Photo: Ivory Lake
The West Coast is a long strip of wet forest and wild rivers between the Southern Alps and the Tasman Sea, and it gets a lot of rain.
The club's trips here include the Croesus Track and the Inland Pack Track in the Paparoa Range, the Old Ghost Road, huts in Victoria Forest Park, trips up the Toaroha and the Cedar Flats area, and an alpine traverse to the Gardens of Eden and Allah in the Adams Wilderness. They are mostly easy-medium to medium.
Highlight trips
Old Ghost Road2017 · Medium
Boo Boo Hut – the Toaroha and Diedrichs Range bear hunt2023 · Easy-Medium
Ivory Lake2017 · Easy-Medium
The Garden of Eden and Allah Ice Plateaus – Episode 32025 · Alpine 1
Across the Paparoa Range for Matariki2026 · Medium
Climbing Mt Adams2024 · Medium-Fit
Cycling the West Coast Wilderness Trailc. 2017
Tramping the Tops of the Tara-Papa-Rua-Bloody-Roas!2001- Trip reportDrongos in Westland 1976But. we-only-icame) because.we thought it might.be fun A warm breeze plays up the tussock flats. I sit on the stones by the river and watch the water slip away into the black of the valley. In the darkening sky above me a hint of pink slowly dissolves into…