Three Fingers – Bob’s Spur Ruahine Forest Park Saturday June 15, 2013 Map: BK37 The Wednesday tramping group did this trip recently, and suffered much blood-letting. We therefore were all prepared and most of us wore our thermal leggings. The temperature was down to 1C outside when we arrived at the farm’s car park on… [Read More]
From Zero to Hero and then back again… and again
Bob’s Spur to Three Fingers, Wednesday April 24 2013 The good ship “Metro” left Winery Docks at the appointed time of 7.30 am on a fine and sunny morning with Capt Kelvin Shaw at the helm and his usual motley crew on board. We sailed off down to the Port of Mangleton where we disembarked… [Read More]
Scratches and blood galore didn’t spoil the scree run
Three Fingers to Bob’s Spur, Saturday July 3 2010. Map: BK37 Trampers: Murray White, Julia Mackie, Alison Greer, Colin McNatty, Geoff Donkin, Sue Martin, John Dobbs, John Marshall, Sue Marshall, Gordon Tapp, Ted Angove, Paul Exeter, Murray Goss, Isobel Holdaway, Jude Paton, Viv Bramley and Marc Marchal It was a crispy cold Saturday morning when… [Read More]
The Earth moved for us – thanks to the blast
Three Fingers – Bobs Spur, Wednesday, September 24 2008. Map: U21 Trampers: Paul Exeter (reporter), Rosemary Jeffery, Alison Greer, Vic Bullock, John Marshall, Thelma Tasman-Smith, Manfred Hausler, Jeanne van den Hout, John Gray, Robyn Smith, Liz Stringer, Penny and Arthur Mead, Kelvin Shaw, Peter Slagter We headed south down Highway 50, out through Kereru to… [Read More]
