The country around Lake Taupō and the central plateau suits kayaks and bikes as well as boots. The club's reports here are few, and most are easy.
They include sea-kayak trips on Lake Taupō, a paddle down the Waikato River, cycling around the lake and on the Timber Trail through Pureora Forest, rock climbing at Kawakawa Bay, and trail runners at the Tarawera Ultramarathon.
Highlight trips
Timber Trail2022 · Easy-Medium
Rock climbing at Kawakawa Bay2014
WTMC Trail runners represent at Tarawera Ultramarathon2015- Trip reportTaraweraAt 6.40 p.m. on Friday the 3rd of tourists get aboard their launch and go June, twenty-four Tongue and Meats left across the lake to Tarawera. But for us Wellington Railway Station by truck, the route was not so easy. With Mount bound for Mount Tarawera. As…
- Trip reportRound Taupō with Picnicking & Coffee – Will you go?Iona tells of accompanying a friend who is completing the second of two laps (the enduro). My friend Helen has called in at our motel for an inter-lap pit stop and is soon feeling freshened up after a shower and breakfast despite having cycled since 1:30am.…
- From the newsletterKayaking on the Waikato River October 1997Jeanine Langvik calmly. We explored the shallow Hardcastle Lagoon, full of geese, swans and other big birds, water weeds, and duck shooters’ shacks. The river then slowly meandered on through farm land. After lunch the landscape gradually began to change…