coast to Coast Walk being already familiar with his pictorial guides through my father who had retired to the Lakes.

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Left: A distant view of Cautley Spout in the Howgill Fells.

Above: Hull Pot - reputedly the largest natural ‘hole’ in Britain.

forced ‘retirement’ from the Round Table movement and planned a ‘final fellowship fling’ along the Coast to Coast Walk. Not surprisingly, as until then I had been a golfer more than a walker, I arrived at Robin Hood’s Bay totally exhausted with the firm resolve never to get involved in any similar venture.

However, when the fatigue and blisters were no more, I remember experiencing a warm glow of satisfaction on

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my achievement. Next year my father, then aged 77 and doing his only long distance walk, joined me along the 84 mile Dales Way: thus began a sequence of annual long distance walks that has continued to this day.

My wife, Heather, was introduced to the fells and long distance walks soon after we met and by autumn 1986 we had completed our first Wainwright ‘round’ of the Lakeland fells and were firm AW admirers and long distance footpath walkers, having completed the 630 mile South West Way in five stages from Poole to Minehead.

Others followed and in 1991 my early

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was planning it today.

Then, country roads held little danger – 60 years (and now 80 years) later it is a different kettle of fish! The walk takes in sections of other paths such as the Pennine Way, Ribble Way, Dales Way, and the Hadrian’s Wall Walk as well as AW’s ‘Walks in Limestone Country.’

At Keld on its way north and at Kirkby Stephen on its way south it crosses the route of AW’s Coast to Coast Walk. So the modern ‘A Pennine Journey’ (which we called the Settle to Settle Walk) was

The story of the modern

‘A Pennine Journey’

retirement was celebrated by walking the South Downs Way from Eastbourne to Winchester Cathedral from where we set out on a mixture of the North Downs Way and the Pilgrims Way to Canterbury Cathedral.

However in 1986 we had learned of the publication of ‘A Pennine Journey - The Story of a Long Walk in 1938’ which had arisen when, whilst working with AW in early spring of 1984 on ‘Wainwright on the Pennine Way’ book, his editor Jenny Dereham was told about it

by AW. She recounted the occasion in the Wainwright Society’s ‘Footsteps’ magazine recently when he talked about his walk ”for some fifteen minutes” and on being given a “tatty brown envelope” containing the manuscript Jenny was enjoined “I won’t want it changed, mind,

even if it does seem dated”.

After I retired, whilst Heather and I were debating what was to be our next walk, I remembered the following extract from the introduction to AW’s Coast to Coast Walk guide advising walkers to “. . . .devise with the aid of maps their own cross-country marathons”.

AW’s ‘A Pennine Journey’ came to mind, so we re-read it and started to plan that winter, but did not complete until 1998 following a move to the Lake District in 1993, our “own cross-country marathon”. It is unashamedly based on AW’s ‘ A Pennine Journey’ and uses as many of the places AW mentioned in his book as possible, using public footpaths and not the roads that he used in 1938 - a route that AW might have chosen if he

born: completed, coincidentally, on the 60th anniversary of AW setting out on his ‘A Pennine Journey’.

However the next chapter in the story had to wait until the founding of the Wainwright Society. At its first AGM of the newly formed Wainwright Society in 2004 I suggested that our 1998 walk could be a participatory venture for members of the Society. The committee agreed and we revised our original route into 18 daily stages with members walking and test walking each stage and providing route descriptions.

The original project was enhanced Above: The Eden Millenium Benchmark ‘Water Cut’ below Mallerstang Edge in the Eden Valley.

Middle right: AW’s sketch from the book of his route.

Below left: High Force on the River Tees.

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when Colin Bywater offered to provide black and white sketches and Ron Scholes (who had been a friend of AW) offered to draw detailed route maps at 2½ inches to the mile such as these of AW’s primary objective – Hadrian’s Wall.

The varying route descriptions were edited into a common format, then merged with the illustrations and route maps into what the publishers Frances Lincoln described as a ‘pictorial guide’ – an accolade that delighted Heather and I as this description had hitherto only been used for AW’s guides!

Over 40 members and friends were present at Settle station for its launch on a perfect day for walking in April 2010.

To make this a tangible tribute to AW a website was established with, importantly, an accommodation register so that walkers could plan their own ‘journey’ and Brigantes Walking Holidays set up a baggage courier service.

The Pennine Journey Supporters Club was established and the endorsement of all the highway agencies along the route was obtained. Funds raised from guide book sales enabled the entire route to be waymarked by the 75th anniversary of AW’s 1938 walk.

The next step was to get the route onto Ordnance Survey maps especially given AW’s love of the work of the Ordnance Survey – “I admire their work immensely, being lost in admiration of all their work.” By February 2016 the route was on all relevant Explorer and Landranger maps and to a large degree this tribute to Alfred Wainwright could Above: Settle station - the beginning/ end of the walk.

Middle right: The first edition (1986) of his narrative.

Below left: Horton Church - considered amongst the earliest, if not the first, of AW’s landscape sketches.

Below right: Colin Bywater’ sketch of Cuddy’s Crags on Hadrian’s Wall.

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be said to be complete.

AW’s careful planning nearly 80 years ago means that it traverses some of the most delightful walking terrain in northern England: savour delightful river valleys, high fells and wide expanses of moorland; be fascinated by the historic places on its route, with the World Heritage Site of Hadrian’s Wall pre-eminent; and enjoy the hospitality of the towns and villages along the route The latest testimonial came from a young lady who walked the route last year with her grandparents and raised over £4000 in sponsorship for an outdoor classroom for street children in Kenya.

“The walk covered a wide range of different terrain and scenery and every day was amazing………. I would recommend the walk to anyone who wants to see, in a comparatively short space of time, a large part of the magnificent range of scenery that northern England has to offer. It really is a beautiful walk…….”

“Bigger than the Coast to Coast,

more beautiful than the Pennine Way: discover the incredible trail that’s Wainwright’s greatest gift to walkers” was a recent claim by the Country Walking magazine after they had discovered it – but is it true? The only way would be for you to come (or return) to England and try it!

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EVENT

The Great New Zealand Trek - Ophir to Lawrence

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By Frances Harrison

he Great New Zealand Trek covering the length of New Zealand which began twelve years ago at Cape Reinga as a fundraising mission for multiple sclerosis, continued this year towards its goal of Bluff. Ophir, a small historic gold mining settlement in Central Otago, hosted the arrival of some 320 trekkers, from where we would follow the pink ribboned route, finishing in Lawrence seven days later.

Sadly though, this year’s Trek began on a melancholy note with the passing of Hepa Paewai shortly before the event’s first night in Ophir. Hepa had been a long time supporter of the Trek and in the past few years taken on a leading role in its organization and especially route planning. Many a hill has been has been renamed after him, in his dry manner of down-playing its rise.

So with many Hepa Hills in front of us, the route left Ophir, reputed to be one of the coldest places in the country and drew us south. Fortunately we didn’t experience -21 degrees that first night, as was recorded some years ago.

But hotties, thick sweatshirts and warm

socks did come in very handy after sundown.

We began wandering along ancient gold trails, stark rocky outcrops and through a land the locals call a desert. It was indeed a harsh, stony, dry environment. Yet amazingly wild thyme grew in masses wherever a smattering of soil lay.

This was once a popular herb the Chinese gold miners had used as food flavouring. Now having escaped the confines of a garden wall, it grew everywhere. We had just missed the flowering season but its aromatic scent filled the air.

Colour peeped out as from all places; yellows and browns of rock lichens, pinks, blues and oranges from flowers I couldn’t name, and greys and blacks of the schist, sheep and watery tarns.

Contrasting against the greens of grasses and crops were the shiny whites of the huge mushrooms and rotund puffballs.

The quantity of the mushrooms growing had to be seen to be believed. They were the giant horse mushrooms and the giant puffballs. Never have I seen them in such sheer numbers, along with their growth in such huge rings. It just added to the imagination as the size of

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the fairies in these circles!

Our wonderful caterers, Lovely Grub Location Catering accepted boxes full of these dinner plate sized mushrooms to add to our breakfast.

Central Otago is a plethora of ruins and remains from the 1860s gold mining era. Our trail took us past iron relics and along old roads shored up with schist. It went through abandoned water races, beside empty lonely buildings and alongside the fastest volume of rushing water in the country, namely the Clutha River.

Census night caught up with us and the delivery of several boxes of official papers required much attention. The acquisition of pens to fill the boxes in correctly took even longer and as to our address that night? That was the hardest question of all.

Rest day in Roxburgh was a welcome break to catch up on washing or relaxing.

Many enjoyed the retail opportunities or explored the local region by whatever means of transport they could acquire.

Local ‘Jimmy’s Pies’ were sampled and the Op Shop did a roaring trade. A visit to the Museum was very popular and extremely interesting.

Even the historic part of the local cemetery showed a fascinating insight into a life long ago.

Day 5 saw us all leaving camp again resuming our objective in getting closer to Bluff. The terrain had now changed significantly from the harsh, rocky, desert-like landscape to lush, rolling, cultivated farmland. Crops of turnips, swedes, kale, lucerne and chou moelAbove: A perfect lunch stop.

Below left: We could have been walking in Tuscany!

Below right: Bridget takes in the view.

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Readers Views

Kauri Dieback

lier were growing for extra winter stock feed.

We could have been in Tuscany, France. However in Gondwana times this area was part of an inland sea, the rolling land once the seabed. That accounted for the fossilized oyster shells I discovered.

The weather continued to be kind to us in a southern sort of way. The nights did prove colder, the tops of the hills definitely cooler, but the sun did still shine and the wet weather gear only came out of its wrappers on occasions.

Gumboots proved handy around some campsites, gloves and beanies kept extremities warm on the chilly mornings.

One such cold, foggy morning saw the beginnings of a zumba exercise class to keep the blood moving. Even the sun struggled to make its presence known for some time that day.

Local businesses along the route welcomed an influx of trekkers sampling the wares on offer, be that a cold beer, a hot chocolate or a famous southern delicacy of a cheese roll. Meanwhile back at camp, the hard working volunteer crew Above: Disappearing into the mist.

Below left: A rock ion the shape of Colonel Gadaffi.

Below right: Frances under a giant mushroom.

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had raised the massive marquee, erected tents, sited the showers and toilets, had the bar up and running and checked the caterers trucks were level. The Help-X international volunteer workers proved their worth over and again.

Just out of Lawrence, the small town’s manicured sport’s ground was the location of our last night’s camp. It came complete with a fountain after one energetic marquee crew member drove a spike into the water main!

What started out as one man’s dream has now become the adventure of a lifetime for so many people. The days begin early; they are long and often hard and Mother Nature can throw a spanner in the works at any time. The success of this event is only possible because of so many dedicated people; from the Trek Trustees to sponsors, landowners, local Councils, volunteer individuals, businesses and the trekkers.

So many people give up their time to make this Great New Zealand Trek actually happen, I would need several more sheets of paper to name them all, and

In reference to an article published in January Issue No 240 page 12 called “Walking through the Cascade Kauri Forest”, and a reader’s comment in the April edition Issue No 243 regarding the article.

Our club would like to clarify two points.

Firstly, the article your reader is referring to in the January 2018 issue of your magazine was written by a visitor to our club on the walk for the day. This walk took place in January 2017 almost a year before the rahui was put in place.

Secondly, when the rahui was implemented our club agreed to fully support it and cancelled all our walks in the affected areas.

We have always protected kauri by either using the cleaning stations provided or carrying our own spray.

Our club participated in the recent Auckland Council survey regarding further proposed Waitakere track closures and emphasised the need for upgrading tracks to kauri-safe standards, more robust education of the public regarding cleaning boots before and after walking and installing more efficient cleaning stations in the fight against kauri dieback.

Derek Nelson, President Auckland Natural History Club Inc. www.aucklandnaturalhistoryclub. org I would still be in danger of forgetting someone! I dare not try for such a list.

The Malaghan Institute of Research stands to benefit from monies raised in their search for a cure for Multiple Sclerosis. Dr Anne La Flamme, head research scientist from the Institute, joined in again for a few days bringing both daughters this year to taste the adventure.

To Hepa Paewai we remember you on every hill top. To his family, Kitty Johnson his partner, the Trustees and organizers who all stepped up to fill the breach at such a sad time, we honor, support and salute you all.

Next year sees the culmination of this odyssey. For everyone who has been part of this journey from Cape Reinga, it will be a goal well accomplished. Book 16 – 24 March 2019 in your diaries now.

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21st Great Forest events

A record number of more than 3000 people took part in 21st Great Forest events in the Waitarere Forest near Levin last month. The events include a marathon, a half marathon, a 10km and a 5km. The 5km is popular for families and the older generation. The tracks goes over varied surfaces through forests on forest single roads, sandy paths and ends over grassy slopes.

The annual event started in 1997 when around 150 walked or ran in the forest towards the Manawatu River.

That event and some future events was organised by Renee Steele.

Photos by Lisa Trow

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Right: The advertisment promoting the first event.

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Need 2 Know

‘Unashamed supporters’ launch society to save Craggy Range Track

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group of “unashamed supporters” of the Craggy Range Te Mata Peak track have formed an incorporated society to give a voice to the nearly 18,500 people who signed a recent petition to save the Craggy Range Te Mata Peak track.

Te Mata Peak Peoples’ Track Society Inc. has last month instructed its lawyer to write to Hastings District Council, putting the Council on notice of the need for public consultation on the fate of the Track, and of its intention to support the Council in defending any legal proceedings that may be brought to challenge the legality of the Track.

Peoples’ Track Society chair, George Williams said the strong support shown through the ‘Save the Craggy Range Walking Track’ online petition demonstrated that people saw the Track as a “fantastic addition to recreation and tourism in Hawke’s Bay”.

“We have formed the Society as a vehicle to promote this overwhelming public interest in retaining the Craggy Range Track.

“We are thrilled to be able to support petition initiator, Rebecca McNeur in forming an organisation to formally represent the views of those signatories. We’re thrilled that Rebecca has agreed to join the Society as secretary.”

Peoples’ Track Society spokesman, Xan Harding added, “We stand for a fair hearing for the significant number of people in Hawke’s Bay who support retention of the Track,

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far more than those that opposed it. We also adamantly believe in the need for a balanced and objective approach to determining its fate.

“We acknowledge that Iwi have a particular interest in Te Mata Peak and were not properly consulted about the Track.

“Now there needs to be local dialogue, local consensus building and the pursuit of win-win solutions to heal the division within our community,” said Mr Harding.

“Te Mata Peak undoubtedly has outstanding landscape value that should be protected but it is also an outstanding recreational feature for the region and embodies significant cultural, biodiversity and tourism values as well. All these things are important, and it should be up to the people of Hawke’s Bay to decide.”

Today Te Mata Peak Peoples’ Track Society Inc. launched an appeal via the Givealittle.co.nz crowd funding website, to raise a fighting fund to support the case for retention of the Track. Funds raised will go towards defending potential legal action, and for betterment of the Track.

The zig zag track on the eastern face of Te Mata Peak was created by Craggy Range Winery, on land it owned opposite the Giants Winery on Waimarama Road, Hastings. Hastings District Council granted resource consent for the Track and it was constructed late in 2017. Over the summer many people walked the Track amidst vocal opposition and support for its creation, which included the ‘Save the Craggy Range Walking Track’ petition.

The Track was subsequently closed by Craggy Range Winery, but people have continued to walk and enjoy it.

Conditions of consent for the Track included a perpetual access easement for the benefit of the people of Hawke’s Bay. Legal action against the Track has been threatened by Auckland-based lobby group, the Environmental Defence Society.

Above: The track on Te Mata Peak.

Right: The three founding members of the society: from left: George Williams, Rebecca McNeur and Xan Harding. www.walkingnewzealand.co.nz

CONTENTS for previous 14 issues MAY 244 2018

4 Walk Talk 6 New Zealand Walk: Cathedral Cove - one of our classic walks 9 News: Unicycling through Molesworth Station 10 New Zealand Walk: Lake Mangamahoe walk offers changing scenery 14 New Zealand event: Oxfam benefits by Trail walker event in Whakatane 15 New Zealand Event: Manawatu Walking Festival 16 Walking New Zealand Monthly Photo Contest 18 New Zealand Day Hike: Tongariro Alpine Crossing 20 My favourite Walk: Nina Valley Walk 22 Australian Walks: Great Ocean wildlife walks 23 Australian Walks: Mackenzie Falls one of the largest in area 24 New Zealand Walks: Ten days of walks and hikes in Northland 27 New Zealand Short Walks: Fox Glacier Valley Walk, Cape Foulwind Walkway 28 Overseas Walks: Stepping out on the Galapagos islands 32 My Favourite Walk: Perspiring on Pirongia 34 Te Araroa Trail: Family adventure for the ‘Swift five’ on the Te Araroa Trail 40 Overseas Walk: South West Coast Path Walk 42 Overseas Walks and Tours 44 High Achiever: Annie learnt how to make Samoan dishes healthier 46 Coming Events: New Zealand 50 Coming Events: Overseas 52 Directory of Walking Groups 56 New Zealand Country Breaks 60 Taieri Gorge Rail Walk

APRIL 243 2018

4 Walk Talk 6 New Zealand Walk: Mount Holdsworth tracks caters for all fitness levels 10 New Zealand Walk: Six ancient forests to explore in Auckland 12 New Zealand Walk: Walking the Timber Trail 12 New Zealand Day Hike: Hooker Valley Track 16 Walking New Zealand Monthly Photo Contest 18 My favourite Walk: Many paths lead up to Mt Bumblane 20 Auckland Short Walk: Explore Grey Lynn’s short walks 22 Overseas Walks: Sunshine Coast Hinterland walks 24 Event: New Course for Rotorua event 25 Subscription Form 26 My Favourite Walks: OkuraDacre Cottage Walk 29 New Zealand Short Walks: Kura Tawhiti Access Track - Lake Matherson/Te Ara Karaumatu Walk 30 New Zealand Day Hike: Cape Kidnappers Walking Track 32 New Zealand Walks: Explore the Wild West Canyons of Bannockburn sluicings 34 Readers Views; Kauri dieback 34 New Zealand Walk: Tukino Road to Waihohonui Hut 36 Overseas Walks: Around the Matterhorn 42 Overseas Walks and Tours 44 High Achiever: Joining Green Prescription a very positive step for Don 46 Coming Events: New Zealand 56 New Zealand Country Breaks 60 Taieri Gorge Rail Walk

MARCH 242 2018

4 Walk Talk 6 New Zealand Walk: Vaucluse Heights - a fitness person’s paradise 8 New Zealand Walk: Secrets and joys of a secluded paradise 11 New Zealand Day Hike: Talks pave way for a walking track on Te Mata Peak 12 New Zealand Day Hike: Hooker

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Valley Track 14 New Zealand Walks: Get a taste of the Paparoa Track and Pike 29 Memorial Track 16 Walking New Zealand Monthly Photo Contest 18 Overseas Walks: Glimpses of Guatemala: Exploring Mt Pacaya, Tikau and The Rio Dulce 23 New Zealand Short Walks: Cathedral Cove, Rangitoto Summit Track 24 Training: Training tips for taking on a NZ Great Walk 26 Overseas Walks: Six wonderful walking trails in northern England 28 Need2Know: Marine and Coastal claims - will they affect coastal walking tracks?

30 My Favourite Walk: Coromandel’s Long Bay Kauri Loop walk 35 Event: Manawatu Walking Festival bookings filling up 36 New Zealand Walk: Seaview to Petone Foreshore Walk 38 New Zealand Walk: Guided tour showscases Christchurch street art 40 Event: Striders Super Seven Series popular 42 Overseas Walks and Tours 44 High Achiever: Improved health and well being through a positive healthy outcome 46 Coming Events: New Zealand 56 New Zealand Country Breaks 60 Manawatu Walking Festival

FEBRUARY 241 2018

4 Walk Talk 6 New Zealand Walk: Mackays to Pekapeka - a shared pathway 10 New Zealand Day Hike: Roys Peak 12 Overseas Walks: Irelands most celebrated pilgrim paths identified 16 Walking New Zealand Monthly Photo Contest 18 New Zealand Walk: Virginia Lake Reser ve once a town water supply 20 Shared pathway: New cycleway cuts commute time for busy mum 21 Event: 3 new walks in Manawata Walking Festival this year 22 Need2Know: Tips for staying in DOC huts this summer 24 New Zealand Walks: Chelsea Sugar Refinery walks 2 6 N e w Z e a l a n d Wa l k : T h e Tarawera Trail around a lake of natural beauty 28 Overseas Walks: Italy’s Alpe Adria Trail links Salzburg to the Adriatic Coast 36 New Zealand Walk: Sunrise Hut for Lunch 37 New Zealand Walk: Sunrise Tracks walks 38 High Achiever: Walk’n’Talk keeps 91 year old sprightly 39 New Zealand Short Walks: Mount Manaia Track, Mangawhai Clifftops Walkway 40 New Zealand Walks: Seals, camping and short walks on SH1 journey through Kaikoura 44 Need 2 Know: Tracks closed for kauri protection in Waitakere Regional Park 46 Coming Events: New Zealand 51 Need2Know: What is Parkrun?

56 New Zealand Country Breaks 60 Manawatu Walking Festival

JANUARY 240 2018

2 The Great New Zealand Trek 4 Walk Talk 6 New Zealand Walk: Conquering the climb on Rangitoto 8 New Zealand Walk: Araheke Walk - meeting of the waters 11 New Zealand Walk: Final stage of the Waterview Shared Path is open 12 New Zealand Walk: Walking through the Cascade Kauri Forest 15 High Achiever: Never to late to make lifestyle changes 16 Walking New Zealand Monthly Photo Contest 18 New Zealand Walk: Whareroa

Timber Trail in winter 24 Overseas Walks: Walking Switzerland’s alpine world 29 Overseas Walks: Nth Stradbroke Island adds a touch of glam to the great outdoors 30 New Zealand Walks: Walking over islands of desire 36 New Zealand Walk: Iron Gate Hut walk 38 New Zealand Walk : Harr y Ell Walk 40 Overseas Walks: Climbing Mt Fuji - an iconic experience 44 Auckland Short Walk: Papakura Inlet, South Auckland 56 New Zealand Country Breaks 60 Walking Stars - Night Time Marathon

Farm Park and tracks to Orange Hut and Wainui Peak 20 My Favourite Walk: Walking on the Moon 24 Event: Another great walking weekend coming up in Mangawhai 26 Overseas Walks: Portuguese Camino Trail 30 Overseas Walk: The West Highland Way - One to be cherished and enjoyed slowly 36 My Favourite Walks: Te Puna Quarry and Puketoki Reserve two great Tauranga short walks 40 New Zealand Short Walk: A OCTOBER 237 2017 whimiscal walk in Kerikeri 4 Walk Talk 41 Subscription Form 6 My Favourite Walk: Charleston 42 Overseas Walks and Tours a hidden gem on our wild 44 Books: Kiwi on the Camino - a West Coast walk that changed my life 44 Need 2 Know: Bookable beds 12 Te Araroa Trail: The Paekakariki Escarpment beckon Track 45 Index of previous 14 issues 14 Auckland Short Walk: Belmont 46 Coming Events: New Zealand Bays walk - North Shore 50 Coming Events: Overseas 16 Walking New Zealand Monthly 56 New Zealand Country Breaks Photo Contest 60 Green Prescription New Zealand Walk: Bream DECEMBER 239 2017 18 Head Coast Walks a bird 4 Walk Talk watchers delight 6 New Zealand Walk: Aratiatia 24 New Zealand Walk: Tupare Rapids Walk with spectacular Gardens - New Plymouth water features 27 New Zealand Walk : What 10 New Zealand Walk: A walk in makes the QC Track from great Rangihoua Heritage Park where to awesome the European settlement of NZ 28 New Zealand Walk: Tramp to really begins plane crash site 13 New Zealand Walk: Te Oranga 30 Overseas Walks: Across the Waikura Urban Forest opened alps . . . Germany to Austria to 14 Overseas Walk: Walk to Sheep’s Switzerland to Italy Head Point 38 Books: A Walk a Day, New 16 Walking New Zealand Monthly Zealand on Foot and Wild Photo Contest Auckland 18 High Achievers: Keeping up with 40 New Zealand Walks: Waiheke the Green Track Group Island Walking Festival - some20 Australian Walk: Buderim Forest thing not to be missed Park in a rain forest of tall trees 44 Overseas Walks: New luxury 22 My Favourite Walk: Maketu walking holiday in Blue MounSandspit, Bay of Plenty tains 24 My favourite Walk: Tarawera 56 New Zealand Country Breaks Outlet to the falls an interest59 Green Prescription ing walk 60 Walking Stars - Night time 26 New Zealand Walk: River Road Marathon to Black Bridge, Clive 29 Te Araroa Trail: Taumaranui to SEPTEMBER 236 2017 4 Walk Talk remain a key stop on trail 30 Overseas Walk: El Camino - The 6 My Favourite Walk: Te Henui Walkway - New Plymouth Way of St James 34 New Zealand Walk: Wednesday 10 My Favourite Walk: The Putangirua Pinnacles - the badlands Wilderness Wanderers knock of the Wairarapa off the Carrington Loop 36 New Zealand Walks: 10 amaging 13 Overseas Walks: New South Wales - popular with walkers heritage walks in Auckland 38 New Zealand Walk:Need2know: 14 New Zealand Walks: Walk to Cape Brett - a spectacular Online fitness programme for must do walk! seniors 16 Walking New Zealand Monthly 40 Auckland Short Walk: Half Moon Photo Contest Bay and Eastern Beach 41 Need2know: changes to parking 18 Overseas Walks: Walking to waterfalls, waterfalls and more at Tongariro Alpine Crossing waterfalls 42 Overseas Walks and Tours 44 Books: The Longevity List, Hot 23 New Zealand Walks: Ninth year for Walkworth Walks Spring of NZ, High Country 27 High Achiever: Reckons exerHuts and Homesteads cise saved her life.

46 Coming Events: New Zealand 28 New Zealand Walks: Waiheke 50 Coming Events: Overseas Walking Festival offers 50 56 New Zealand Country Breaks guided walks 59 Waiheke Island Walking Festival 60 Walking Stars - Night Time 30 My Favourite Walk: Walk to Cathedralk Cove, Coromandel Marathon 32 Shared Pathway: The Ohakune 42 Overseas Walks and Tours Old Coach Road 44 Books: The Longevity List, Hot Spring of NZ, High Country 36 New Zealand Walk: Opening up a rail trail a community Huts and Homesteads initiative 59 Waiheke Island Walking Fes 40 Event: Auckland club to celNOVEMBER 238 2017 ebrate 40 years since inception 4 Walk Talk 6 My Favourite Walk: 41 New Zealand Walk: Hihitahi Tama Lakes Walk with views Forest Sanctuary and Zeikes of three volcanic peaks Hut walk 11 Need to Know: What walks 44 Event: Magnificent footprints should be our next two Great on a stunning collection of Walks? tracks 12 New Zealand Walk: Waikowhai 60 Walking Stars Night time Coastal Walk Marathon 14 New Zealand Walk: Rata Escape AUGUST 235 2017 walks with great diversity 4 Walk Talk 16 Walking New Zealand Monthly 6 My Favourite Walk: McLarens Photo Contest Falls Park - colourful in autumn 18 New Zealand Walks: Auckland 10 The Bay of Island’s Walking best parks for man’s best friend Weekend - Walking the islands 18 New Zealand Walk: Styx Mill many accessible and affordPuharakekenui Conservation able walks Reserve 12 My Favourite Walk: Martha 20 New Zealand Walk: Walking the

Mine Pit Rim Walk 16 Walking New Zealand Monthly Photo Contest 18 New Zealand Walk: Queen Charlotte Track - spectacular coastal walk among lush native bush 26 New Zealand Walk: What makes a Great Walk?

28 New Zealand Walk: Kitchener Park - a much prized bush reserve 30 Australian Walks: Flinders Island - rugged mountain ranges full of wildlife and flora 36 High Achiever: Green Prescription - Nik’s amazing progress 37 Australian Walks: 4 beautiful Sunshine Coast hikes and walks 38 New Zealand Walk: Opunake Walkway 41 Event: Addington Cycleway opened 44 Need2Know: Volunteering their way around the country - a holiday with a purpose 44 Christchurch wins top town to cycle 56 New Zealand Country Breaks 60 Walking Stars - Night time Marathon

38 High Achiever: John Owens: “Just do it. . .”

40 Event: Great Forest events reach a milestone 46 Coming Events: New Zealand 56 New Zealand Country Breaks 60 Taupo Events

MAY 232 2017

4 Walk Talk 6 New Zealand Walk: Walking into old goldmining days 10 New Zealand Walk: Hatea Loop Walkway has much to do and see 15 A Philosophy of Walking 16 Walking New Zealand Monthly Photo Contest 18 New Zealand Walk: Waitangi Celestial Com pass greets the dawn 20 New Zealand Walks: 10 beautiful day walks in Queenstown 23 Overseas Walks: Bhutan’s trekking routes uncrowded and welcoming 26 New Zealand Walk: Walking to the peak of Mt Pirongia 30 Overseas Walks: Forest walks on the tiny island of Madeira 36 New Zealand Walk: Muriwai Gannet Walk JULY 234 2017 38 New Zealand Walk: Mt Tauhara 4 Walk Talk - a challenging walk to the top 6 Great Walks: DOC plans two new Great Day Walks and 20 new 44 Need 2 Know: 30 years of DOC 56 New Zealand Country Breaks Short Walks 7 Te Araroa Trail: Record numbers 60 Wellington Marathon take to New Zealand’s national APRIL 231 2017 walking trail 4 Walk Talk 8 Auckland Short Walk: Western 6 New Zealand Walks: Tainui Springs and Melola Reef - once Heritage Walk an historic lava flow 8 New Zealand Cycle Tour: A 10 New Zealand Walk: The Greywinter ride on the West Coast town Trail an idyllic 5km walk Wilderness Trail 14 New Zealand Walk: Rangiwhaia 12 New Zealand Walk: Napier’s Hut Track provides stunning Bluff Hill Walk views 14 Auckland Short Walk: Hender14 New Zealand Walk: Wednesday son Creek group takes to the Rangiwhaia 16 Walking New Zealand Monthly Tracks Photo Contest 16 Walking New Zealand Monthly 18 New Zealand Walk: Mangati Photo Contest Walkway 18 New Zealand Walk: New trail to 22 Minister visits ambitious Kerikopen along banks of Avon River eri walkway project 19 Australian Walks: Spendid walks 23 Explore a spectacular trail on in Sydney foot: The Taieri Gorge Rail Walk 20 Australian Walks: Mt Coolum - 24 New Zealand Walk: The Great an ancient volcanic dome Lake Walk/Cycleway, Taupo 23 New Zealand Walk: Te Apiti 26 New Zealand Walk: Tirimoana Manawatu Gorge full length Walkway, Kate Valley walking track reopened 30 Overseas Walk : Walking 24 Event: Great New Zealand Trek, through the canyons of USA Stage 12 - Burkes Pass to Becks 36 New Zealand Walks: ECHO 28 New Zealand Walk: Pauanui Walking Festival seniors challenge the Brynder- 38 New Zealand Walk: New track wyn Ranges links Wairarapa with the 30 Overseas Walks: Three days in a Manawatu crowded paradise 44 Manawatu Striders events 36 New Zealand Walk : Walk 56 New Zealand Country Breaks through Wellington’s history 60 Relays For Life 38 New Zealand Walk: What is the MARCH 230 2017 Commonwealth Walkway?

40 High Achiever: An inspiring 4 Walk Talk 6 New Zealand Walks: Te Araroa walker Trail - The Top 6 Day 40 High Achiever: Green PrescripWalks tion helps Ricky lose more 8 Overseas Walks: Corsica an than 40kg amazing place for walking 44 Event: Striders events attract 16 Walking New Zealand Monthly many walkers Photo Contest 60 Green Prescription 18 New Zealand Walks: A trip JUNE 233 2017 down memory land 1988 The 4 Walk Talk Milford Track 6 New Zealand Walk: Lake Okareka 22 High Achiever: Mother and wetland and board walk daughter motivation 8 New Zealand Walk: Fairy Falls 23 News: Developments at WaitOld Coach Road Tracks Circuit angi Regional Park - Hawkes 12 New Zealand Walk: Blowhard Bay Bush, Hawkes Bay 26 New Zealand Walks: Flora Hut 15 News: Trust to take over popular Walk and Lodestone Track, Waiheke Walking Festival Kahurangi National Park 16 Walking New Zealand Monthly 29 Overseas Walk: A walk up TunPhoto Contest nel Mountain 18 New Zealand Walk: Mt Alford 34 New Zealand Walks: ECHO Challenge Walking Festival has 20 New Zealand Walks: Eastern walks for all fitness levels Taranaki Experience 37 New Zealand Walk: Whangarei 23 News: Ruru watching over Falls - a walk not to be missed Kohupatiki 40 New Zealand Walk: Mangawhai 24 Overseas Walks: Walking in Walking Weekend Japan 45 New Zealand Walk: Iconic Roar27 Books: Best walks of the Great ing Meg Pack Track re-opened Ocean Road to walkers 27 New Zealand Walk: Hawkes Bay 46 Coming Events: New Zealand limestone loop track 48 Coming Events: Overseas 28 New Zealand walk: New swing 51 Index of 14 previous issues bridge should increase the 52 Directory of Walking Groups number of walkers in area 56 New Zealand Country Breaks 30 Overseas Walks: Walking in 60 ECHO Walking Festival Croatia’s National Parks

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13 Jennian Homes Mother’s Day Fun Run, throughout New Zealand 13 Petone Club Pencarrow Lighthouse Fun Run, Eastbourne, Wellington 20 Hawkes Bay Trail Run Series, Hawkes Bay 22 O’Hagan’s 5K Series, Auckland 23 The Rat Race, Milford, Auckland 26 Whitianga Half Marathon, Whitianga 27 36th Mawatu Striders Annual Half Marathon & 3rd Annual Marathon, 10km & 5km, Palmerston North 29 O’Hagan’s 5K Series, Auckland 30 The Rat Race, Milford, Auckland

JUNE 2018

2-3 Bay of Islands Running Festival & Paihia Half Marathon, Waitangi, Bay of Islands 3 ASB Christchurch Marathon, Christchurch 3 Auroa Handicap Half Marathon, Silverstream, Upper Hutt 3 Bay of Islands Running Festival & Half Marathon, Paihia, BOI Paihia 3 Mt Runners Half Marathon, Mt Maunganui 6 The Rat Race, Milford, Auckland

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13 The Rat Race, Milford, Auckland 17 Hawkes Bay Trail Run Series, Hawkes Bay 17 Malvern Road Runners Tuesday Night Run and Walk, Darfield, Canterbury 20 The Rat Race, Milford, Auckland 24 Monaco Mid-Winter Marathon, Monaco, Nelson 27 The Rat Race, Milford, Auckland

JULY 2018

1 Gazley Volkswagen Wellington Marathon, Half Marathon, 10km & Kids Magic Mile, Wellington 1 Women’s Half Marathon, Queens Wharf, Auckland 1 Hoka ONE ONE Tauhara Trail Run, Mt Tauhara, Taupo 4 The Rat Race, Milford, Auckland 11 The Rat Race, Milford, Auckland 15 Hawkes Bay Trail Run Series, Hawkes Bay 18 The Rat Race, Milford, Auckland 21 Captain Cook’s Landing Trail Run, Ships Cove, Marlborough Sounds 25 The Rat Race, Milford, Auckland 29 Kapiti Harriers Winter Off-Road Series, Waikanae, Kapiti Coast

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AUGUST 2018

1 The Rat Race, Milford, Auckland 4 Hoka One One Taupo Half Marathon, Marathon, 10km & 5km, Taupo 5 South Island Half Marathon, Lake Hood Ashburton 8 The Rat Race, Milford, Auckland 12 Hawkes Bay Trail Run Series, Hawkes Bay 15 The Rat Race, Milford, Auckland 19 Petone Club 5 Bridges Marathon and Fun Runs, Petone, Lower Hutt 22 The Rat Race, Milford, Auckland 24-25 The Great Naseby Water Race Ultramarathon, Nasby, Otago 25 Mt Manganui Half Marathon, Mt Maunganui 25 The North Range Trio, Balance, Manawatu 26 New Caledonia Marathon ,Noumea, New Caledonia 29 The Rat Race, Milford, Auckland

SEPTEMBER 2018

1 Hoka One One Kinloch Off Road Challenge, Marathon, Half Marathon, 10km & 5km, Kinloch, Taupo 1 The Dun Run, Maitai Dam, Nelson 2 North Shore Marathon, Takapuna, Auckland 5 The Rat Race, Milford, Auckland 8 Kaikoura Whale Run, Kaikoura Suburban School, Kaikoura 9 Dunedin Marathon, Dunedin 12 The Rat Race, Milford, Auckland 16 Cambridge Half Marathon, Cambridge 19 The Rat Race, Milford, Auckland

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NOVEMBER 2018

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MARCH 2019

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15 Three Marathon in 3 Days: Cairns Marathon, Cairns, Qld, Australia 15 Three Marathon in 3 Days: Lake Morris Race, Qld, Australia 17-20 IML Internationa Four Day Walk, Nijmegen, Netherlands 22 Outback to the Stack, Half Marathon, 10km & 5km, Australia 29 Run Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic, Australia 29 Blacktown Marathon, Half Marathon, 10km 5km & 2km, Blacktown, NSW, Australia

9-10 IML Two Day Walk, Bern, Switzerland 16 The Rydweld Porcupine Gorge Challenge, Porcupine Gorge, Qld, Australia 17 2018 Winter Solice Fun Run, 5km, 9km & 15km, Portland, Vic, Australia 23 The Big 5 Marathon, South Africa 23-24 IML International Two Day Walk,Viorg, Denmark 30 - 1 July Gold Coast Marathon, Gold Coast, Qld, Australia

SEPTEMBER 2018

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NOVEMBER 2018

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JULY 2018

9-10 IML Two Day Walk, Arenzano, Italy 14-16 IML International Three Day Walk, Seefeld, Austria 17-18 IML International Two Day Walk, Beijing, China 17-19 Sunshine Coast Marathon Community Run Festival, Half Marathon, 10km, 5km & 2km, Sunshine Coast, Qld, Australia 29-30 IML Two Day Walk,Brno, Czech Republic

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Directory

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NORTH ISLAND NORTHLAND BAY OF ISLANDS

BAY OF ISLANDS RUNNERS & WALKERS: Saturday (AM), Bert Vanasche 09-404-0147, or Gea Hadderingh 09- 405-7773 DARGAVILLE

DARGAVILLE TRAMPING GROUP: Last Sunday of month (AM), Maxine Stringer 09-439-7815, 09-439-6029,stringer@infogen.net.nz WHANGAREI

KIWI SENIORS WALKING GROUP: Monday (AM), Lee Taylor 09-4303470 CARDIAC CARE WALKING GROUP: Wednesday (AM or PM), Jo or Hugh Knight 09-438-7976 KIWI SENIORS WALKING GROUP: Monday (AM), Kensington Reception, 09-437-4404 GREEN PRESCRIPTION WALKING GROUPS: 0800-228-483 HARRIERS WALKING GROUP: Tuesday (AM), Wednesday (PM), Thursday (AM), Val Babe 09-437-1657 HIKURANGI WALKING GROUP: Tuesday (PM) KAMO 60’s UP: Monday, Thursday (AM), Yvonne 09-435-1101 KENSINGTON WALKING GROUP: Tuesday Thursday (PM), Sport Northland 09-437-4404 TIKIPUNGA WALKING GROUP: Tuesday (AM), Barbara Derrick 09435-0746 WAIPU WALKING GROUP: Wednesday (AM) WHANGAREI TRAMPING CLUB: Sue Guyatt 09-436-1441 GREAT BARRIER ISLAND

BARRIER TRAMPING& BEER LOVERS CLUB: Sunday, John Brock 09-429-0211

AUCKLAND

OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES CLUB: midweek, weekends (BIA), walks, tramps, Val Todd 09-579-8250, www.oacnz.org AUCKLAND NATURAL HISTORY CLUB: Every second Sunday, (AM), (IA),Elane Hayes 09-576 4293, www.aucklandnaturalhistoryclub.org ALPINE SPORTS CLUB: Tramps, walks, cycling, Sunday, Saturday, Marianne Rienhard 09-575-2429 ALPINE SPORTS CLUB: Sunday, Saturday & weekdays, tramps, walks , Beryl Borthwick 09-444-9667 or Sue Fitzpatrick 09-576-1069 THUMBS UP ADVENTURE GROUP (TUAC): Alan Grigg 027-493-6850, Libby 021-137-1488, Leonie 021-222-8982, www.tuac.co.nz WOMENS OUTDOOR PURSUITS INC: Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday, Donna Sheppard, info@wops.co.nz, 09-535-8239, www.wops.co.nz AUCKLAND CENTRAL

AUCKLAND YMCA MARATHON CLUB, (Walkers Section), Sunday (AM), Helen Meyer 09-815-1444 AUCKLAND CATHOLIC TRAMPING CLUB: Sarah Hart 09-625-7891, actc. trampingclub@gmail.com AUCKLAND WALKERS & JOGGERS CLUB: Tuesday, Thursday (PM), Sunday (AM), (BIA), Bev Horton 09-625-5329 AUCKLAND PRESBYTERIAN HARRIER & WALKING CLUB: Michael Vickers, 09-579-5355 AUCKLAND BAPTIST TRAMPING CLUB: Sunday Monthly (PM), (BIA), John McCarthy 09-630-4073 RACEWALKING AUCKLAND: Sunday (AM), Grant 09-299-5634, www. sportsground.co.nz/racewalkingauckland/ AUCKLAND TRAMPING CLUB: Tony Walton 09-630-2591 www. aucktramping.org.nz AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY TRAMPING CLUB: Michelle Lee 09-358-1296 BLOCKHOUSE BAY WALKING CLUB: Ces Gussey 09-837-5441 ELLERSLIE Y’S WALKING CLUB: Olive Andrews 09-634-4148 EAST AND BAYS RUNNERS & WALKERS: Glendowie, Saturday, Sally 09-522-5321 EPSOM Y’s COMMUNITY CENTRE WALKERS: Tuesday/Thursday (AM), Don Hay 09-636-9730 LYNFIELD Y’S WALKING CLUB: Mt Roskill, Sunday (AM), Marlene 09827-2737, Danny 09-627-9993 MT ALBERT Y’s WALKING GROUP: Tuesday Friday, (AM), 09-846-0788 MT ROSKILL COMMUNITY HOUSE: Theresa McDonald, 09-624-3281 OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES CLUB AUCKLAND: Marshall Piecy 09-445-3808, www.oacnz.org ST HELIERS HIKERS: First/Third Wednesdays (all day), Glenn 09528-9726 STEP OUT WALKING GROUP: Thursday (AM), 09-379-2095 x 9704 WOMENS OUTDOOR PURSUITS INC: Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday, Donna Sheppard, info@wops.co.nz, 09-535-8239, www.wops.co.nz WEST AUCKLAND

LEGEND

Fitness levels: “B” beginner, ”I” intermediate, “A” advanced. (AM) denotes morning walk, (PM) denotes an afternoon or evening walk.

Group co-ordinators are asked to please advise us of any updates by fax 06-358-6864 or email walkingnz@xtra.co.nz.

BLUE TOP WALKERS: Henderson, Tuesday, Thursday (AM), Terry Wilson 09-814-9523 or 021-266-1071, terryandsheena@gmail.com, www. bluetopwalkers.weebly.com FIA OLA WOMEN’S DEVELOPMEMT WALK GROUP: Monday to Saturday, Anne, 09-813-0021 FIT4LIFE: Glenfield, Monday (PM), Friday (AM), Sarah 021 534 649 FOOTSTEPS: Saturday (AM), John 09-410-2995 GLEN EDEN WALKERS: Oratia Bowling Club, Tuesday (AM), Ethel Denscombe 09-818-3561 GLEN EDEN ATHLETIC CLUB WALKERS: Glen Eden, Wednesday (PM) and Saturday (AM), Neil Turner 09-817-6230 GREEN BAY MUMS BUSH WALKERS: Every second Monday, Anne 09-827-7810 or 09-817-5867 HENDERSON SENIORS WALKING GROUP: Henderson, Friday (AM), Alene Couchman 09-818-2580 KELSTON MORNING WALKERS: Kelston C.C. Tues (AM), Joy Martin 09-838-6553 KELSTON TWILIGHT WALKERS: Kelston, Tuesday (PM), Joy Martin 09-818-6084 KUMEU WALK GROUP: Kumeu, Friday (AM), Mary Davies 09-412-2262 LYNNMALL SHOPPING CENTRE KIWIFIT CLUB: Monday, Wednesday (AM), (BIA), 09-826-2333 LYNFIELD WALKING CLUB: Mt Roskill, Sunday (AM), Marlene 09-8272737, Danny 09-627-993 LYNNDALE AMATEUR ATHLETIC & HARRIER CLUB: Wednesday and Sunday (AM), Mic Baker 09-626-3232 MASSEY ATHLETIC CLUB: Sunday (AM), Shena McGregor 09-412-8076 MASSEY JOGGERS & WALKERS: Sunday (AM), Kerry Watt 09-838-6665 or 021-517-049 NEW LYNN ACTIVE 35+ WALKING GROUP: New Lynn, Wednesday, Lorraine, 09-827-8663 RANUI MORNING WALK GROUP: Monday to Friday (AM), Judith 09-832-5692 RANUI TWILIGHT WALK GROUP: Monday, Wednesday, Glenys 09832-4069 RIVERHEAD WALK GROUP: Wednesday (AM), Dane Brown 09-4129952 SUMMERLAND WALKERS: Henderson, Tuesday, Thursday (AM), Lyn Mountier 09-838-1599 TE ATAU PENINSULA WALKERS: Monday, Friday (AM), Wednesday (PM), Mary Jones 09-834-6989 TE ATATU SOUTH ACTIVE 35+ WALKING GROUP: Te Atatu South, Wednesday, Edna, 09-834-1401 THE HAPPY WANDERERS WALKING GROUP: Wednesday (AM), Brian Ashmore 09-817-4562 or 027-471-3038 TITIRANGI WALKERS: Sundays (AM), John Harris 09-627-0099, jeanah@ihug.co.nz Y’s WALKING HENDERSON: Tuesdays, Thursday, Sarah, 09-836-8031 Y’s Walkers, Mt Roskill, Sunday (AM), Dan Gofin 09-627-9993 WAIATARUA WALKERS:Oratia, Saturday (AM), 09-814-9945 WANDERWOMEN ADVENTURES: 09-360-7330 WALKING WAITAKERE WEDNESDAY WALKS: Wednesday, (AM), May to October, Kay Lindley 09-837-8820 WOMENS OUTDOOR PURSUITS INC: Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday, Donna Sheppard, info@wops.co.nz, 09-535-8239, www.wops.co.nz WEST AUCKLAND TRAMPING CLUB: Sunday (AM), www.westaucklandtrampingclub.co.nz NORTH SHORE

10,000 STEPS HARBOUR CLUB: Harbour Sport 09-415-4610 60’s UP TORBAY/BROWNS BAY: Wed (AM), Jan Elliott 09-473-3811, Josette Westcott 09-479-8159 ABERDEEN ROAD WALKERS: Campbells Bay, Saturday (PM), Patsy Hulse 09-410-9353 BUSH WALK & TALK: Margi Keys, 09-443-6919 or 0274-481-581 BIRKENHEAD PROBUS CLUB: Albany, Tuesday (AM), Tracy Watson 09-414-5351 BROWNS BAY/TORBAY 60’s UP MOVEMENT: Wednesday (AM), Roy Urlic 09-473-8777 CALLIOPE ATHLETICS WALKERS & HARRIERS: Northcote, Wednesday (PM), Gaye Green 09-444-7946 DEVONPORT WALKERS: Devonport, Tuesday, Thursday Sunday (AM), Pat & Jim McKay 09-445-2743 DEVONPORT FRIDAY WALKING GROUP: Devonport, Friday (AM), Naomi Gardyne 09-445-4303 EAST COAST BAYS WALKERS: Browns Bay, Tuesday, Friday (AM), Pam Mattson 09-302-4882 or 021-268-4154, pam_4882@yahoo.co.nz GREENHITHE WALKING GROUP: Greenhithe, Tuesday (AM), Marjorie Andrew 09-413-9065 HIGHBURY COMMUNITY HOUSE: Highbury, Thursday, Friday (AM), Judy Mayn 09-480-5279 MAIRANGI WALKING NETWORK: Mairangi Bay, Everyday (AM), Paula Cole 09-444-6435 MEADOWOOD WALKING & TALKERS: Albany, Tuesday (AM), Carol Buckner 09-479-7804 MILFORD MALL WALKERS: Greenhithe, Tuesday, Thursday, (AM), Carol Mosedale 09-443-2054 MILFORD MENS PROBUS: Ian Hall 09-479-4259 NORTH SHORE DIABETES SUPPORT GROUP: Every second Sunday

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(AM), Dave or Panny 09-476-7447 NORTH SHORE TRAMPING CLUB: Falk Werner mail@nstc.org.nz, www.nstc.org.nz NORTHCOTE WALKING GROUP: Northcote, alternative Tuesdays, Brucilla Wright 09-480-0150, brucilla.wright@xtra.co.nz TORBAY WALKERS: Torbay, Wednesday (AM), Lorna Stewart, 09473-8731 WALKERS & TALKERS: Campbells Bay, Wednesday (AM), Brenda Gray 09-410-4019, Dorothy Ensor 09-478-6702 WOMENS OUTDOOR PURSUITS INC: Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday, Donna Sheppard, info@wops.co.nz, 09-535-8239, www.wops.co.nz

NORDIC WALKING GROUPS

Acacia Cove Nordic Walking Group: Sunday (AM) Jenny Wills 09267-5416 Bridge the Gap Nordic Walkers: Sunday (AM ), Sheila Milbourn/ Margaretha Sehnert 027-456-2233/021-141-3801 Cornwall Park Nordic Walking Group: Saturday (AM), June Stevenson 09-361-6636 or 0274-383-923 Cornwall Park Nordic Gold (Senior Group) Monday (AM), June Stevenson 09-361-6636 or 0274-383-923 North Shore Nordic Walkers Sunday (AM), Marie McLisky 09-475-5247 or Judy Hawkins (after 6pm) 027-572-2474 Pakuranga Nordic Walkers: Thursday (AM) Deidre Nielsen 09-271-3324 YMCA Nordic Walkers Thursday (AM) June Stevenson 09-361-6636 or 0274-383-923 RODNEY

ABERDEEN ROAD WALKERS: Campbells Bay, Saturdays (PM), 09482-1172 10,000 STEPS HARBOUR CLUB: Harbour Sport 09-415-4610 ARIKI WALKERS: Snells Beach, Mondays (AM), Ivan Melville 09425-4999 HIBISCUS COAST TRAMPING CLUB: Evert second Sunday, Lynley Dill, 0274-258-281, lynley.dill@gmail.com HEALTH IN ACTION: (BIA), Susie George 09-426-1269 HELENSVILLE WALKERS: Helensville, Tuesday (AM), Janet Heron 09-420-8773 HIBISCUS COAST Y’S WALKERS: Sunday (AM), Wednesday (AM,PM), Kevin Tiller, 09-426-6461 LEISURE WALKERS: Whangaparaoa, Thursday (AM), Pam Jordan 021136-6129, pajordan0452@gmail.com MONDAY WALKERS: Monday (AM), Snells Beach, 09-Lyne Melville 09-425-4999 SCOTTS LANDING WALKING GROUP: RD2, Warkworth, Sunday (AM), Angela McIntyre 09-425-5854 SNELLS BEACH WALKING GROUP: Warkworth, Wednesay (AM), Jenny Burton 09-425-5583 WELLSFORD ROAD RUNNERS & JOGGERS: Second Sunday (AM), Thursday (AM), Robert Scott 09-425-8089 or Heather Rankin 09-431-4692 WOMENS OUTDOOR PURSUITS INC: Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday, Anne 09-480-5424, www.wops.co.nz WAIHEKE ISLAND

WAIHEKE ISLAND WALKING GROUP: Saturday (PM), Shaona Maddle, 09-372-6645 COUNTIES/MANUKAU

HOWICK TRAMPING CLUB: Sunday (AM), (BIA), Gayle Sephton 027-635-4063 PUKEKOHE JOGGERS & WALKING GROUP: Monday, Friday, Sunday (AM), 09-238-9820 WAIUKU WALKING GROUP: Information Centre, Monday, Wednesday, Friday (AM), ONEWHERO KIWISENIORS WALKING GROUP: Merlene, Walker, 09-232-8844 PAKURANGA ATHLETIC CLUB: Tuesday, Thursday 9am (BIA), Linda Mitchell, 09-532-8442 PAKURANGA KIWISENIORS WALKING GROUP: Monday, Wednesday (AM), 09-576-9739 MANUKAU TRAMPING CLUB: Judith Walker, 09-296-6977 MANGERE BRIDGE WALKING GROUP: Tuesday, Thursday (AM). Meet at Village Square MANUREWA Y’S WALKERS: Recreation Centre, MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY (AM), 09-267-4646 MANUREWA Y’S WALKING GROUP: Clendon Recreation Centre, Tuesday, Thursday (AM), 09-266-1100 MANUREWA COSMOPOLITAN CLUB WALKERS: Sunday (AM) HOWICK PICTON CENTRE WALKERS: Howick Picton Centre, Monday, Thursday (AM), 09-534-2712 HOWICK Y’S WALKERS: Tuesday, Thursday (AM), 09-534-5153 PUKEKOHE TRAMPING CLUB: Mark Leys 09-294-8927, mleys@ orcon.net.nz TOI TOI TREKKERS TRAMPING CLUB: Noel Newsome 09-278-4962

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FRANKTON ATHLETIC & HARRIER CLUB: Wednesday, Saturday, (PM), (BIA), Heather Purdie-Raill, 07-847-5639 NAWTON WALKING GROUP: Rene Smyth, 07846-3245 CENTRAL LAKE WALKING GROUP: Monday, WEdnesday Friday (AM), Nella Barron 07-846-3103 CHARTWELL WALKING GROUP: Monday (AM), Carrie Haak 07-855www.walkingnewzealand.co.nz

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4281 DINSDALE WALKING GROUP: Monday (AM), Val Russell 07-847-6539 ENDERLEY WALKING GROUP: Tuesday (AM), Leonie Smith 07-855-2224 HAMILTON TRAMPING CLUB: Alan Bigham 07-856-4646 MEMORIAL PARK WALKING GROUP: Thursday (AM), Maureen Doms 07-855-2497 NAWTON WALKING GROUP: Monday Tuesday (AM), Roslynn Billman 07-847-4873 SILVERDALE WALKING GROUP: Sister Anne Marie Jones 07-856-8980 FLAGSTAFF WALKING GROUP: Monday Wednesday Friday (AM), Gillian Bartram 07-854-0069 WESTFIELD MALL WALKING GROUP: Tuesday (AM) Westfield Mall Chartwell HAMILTON MARATHON CLINIC:Tuesday (PM), Sunday (AM), Sharon 07-854-9214 TOD SQUAD: Friday (AM), Julie 07-829-4579 Y’s WALKERS: Monday, Wednesday, Friday (AM) MONDAY BUSHTRAMPERS: Monday, Marian 07-828-9029 BREAKAWAYS BUSH WALKING & TRAMPING CLUB: Diana Ammann 07-823-6147 WAIKATO TRAMPING CLUB: www.wtc.org.nz or Stu Kneebone 07-827-3097 WANDERERS TRAMPING CLUB: Colin 07-855-1335 CAMBRIDGE

CAMBRIDGE WALKING GROUP: Monday, Wednesday (AM), Sharon Woodings, 07-827-6033 LEAMINGTON WALKING GROUP: Wednesday (AM), Sharon Woodings, 07-827-6033 KAIHERE/PATETONGA

KAIHERE/PATETONGA WALKING GROUP: Wednesday (PM), Julie Stephenson 07-867-7011 MATAMATA

MATAMATA WALKERS: Tuesday, Friday (AM), Corry Crabb 07-888-8412 MATAMATA TRAMPING & WALKING GROUP: Shirley Hickson 07-8821355, brian.shirl@clear.net.nz MORRINSVILLE

MORRINSVILLE WALKERS: Wednesday (AM), Ruth Stanley 07880-9088 OTOROHANGA

OTOROHANGA WALKING GROUP: Friday (AM) PAEROA

PAEROA WALKING GROUP: Monday, Wednesday (AM), Elaine Lally 07-862-8409 PAEROA LUNCH WALKERS: Monday Wednesday Friday, Julie Stephenson 07-867-7011 PUTARURU

PUTARURU WALKING GROUP:(BIA) Hazel Murphy, 07-883-7927 PIOPIO

SILVERADOS EXERCISE GROUP: Wednesday (PM), June O’Donoghue, 07-877-8492 RAGLAN

RAGLAN RAMBLERS: Wednesday (AM), John Lawson, johnragla@ gmail.com TAIRUA

TAIRUA WALKING GROUP: Tuesday, Thursday, Mike Lord, 07-868-6025 THAMES

THAMES WALKING GROUP: Monday, Friday (AM), Mike Lord, 07868-6025 TAUPO

TAUPO HARRIER CLUB WALKING SECTION: Saturday (PM), Wednesday (AM), Bernie Rolls 07-378-9229 TAUPO TRAMPING CLUB: Wednesday (AM), Thursday (AM), Weekends (AM or PM), Isabel Hutcheon 07-376-9319 MONDAY WALKERS: Monday (AM), (BIA), 027-592-2994 WEDNESDAY WALKERS: Wednesday (PM), (I), 06-378-9229 TE AROHA

TE AROHA WALKERS: Thursday (AM), Ruth Stanley 07-880-9088 TE AROHA TRAMPING CLUB: Every second Sunday, Judy Forsman 07-884-8841 TE AROHA TREKKERS: Wednesday (AM), Frances Harrison 07-862-8184 TE AWAMUTU

TE AWAMUTU TUESDAY TRAMPERS: Tuesday, Lesley 07-870-1973 or Kathy 07-870-2006 TE AWAMUTU WALKING GROUP: Monday, Wednesday, Friday (AM), Jan Jefferies 07-889-7032 TE AWAMUTU MARATHON CLINIC: Sunday (AM), (BIA), Hillary Thomas 07-871-5022 TE KUITI

TWILIGHT WALKING GROUP: Monday, (PM), (BIA), Dede Downs, 07-878-7867 www.walkingnewzealand.co.nz

TOKOROA

WHITIANGA

TOKOROA ALPINE CLUB:Midweek, Christine 07-886-7294

WHITIANGA WALKING GROUP: Monday, Thursday (AM), Mike lord, 07-868-6025

BAY OF PLENTY

WHANGAMATA

COROMANDEL

COROMANDEL TOWN WALKERS: Tuesday, Thursday (AM) 07-8667101or 07-866-8560 KATIKATI

KATIKATI TRAMPING CLUB: fortnightly weekends (AM), Maddy Pyle 07-552-0215 KAWERAU

KAWERAU WALKERS: Kawerau, Thursday (AM), (B), Sport Bay of Plenty, 07-308-8304 HARRIERS WALKERS: Kawerau Thursday (PM), (A), Sport Bay of Plenty, 07-308-8304 ROTORUA

WHANGAMATA RAMBLERS: Ron Le Noel, 07-865-9475 WALK WHANGAMATA: Everyday (AM), from Surf club WHANGAMATA WALKERS: Tuesday (AM), 07-865-8182 WHAGAMATA TRAMPING CLUB: 07-865-9110

EAST COAST GISBORNE

GISBORNE CANOE & TRAMPING CLUB: Gillian Ward 06-867-4591 GISBORNE RUNNERS & WALKERS: Norma Miller 06-868-7477 WAIROA

WAIROA WALKING GROUP: Sara Rangi, or Denice Gasson 06-838-3071

CROSS COUNTRY WALKERS: Tuesday, Thursday, (AM), (A), 07 348-2538 LAKE CITY ATHLETIC CLUB WALKERS GROUP: Tueday, Thursday (PM), Sunday (AM), Rob Colledge 07-348-7768, info@lakecity.co.nz, www. lakecity.co.nz GREEN PRESCRIPTION WALKING GROUP: TMonday and Thursday (AM), (B), Melissa Gordon 07-348-4125 HEART SUPPORT WALK GROUP: Tueday (AM), Wally Walford 07347-6173 MOKOIA COMMUNITY CENTRE WALKERS: Wednesday (AM), (B), Melissa Gordon 07 348 4125 SPRINGFIELD STROLLERS: Wednesday (AM), (BIA), Glenys Searancke 07-348-4243 ROTORUA TRAMPING & SKI CLUB: Sundays (AM), Trevor Cochrane 07-345-6362 ROTORUA SOCIAL NORDIC WALKING GROUP: Fridays (AM), Audrey 07-348-1471 ST BARNABAS WALKING GROUP: Friday (AM), (BIA), Joy Gordon 07-357-5744 THE THURSDAY STROLLERS: Thursday (AM), (B), Myrtle Raxworthy 07-346-3772 U3A WALKING GROUP: 2nd and 4th Fridays (AM), Ann Sullivan 07348-1991 annsullivan822@gmail.com WALKING WITH JOY: Tuesday (AM), (BI), Joy Gordon 07-357-5744

HAWKES BAY

AGE CONCERN: Tauranga, Wednesday (AM), 07-578-2631 CITY ON ITS FEET: (COIF) (BIA) For days and time phone Sport Bay of Plenty 07-578-0016 STEPPING OUT JOGGING CLUB: Monday, Wednesday, (AM), (IA), 07-544-0316 FOREST & BIRD SOCIETY: Secretary, Tauranga. branch @forestandbird. org.nz, Tauranga HEALTHY HEART CLUB: Monday, Wednesday, Friday (AM), (B), YMCA, 07-578-5891 KAIMAI RAMBLERS TRAMPING GROUP: Wednesday, Roger 07544-1622 Y’s WALKERS: Monday, Wednesday, Friday (AM), YMCA, 07-578-5891 MOUNT JOGGERS & WALKERS: Tuesday, Friday, Sunday, info@mtjoggersandwalkers.co.nz , www.mtjoggersandwalkers.co.nz ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION: MONDAY (AM) 07-576-2469 NORDIC WALKING AT THE MOUNT: Monday, Wednesday, Saturday, Steffi 07-574-7527 NORDIC WALKING IN TAURANGA: Monday, Wednesday, Mary 07577-0711 MT MAUNGANUI RSA WALKING CLUB: Tuesday, Thursday, Sundays (AM), (BIA), Kieran Jensen 07-572-0626 50 FORWARD WALKING GROUPS: Sport Bay of Plenty 07-578-0016 TAURANGA MID-WEEK TRAMPING GROUP: Pat 07-544-0670 TAURANGA ROAD RUNNERS: Sunday (AM), Ross 07-576-4852 TAURANGA RAMBLERS: Malcolm 07-544-2369 or Rod Taylor 07576-4207 TAURANGA TRAMPERS NETWORK: Natalie Bird 07-576-0016 TAURANGA TRAMPING CLUB: Christine Rawnsley 07-578-9984 PAK N BOOTS: Eveie 027-434-7877 and Julie Fox , 021-215-8516

TARADALE/GREEN MEADOWS WALKING GROUP: Monday (AM), (IA), Diane Turner 06-844-4114 TARADALE/SPORT HAWKES BAY WALKING GROUP: Tuesday (AM), (BI), Nga Gifford-Kara 06-845-9333

TE PUKE WALKERS: Tuesday (AM), 07-573-8306

WAITARA

TAURANGA/MT MAUNGANUI

TE PUKE WAIHI

WAIHI STRIDERS: Wednesday (AM), Julie Stephenson 07-867-7011 WAIHI STROLLERS: Friday (AM), Julie Stephenson 07-867-7011 WAIHI MONDAY TRAMPING: Monday (AM), Marie 07-863-4633 or Barry 07-863-4597 WHAKATANE

SUNSHINE WALKING GROUP: Whakatane, Tuesday (AM), (I), Graham Thomas, 07-307-9800 HARRIERS WALKERS WHAKATANE: Saturday, (PM), (I), Noel Jones, 07-308-7101 NGA-TAPUWAE O-TANEATUA TRAMPING CLUB: Whakatane, Ohope, Opitiki, Kawerau; John Keene, john.keene@clear.net.nz

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HASTINGS

FLAXMERE WALKING GROUP: Tuesday, Thursday (AM), (BI), Maisy 06-879-7077 HASTINGS WALKING GROUP: Monday (AM), (I), Eddy 06-876-3371 HASTINGS WALKING GROUP: Tuesday (PM), (BI), Templey 06-873-0971 HAVELOCK NORTH WALKERS: Wednesday (AM), (BI), Jeanette 06877-2114 HAVELOCK NORTH WALKING GROUP: Thursday (AM), Lyn Bennett 06-877-7886 KIWI SENIORS: Eana Young 06-845-9333 x 708 RUN WALK HAWKES BAY: Wed (PM), Sunday (AM), Doug Clark 06878-2785, www.runwalkhb.org.nz NAPIER

AHURIRI WALKING GROUP: Friday (AM), (I), Diane Turner 06-844-4114 NAPIER WALKING GROUP: Thursday (AM), (I), Lyn 06-835-7704 NAPIER SOUTH WALKING GROUP: Friday (AM), (B), Maria Rogers 06-843-1225 RUN WALK HAWKES BAY: Wed (PM), Sunday (AM), Mike Sheely 06843-7804, www.runwalkhb.org.nz Ys WALKERS: Tuesday, Thursday, Napier, Kay Hacche 06-844-4891 or Dot Single 06-844-6885 TARADALE/GREEN MEADOWS

WAIPUKURAU

WAIPUKURAU WALKING GROUP: Thursday (AM), Eleanor Green 06-857-8612

TARANAKI

INDEPENDENT WALKERS TARANAKI: Saturday (PM). North: Ray/Mary 06-756-7798. Central: Wallace/Nancye 06-762-2861. South: Alan/ Jean 06-278-6846 NEW PLYMOUTH

CARRINGTON WALKING GROUP: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Catherine McKee 06-753-3254 TIME FOR ME WALKS FOR WOMEN: Friday (AM), (I), Glenice 06758-3974 FRONT RUNNER GROUP: Monday (PM), (BIA), Kelvin & Michelle Giddy FITZROY WALKING GROUP: Monday, Wednesday, Friday (AM), (IA), Marlene 06-758-8749 or Marilyn 06-757-2022 WESTOWN WALKING GROUP FOR WOMEN: Monday, Wednesday, Friday (AM), (IA), Karen 06-751-1361 WEDNESDAY WALKERS: Wednesday (AM), Karen 06-751-1361 WALKERS IN THE PARK: Monday, (AM), (B), Dawn 06-758-6429 or Dorothy Humphries 06-751-0431 SPOTSWOOD WALKING GROUP: Monday, Wednesday, Friday (AM), (BI), Allie Fitzgibbon 06-751-2304 NEW PLYMOUTH JOGGERS & WALKERS CLUB: Sunday (AM), Wednesday (PM), www.npjw.co.nz TARANAKI RACE WALKING CLUB: Trevor Suthon, 06-758-0776 EGMONT ATHLETICS: Karen Green, 06-758-1569 WAITARA WEEKLY HIKOI: Monday (PM), Waitara Netball Courts, Marina or Charles Sport Taranaki 06-759-0930 INGLEWOOD

INGLEWOOD WALKING GROUP: Monday (AM), (I), Maureen 06756-7255 STRATFORD

STRATFORD RUNNERS & WALKERS CLUB: Saturday (PM), (BIA), Jill Gorrie 06-764-5088 STRATFORD WEDNESDAY WALKERS: Wednesday (AM), (BI), Ivan Coates 06-765-7212 or Wes Robinson 06-765-5242 INGLEWOOD

INGLEWOOD WALKING GROUP: Monday (AM), Maureen 06- 756-7255 HAWERA

Fitness levels: “B” beginner, ”I” intermediate, “A” advanced. (AM) denotes morning walk, (PM) denotes an afternoon or evening walk.

Group co-ordinators are asked to please advise us of any updates by fax 06-358-6864 or email walkingnz@xtra.co.nz.

HAWERA WALKING GROUPO: Friday (AM), Nancy Riddick 06-278-5784 ELTHAM

KIWI SENIORS WALKING GROUP: Monday (AM), (BIA), Maria Erkes

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WANGANUI WANGANUI

BUSHWALK & TALK WHANGANUI: Margi Keys, 06-344-1250 or 027448-1581 margikeys93@mail.com CASTLECLIFF WALK GROUP: Monday (AM), Ethel Fackney 06-344-4375 RONA & GLAD’S WALK GROUP: Tuesday (AM), Rona Wright 06344-5434 WANGANUI HARRIER CLUB: Wednesdays, Saturday (PM), Secretary, P O Box 702, Wanganui, Perry Newburn 06-343-6484 SPORT WANGANUI CLUB GOLD: Tuesday, Thursday, (AM), Karen Buckholt 06-349-2315 WANGANUI MILLENNIUM WALKERS CLUB: Sunday (AM), Darol Pointon 06-345-3137 WAVERLEY

SPORT WANGANUI CLUB GOLD: (AM), (BIA), Betty Morrison 06346-5613 OHAKUNE

SPORT WANGANUI CLUB GOLD: Mondays (AM), Kerry Young 06385-4055 MARTON

ORIENTAL BAY WEDNESDAY WALKERS: Christine Blakely 04-383-6276 MT VICTORIA WALKING GROUP: Euan Harris 04-384-4770 WALK WAINUI: Monday (AM), (BIA), Shirley 04-564-6179 ISLAND BAY WALKING GROUP: Community Resource Centre, Island Bay, 04-383-7464 WALKING FOR LIFE: Lynne Waring, Miramar KARORI WALKING GROUP: Mavis Shaw, Kelburn KARORI ARTS & CRAFT WALKING GROUP: 04-934-8630 KANDALLAH CORNERSTONE WALKERS: Monday (AM) 04-479-5420 MIRAMAR WALKING GROUP: 04-388-1944 NEWLANDS COMMUNITY HOUSE WALKING: Tuesday (AM), 04-4788799 TARARUA TRAMPING CLUB: www.ttc.org.nz WEA MIDWEEK WALKERS: Hanna Harwood WELLINGTON WEDNESDAY WALKERS: 04-388-1988 WELLINGTON CATHOLIC TRAMPING CLUB: 04-934-4729 WELLINGTON HARRIER ATHLETIC CLUB: Saturday (PM) mid March to mid October, (BIA), Veronica Gould WELLINGTON MARATHON CLINIC: Sunday (AM), (BIA), Toni 04478-9201 WELLINGTON MID-WEEK WALKERS: Tues, Thursday (PM), Bart Jones 04-477-3746 or David Lonsdale 04-977-8990 WELLINGTON NORDIC WALKERS: Rod McColl 04-526-6833 WELLINGTON TRAMPING & MOUNTAINEERING CLUB: www.wtmc. org.nz WELLYWALKS: www.meetup.com/WellyWalks WELLINGTON MEET-UP TRAMPING CLUB: www.meetup.com/WellingtonTrampingGroup

SPORT WANGANUI CLUB GOLD Wednesday (AM), Deane James LOWER HUTT 06-327-7607 WALK FOR HEALTH: Wednesday (PM), Saturday (AM), Sunday (AM), MANAWATU (BIA), Jean 04-589-7887 or 027-510-1062, www.walk4health.org.nz PALMERSTON NORTH POSITIVELY SLIM “Health for Life Walkers: Sunday (AM) Wednesday HOKOWHITU KIWI WALKERS: Tuesday, Thursday (AM), (I), Dorne (PM) (BIA), Jim or Barbara Mobbs 04-566-2603 Jarvis 06-357-2444 HUTT VALLEY WALKERS: Saturday (PM), Carol 04-586-7784 KELVIN GROVE WALKERS: Tuesday (PM), (I), Marjory Edmonds, WALKING FOR PLEASURE: 60’s Plus, Melling, Molly Shephers, 0406-354-3342 567-5727 HOT-Whitu CHICKS Saturday, (AM), (BIA), laurenparsons.co.nz/ WOMENS WALKING GROUP: Wainuiomata, every second Wednesday hot-whitu-chicks (PM), 04-564-6019 MANAWATU STRIDERS: Tuesday, Thursday, (PM); Sunday (AM), HUTT VALLEY TRAMPING CLUB: Weekend (AM), Dennis Page 04Hockey Manawatu Pavillion, Manawaroa Street, (BIA), Alister Martin 970-6901 06-353-7175 KAUMATUA TRAMPING CLUB: www.kaumatuatc.org.nz PALMERSTON NORTH JOGGERS & WALKERS: Esplanade,Tuesday, TAKE HEART WALK GROUP: Monday (AM), (BI), Lorraine Penny Thursday, Saturday (AM), (BI), Robyn McKey 06-354-9952.

04-566-3826 CLUB PED: Monday, Wednesday, (PM), (IA), Ongley Park; Saturday, LEISURE WALKERS: seniors, Tuesday (AM), Judy, 04-528-4445 (AM), Esplanade, (IA), David Young 06-356-7179 HUTT VALLEY MARATHON CLINIC: Mark Potter, info@hvmc.org.nz HEARTY STRIDERS: Thursday (PM), (BI), Esplanade, Adrienne Ken- WALK WAINUI: Monday (AM), (BIA), Shirley 04-564-6179 nedy 06-350-8617 ALICETOWN WALKING GROUP: Monday (AM), Karen 04-589-2646 MASSEY WALKERS: Monday, Thursday, noon, Massey Recreation KIWI MASTERS WALKERS: Wednesday Saturday, Sunday (PM), Richard Centre, (BIA) Chin Diew Lai 06-350-5799 ext 2471 Davies 04-566-1335 or 027-566-1335 MANAWATU WALKWAYS PROMOTION SOCIETY’S MONTHLY WALKERS: OLDER ADULTS – LEISURE WALKING GROUP: Judy 04-528-4445 Sunday (AM), (IA) Gillian Absolom 06-329-6898 NORDIC WALKING: Sunday (AM), Silva 04-562-7671 or 021-175-4081, METHODIST AGAPE FELLOWSHIP WALKERS: Wednesday (AM), (B), silva.noakes@gmail.com Lorna Goodwin, 06-358-2860 PETONE COMMUNITY HOUSE WALKING GROUP: 1st and 3rd Thursday U3A Exploring Walkways: Thursday (PM), (B), Lynley Watson 06- (AM), Michelle 356-4384 PORIRUA MANA JOHNSONVILLE WOMEN’S AFTER 5.30 WALKING GROUP: Tuesday, Thursday (PM), (I), FRIDAY WALKERS: Brian Grinstrup or Bruce Sheppard 04-237-6374 Liz MacNeill 06-357-8216 TAWA LINDEN HIKERS: 04-232-8705 FEILDING CHURTON PARK COMMUNITY WALKERS: Wednesday (AM), Thursday SENIOR WALKING GROUP: Tuesday, Thursday (AM), (BI), Gail Byrnes (PM), Churton Park shops, churtonparkcw@gmail.com 06-323-5470 WEA RAMBLERS: Muriel Thompson, Tawa FOXTON TAWA/LINDEN WALKERS: Maurice 04-232-4407 or Claire 04-232-8764 FOXPEDS: Monday (PM), Foxton, Foxton Beach, (BIA), Dave Blackett, WHITBY SUNDAY WALKERS: Sunday (AM), Don Quirk 04-234-7700 or 06-363-5743, Michelle Duffy, 06-363-7987 Christine Coshan 04-971-2141 g.cl@paradise.net.nz LEVIN

LEVIN HARRIER & WALKING CLUB: Saturday (PM), (BIA), Ivan Morgan 06-368-3622 WEDNESDAY LEISURE WALKERS: Wednesday (AM), (BIA), Lila McCall, 06-367-9070 LEVIN JOGGERS & WALKERS CLUB: Tuesday, Wednesday, Sunday, (BIA), Colleen Francis 06-368-8624

WAIRARAPA MASTERTON

WALKING GROUP RECREATIONAL: Edna Patrick, 06-377-4338 ORIENTEERING GROUP: 06-377-7961 or 379-5124 CARTERTON 40+ STRIDERS: Ada Lyster, 06-379-8746 RUAMAHANGA RAMBLERS: Winter Saturday, Summer Tuesday (PM), (BIA), Ray Wallis 06-377-0703 MARTINBOROUGH

MARTINBOROUGH WALKING GROUP: Barbara Behrent 06-306-9226

WELLINGTON WELLINGTON

BROOKLYN WALKERS: Edith, 04-384-6799 BUGGY WALKING GROUP: First Thursday of month (AM), www. buggywalk.co.nz CANCER SOCIETY, WELLINGTON DIVISION: Monday (AM), 04 389 8421, contact@cancersoc.org.nz FOREST & BIRD: 04-567-7271

UPPER HUTT

AURORA HARRIER CLUB: Peter Wrigley, p.wiggles@paradise.net.nz TUESDAY TRIPPERS: Bill Wallace, 04-528-6201,bradburn@globe. net.nz FANTAIL HIKERS: Marg Eagles, Upper Hutt TRENTHAM UNITED HARRIER CLUB: Jon Roskvist, 021-460-877 or 04-526-6906 UPPER HUTT WALKING & TRAMPING CLUB: Helen 04-970-2046 KAPITI

KAPITI CARDIAC CLUB: Tuesday, Thursday, Graham Priest 04-293-7872 KAPITI WEDNESDAY WALKERS: Wednesday (AM), Robin Leger 04905-4680 or Muriel Hill 04-293-5121 KAPITI THURSDAY WALKERS: Thursday, email kapitithursdaywalkers@ gmail.com, www.sportsground.co.nz/kapitithursdaywalkers KAPITI JOGGERS & WALKERS: Sunday (AM), Pam Childs 04-902-1754 KAPITI WANDERERS: Tuesday (alt), email: kapitiwanderers@gmail. com, www.sportsground.co.nz/kapitiwanderers KAPITI WEEKDAY WALKERS: Monday, Wendy Stratford 04-905-7520 twstratford@gmail.com, or Julian Harris 04-905-3733 junjo@clear. net.nz

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Fitness levels: “B” beginner, ”I” intermediate, “A” advanced. (AM) denotes morning walk, (PM) denotes an afternoon or evening walk.

Group co-ordinators are asked to please advise us of any updates by fax 06-358-6864 or email walkingnz@xtra.co.nz.

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SPORT KAPITI THURSDAY WALKERS: Thursday (AM), 04-296-9022

SOUTH ISLAND MARLBOROUGH BLENHEIM

50 PLUS WALKING GROUP: Monday (AM), 03-579-3101 PICTON WALK GROUP: Monday (AM), Claire 03-573-7991

NELSON MOTUEKA

MOTUEKA FIFTY PLUS WALKERS: Motueka, Thursday, www.motueka50pluswalkers.org.nz, secretary50pluswalkers@gmail.com or Shirley 03-528-9434 NELSON

NELSON STRIDERS: Tuesday, Thursday, (PM), (BI), Averil West, 03548-3655 NELSON KIWISENIORS: Tuesday (AM), 03-548-1126 WAKEFIELD WALKING GROUP: Thursday (AM), Lou Manson, 03541-8414 TAHUNA KIWISENIORS: Monday (AM), 03-548-1126 NELSON 50+ WALKING GROUP: Tuesday, Thursday (AM), Jeff Connell 03-545-9180 WAIMEA HARRIER WALKERS: Saturday (PM), Sunday (AM) (BIA), Heather McNabb, 03-547-8490 WEDNESDAY WALKERS: Wednesday (AM), Visitor Information Centre WAIMEA TRAMPING CLUB: Sunday (AM) (PM), wtc.richmond@gmail. com, www.waimeatrampingclub.org.nz TAKAKA

GOLDEN BAY ALPINE AND TRAMPING CLUB: Day walk and overnight trips, Kevin Durkan kdurantc@yahoo.com

CANTERBURY CHRISTCHURCH

ACTIVE CHRISTCHURCH SUNDAY WALK: Sunday (AM) (BI), 03-9418999 AVON LOOP/CITY KIWISENIORS: Monday (AM), (B), Sport Canterbury 03-373-5060 AVONSIDE KIWI SENIORS: Wednesday (AM), (BI), Jan 03-389-2755 AVONHEAD KIWISENIORS: Friday (AM), (BI), Bess 03-342-7647 AFTER WORK WALKING CLUBS: around Christchurch, (BI), for all ages and fitness levels, recreation clerk, CCC 03-371-1778.

ARAI-WALKERS: Wednesday, Wainoni/Aranui, Natalie Hoani, 03388-2593 ARTHRITIC AMBLERS: Wednesday, (B) suitable for people with physical disabilities, Trevor Randall 03-385-7446 BEXLEY KIWISENIORS: Tuesday (AM), (BI), Kath 03388-6161 BARRINGTON KIWISENIORS: Friday (AM), (BI), Nita 03-337-1493 BECKENHAM WALK ‘n’ TALK: Thursday (PM), Di 03-385-3452 BISHOPDALE RAMBLERS: Wednesday (AM) (I), Bishopdale, Paul Muir 03-359-7971 BISHOPDALE TRAMPING CLUB: Wednesday (AM),(IA), www.bishopdaletrampers.org.nz BURNSIDE JOGGERS & WALKERS CLUB: Sunday (AM) Burnside, Anne Uys 03-342-6337 BRIGHTON RAMBLERS WALKING GROUP: Tuesday (AM), New Brighton (I), Marlene Crocker 03-388-1115 CANTERBURY RACE WALKERS ASSOCIATION: Monday, Wednesday, (BIA), coordinates all Canterbury race walkers and friendly race walking, Ann Henderson 03-387-0387 CANTERBURY UNIVERSITY TRAMPING CLUB: Wednesday (PM), Darryn Welham 03-960-3808 CARDIAC COMPANIONS: Sunday fortnight, (PM) Neville Wootton 03-942-5453 CARDIAC CARE GROUP, Marg Allison 03-366-2112 CCC EASTENDERS: Monday (AM), (IA), or Bruce 03-388-7295 CCC GARDEN CITY WALKERS: Saturday (AM) (IA), Helen 03-382-2302 CCC GLOW WORM EVENING WALKERS: Wednesday (PM) (IA), Norm Wells 03-981-5487 CCC HALSWELL: Saturday (AM) (PM), (IA), Pauline 03-322-8057: Sunday, Terrence 03-322-8092 CCC SUNSHINE WALKERS: Tuesday (PM (IA), Jim 03-389-1982 or Hope 03-389-7997 CCC SHIRLEY RECREATIONAL WALKERS: Monday, Thursday (AM), (IA), 03-941-5409 CCC SOCKBURN: Tuesday (AM) (IA), Estelle 03-342-7841:Friday (AM) (IA), Jo 03-349-7146 CCC WEEKEND WANDERS: Sunday (PM) (IA), Marilyn 03-338-3826 CHRISTCHURCH PERSONAL GUIDING SERVICE: Daily (AM) (BIA), Cathedral Square, C Tonge 03-981-6350 CHRISTCHURCH MARATHON CLINIC: Saturday (AM), E: chchmarathonclinic@gmail.com, https://chchmarathonclinic.wordpress.com/ CHRISTCHURCH METHODIST HARRIER CLUB: Saturday (PM) (BIA), Mrs Lindsay Evans 03-355-4356 CRUSADERS WALKERS: Tuesday (BI), (50’s and above age group), Pauline 03-385-9947 DARLINGTON KIWISENIORS: Wednesday (AM), Bill 03-385-1925 DIAMOND HARBOUR RAMBLERS: Tuesday, Hunters Road, (BI), John Willis 03-329-4243 EASTENDERS: Monday (AM), Bruce 03-981-5329 www.walkingnewzealand.co.nz

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ELLESMERE TRAMPING GROUP: Thursday (AM), Trish Vessey 03329-1865 HERITAGE WALKS: Thursday, (AM), Graeme Stanley 03-980-1553 HOON HAY KIWISENIORS: Wednesday (AM), (BI), Barbara 03-338-8306 KAIAPOI WALKERS GROUP: Tuesday, Wednesday (AM), Don Lyon 03-327-9064 KAIAPOI NORDIC WALKERS: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Trudy Blakey 03-327-4457 KIWISENIORS WALKING GROUPS: for the over 50’s, 23 surburban groups plus rural locations, Sport Canterbury 0800-228-483 LAMBDA DAY TRAMPERS: every second Sunday, (BI), social group for gays and lesbians of all ages, Helen Davies 03-337-6103 LINWOOD AVENUE WALKING GROUP: Wednesday, Thursday (AM) (B), 03-389-5303 LINWOOD KIWISENIORS: Thursday (AM), Phyl 03-389-6130 LYTTELTON WALKING GROUP: Tuesday, Lyttlelton, (BI), Ada Goodwin 03-328-7235 MAIREHAU LADIES PROBUS, Tuesday, Leah 03-385-6310 MARYVILLE KIWISENIORS:: Monday (AM), Valmai 03-377-8742 MERIVALE KIWISENIORS: Monday (AM), (BI), June 03-355-8703 MT PLEASANT KIWISENIORS: Tuesday (AM), (BI), Pauline 03-384-4794 NEW BRIGHTON KIWISENIORS: Wednesday, (AM), (BI), (both walkers and strollers), Joy 03-383-4494 NEW BRIGHTON WORKING MENS CLUB WALKING GROUP: Tuesday (I), Jenny Wilson 03-332-8818 NEW BRIGHTON OLYMPIC ATHLETIC CLUB: Saturday (PM), Margaret Flanagan 03-355-4902 NEW BRIGHTON HILL WALKERS: Wedneday (AM), Royce henery 03-388-7335 NEW BRIGHTON WALK ‘n’ TALK: Monday (AM), 03-941-8999 NEW BRIGHTON STROLLERS: Wednesday (AM), Tess Hall 03-388-3237 NEW BRIGHTON WALKERS: Wednesday (AM), Larry Jones 03-382-0201 NO HILL WALKERS: Thursday (AM) (B), Hazel Matthews 03-385-5338 NEW BRIGHTON NORDIC WALKERS: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Kerstin Fahrenschone 03-388-0000 NZ VIVENDI SOCIETY: Sunday, Janet 03-389-1609 PAPANUI WALK ‘n’ TALK: Wednesday (AM), 03-941-6840 OPAWA KIWISENIORS: Monday, Tuesday (AM), (BI), Carol 03-332-5638 PAPANUI KIWISENIORS: Tuesday (AM), (BI), Elaine 03-352-7519 PAPANUI WALK ‘n’TALK: Wednesday (AM), 03-941-8999 PARKLANDS KIWISENIORS: Thursday (AM), (BI), Bernard Marriott 03-383-2665 PARKLANDS WALKING GROUP: Thursday (AM), BIA), Bernard Marriott 03-383-2665 PENINSULA TRAMPING CLUB: (Family Strollers Group), Sunday, Gloucester Street, (BIA), Merv Meredith info@peninsulatrampingclub. org.nz, www.peninsulatrampingclub.org.nz PIONEER STROLLERS: Thursday, (BIA), Shirley Hitchcock, 03-322-7220 PIONEER TRAMPERS: Thursday (AM) (IA), Alan Williams 03-343-2216 PLEASURE WALKERS: Monday, Wednesday (AM) (I), Colleen Cook 03-389-8607 PORT HILLS NORDIC WALKERS: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Chiaki Jagau 03-981-1433 PORT HILLS ATHLETIC WALKING GROUP: Wednesday, Friday (AM), Glen Watts 03-332-1964.Saturday (PM), Peter King 03-341-1154 Q.E. PARK STROLLERS: Tuesday, John Plumridge 03-385-9710 RETIREES CLUB KIWISENIORS: Wednesday, (AM), (BI), (both walkers and stroller groups), Sport Canterbury 03-373-5060 RETIREES SOCIAL CLUB: Thursday (PM) (BI), 50 + age group, Ira Williams 03-342-8172 or Carol Roscoe 03-337-5901 RICCARTON KIWISENIORS: Wednesday (AM), (BI), Enid 03-348-9351 ROWLEY WALKERS: Wednesday (AM), Lee Tuki 03-373-8150 ROVER HARRIER CLUB: Saturday (PM) (BI), Steve Mitchell 03-348-8195 SALLY STROLLERS: Saturday, fortnight, general Christchurch, (B), leisurely pace, Margaret Bennetts, 03-322-9187 SHIRLEY RECREATIONAL WALKERS: Monday, Thursday (AM), 03941-5409 “ A SLICE OF HERITAGE WALKS” with Walktologist Graeme Stanley, Tues (PM) Thurs (AM ), Graeme Stanley 03- 980-1553 SOMERFIELD KIWISENIORS: Tuesday (AM), (BI), Marie 03-337-1436 SOUTH CHRISTCHURCH/SYDENHAM WALKERS: Sunday (AM) (IA), Ray 03-332-0555 ST PETERS WALKING GROUP: Monday (PM), Thursday (PM) (BIA), Audrey 03-348-9157 SUNSHINE WALKERS: Tuesday (PM), 03-389-1982 MY WALKING GROUP: For singles 45+, Saturday, Sunday, (BI), Llolyd 03-323-6232, cathygoulter@xtra.co.nz TUESDAY TREKKERS CLUB: Tuesday, (AM), Necia Sullivan 03-338-9035 TOWER TRAMPING & WALKING CLUB: Tuesday, (IA), Denise Mason 03-942-6735, Sunday, Yvonne van Eerden 03-339-0751 WAINONI/AVONSIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES: Thursday (AM), 03389-2285 WALKIE TALKIES WALKING GROUP: Thursday, (B), members mainly from Burwood United and St Kentigerns Parish, John 03-981-9994 www.walkingnewzealand.co.nz

XY’s WALKERS: Thursday (AM), Maureen Ryder 03-383-1226 or Alison Jarvis 03-338-2678 “Y’s WALKERS” (YMCA): Tuesday, Thursday, (BIA), City YMCA, 03-3660689, Bishopdale Community Centre, 03-359-8330 “Y’s TREKKERS”: Monday, Port Hills, (IA), City YMCA, 03-366-0689 YMCA WALKING GROUP: Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday (AM), Jill O’Connor 03-366-0689 WAYFARERS WALKING GROUP:Thursday (AM) (BI), 50 + age group, Lilly Chamberlain 03-981-9545, 021-399-546, lillianc@paradise.net.nz WEEKEND WANDERERS: Sunday (PM), Marilyn Dean 03-338-3826 30 MINUTE WALKING GROUP: Thursday (AM), Greame Stanley 30 MINUTE WALKING GROUP:Tuesday (AM), (B), Risingholme, Christchurch City Council 03-941-8999 30 MINUTE WALKING GROUP:Monday, Wednesday, Friday (AM), (BIA), Bishopdale, Christchurch City Council 03-941-8999 30 MINUTE WALKING GROUP: Thursday (AM) (PM), (BIA), 03-94128999

03-434-5061 OAMARU FRIDAY WALKERS: Every 2nd Friday (AM), Barbara McGann 03-434-9178 WEDNESDAY WALKERS TRAMPING GROUP: Jane Naish 03-434-6363 NORTH OTAGO TRAMPING & MOUNTAINEERING CLUB: Margie Carrington 03-434-8484

DUNEDIN

PLEASANT POINT

ACTIVE WALKERS: Monday (PM), Bill Brockie 03-467-9114 ARIKI WALKING GROUP: Wednesday, Saturday (PM), Karen Martin 03-456-4223 CIVIL SERVICE: Saturday, (PM), Peter Smith 03-471-7127 CAVERSHAM HARRIERS WALKING GROUP: Saturday (PM), Keiran Columb 03-489-4027 DUNEDIN CITY RAMBLERS: Wednesday,(AM) Alison St John 03476-2344 GREEN HUT TRACK GROUP DUNEDIN: walking track maintainers, Wednesday (AM), Graeme Elliot 03-454-3350, ellio@xtra.co.nz HALFWAY BUSH WALKING GROUP: Tuesday (AM), (I), Pat Garth, 03-476-2579 HILL CITY WALKING GROUP: Saturday (PM), Alex McEwan 03-455-4851 KOPUTAI WALKING GROUP: 2nd Tuesday, (AM), Noeline Forgie, 03-472-8302 LEITH WALKERS: Saturday (PM), Kevin Blair 03-476-3289 MORNINGTON MONDAY WALKERS: Monday (AM), (B), Kieran Hurring 03-453-4423 MULTI-PEAK FITNESS WALKERS: Wednesday (AM), Marelda Gallaher 03-477-6057 or 027-222-3863 MOSGIEL 50’s FORWARD WALKING GROUP: Thursday (AM), Roberta Telfer 03-488-3175 OTAGO TRAMPING/MOUNTAINEERING CLUB: Sunday (AM), Ian Sime 03-453-6185 OVER 30’s TRAMPING CLUB: Sunday (AM), Janice Hodges 03-489-4071 PHOENIX CLUB WALKING GROUP: Wednesday (AM), Nina Davidson 03-471-0114 PINEHILL WALKING GROUP: Thursday (AM), Norman Vare 03-473-8683 ST KILDA COMMUNITY CLUB WALKING GROUP: Tuesday, (AM), Ngaire McIndoe 03-456-4478 TAIERI RECREATIONAL TRAMPING CLUB: Wednesday (AM), Ian Fleming 03-489-8964 TRIXIE TRAMPERS: Thursday (AM), Alison Jones 03-489-8372 WEA OVER 50’s TRAMPING CLUB: 2nd & 4th Tuesday, (A), Chris James 03-488-2228 WAIHOLA WALKERS: Wednesday (AM), Elizabeth Jones 03-489-8064 XY TRAMPING CLUB: 1st & 3d (& 5th) Tuesday, (AM), Prue Turnbull 03-454-3991 Y’S WALKING GROUP: Sunday (AM), Betty Booth 03-456-2000 60 PLUS WALKING GROUP: Monday (AM), Jimsie Smith 03-466-7374 60’s PLUS RAMBLERS: 1st & 3rd Tuesday, Brian Ralph 03-476-6514 60’s PLUS TRAMPING CLUB: 2nd & 4th Thursday, (A), >4 hours, Karen Byers 03-456-2595 60 PLUS HIKERS: 2nd & 4th Tuesday, (AM), Jasmone Chin 03-453-6526

TIMARU

ALEXANDRA HARRIER & WALKERS CLUB: Saturday (PM), April to October, John Thompson 03-448-7244, www.alexharriers.co.nz

RURAL CANTERBURY

CHEVIOT KIWISENIORS: Tuesday (AM), (BI), Sport Canterbury 03373-5060 ELLESMERE TRAMPING GROUP: Thursday (AM) (IA), Trish Vessy 03-329-1865 LEESTON KIWISENIORS: Friday (AM), (BI), Sport Canterbury 03373-5060 LINCOLN KIWISENIORS: Monday (AM), (BI), Sport Canterbury 03373-5060 RANGIORA KIWISENIORS: Wednesday (AM), (BI), Sport Canterbury 03-373-5060 SOUTHBRIDGE KIWISENIORS: Friday (AM), (BI), Sport Canterbury 03-373-5060 ASHBURTON

ASHBURTON HARRIER CLUB: Tuesday, Saturday, Sunday, Merv & Jackie Gilbert 03-308-5894 KIWISENIORS WALKING GROUPS: for the over 50’s, Wednesday (AM), (BI), two groups, Janice Cochrane, Sport Mid-Canterbury, 03-307-0475 ASHBURTON STROLLERS CLUB: 1st Sunday and 2nd Wednesday of month, (AM), Diane Milne 03- 303-6250 METHERN & DISTRICT TRAMPING CLUB: Helen 03-308-7011 MT SOMERS TRACKS: Warren Jowett 03-303-0880, www.doc.govt.nz MT SOMERS WALKWAY: Marilyn & Bruce Gray 03-303-0809 PACIFIC ISLAND WALKING GROUP: Ashburton Domain, Torika Patterson 03-308-5868 ST DAVIDS WALKING GROUP: Barbara Lischner 03-308-5174, www. st-davids.org.nz WALKING GROUP: Eileen Ward 03-307-0475 WALKING GROUP: Ethel Powell 03-308-9662

STH CANTERBURY PLEASANT POINT WALK GROUP: Wednesday (AM), (BI), Esther, 03-614-7524 TIMARU HARRIER CLUB: Saturday (PM), March to October, Alister 03-686-1010 GLENITI WALK GROUP: Wednesday (AM), (BI), Edna 03-688-0779 HIGHFIELD WALK GROUP: Thursday (AM), (BI), Joy, 03-688-9888 KIWISENIORS WALKING GROUPS: for the over 50’s, Verna Parker, Sport Canterbury, 03-686-0751 MARCHWIEL WALK GROUP: Monday (AM), Colleen, 03-688-6231 SOUTHEND WALK GROUP: Monday (AM), (BI), Bev, 03-688-8381 WANDERERS WALK GROUP: Thursday (AM), (BI), Brian Illingworth 03-684-9355

WEST COAST GREYMOUTH

GREYMOUTH CATHOLIC WOMENS LEAGUE WALKING GROUP: Nora Sheard, 03-768-6479 GREYMOUTH OVER 50’S: Graham Schaef, 03-768-7437 GREYMOUTH DAUDLERS: Yvonne Davison 03-768-6664 KIWISENIORS WALKING GROUPS: for the over 50’s, Don Monk SWC 03-768-0775 RUNANGA WALKING GROUP: Pat Butler 03-762-7665 BLACKBALL WALKING GROUP: Charlie Quibell 03-732-4887 HOKITIKA

HOKITIKA KIWISENIORS: Monday (AM), (BI), Pavel Bare SWC, 03756-9037 HARI HARI KIWISENIORS: Historic walks (BI), Pavel Bare SWC, 03756-9037 HOKI HIKERS: Tuesday (AM), Margaret Stevens 03-755-6466

ALEXANDRA

QUEENSTOWN

WAKATIPU WALKERS: Thursday, www.wakatipuwalkers.co.nz WANAKA

WANAKA WALKERS: Monday (February - Mid-December (AM), (BI), Ruth Harrison 021-474-904, ruthharrison01@icloud.com, wanakawalkers.blogspot.co.nz

SOUTHLAND INVERCARGILL

60’S UP WALK GROUP: Monday (AM), Olive Swain 03-214-4802 YMCA WOMEN’S WALKING GROUP: Tuesday (AM), Joan Tuffery, 03-216-7377 ACTIVE WALKERS KIWI SENIORS: Thursday, Sport Southland 03-2112150, e:kiwiseniors@sportsouthland.co.nz, wwwsportsouthland. co.nz GORE

GORE DISTRICT WALKERS: Tuesday (AM), NgaireEvans 03-208-4744 or Maureen Jones 03-208-7322, maway50@gmail.com HOKONUI TRAMPING CLUB: Margaret Hughes 03-208-7053 NORTHERN SOUTHLAND

ACTIVE WALKERS: 2nd and 4th Thursday, Sport Southland, wsportsouthland.co.nz

OTAGO CLYDE

CLYDE OFF-ROAD WALKERS: Monday, Wednesday, Judy Blanch, 03449-2580, Eleanor Edgar 03-448-6767 OAMARU

SENIOR CITIZENS WALKING GROUP: Wednesday (AM), Nancy Bell

LEGEND

Fitness levels: “B” beginner, ”I” intermediate, “A” advanced. (AM) denotes morning walk, (PM) denotes an afternoon or evening walk.

Group co-ordinators are asked to please advise us of any updates by fax 06-358-6864 or email walkingnz@xtra.co.nz.

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