Miranda Hutton

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Summer Camp 2024

Come and explore the Central Plateau this Summer! Join the Alpine Sports Club summer camp tradition, complete with sing-songs, daily trips, fun activities, New Year's Day games and much more.   Summer Camp 2024-2025 Ohakune Duration: Thursday 26th December 2024 - Friday 3rd January 2025 Our Campsite: Is in a long grassy paddock beside a fresh-water lake, 15 minutes drive from Ohakune. Approximately a 5-hour drive from Auckland There will be at least two trips running every day, offering a variety of easy, hard, tramping, sightseeing or cycling options. Read More

THE BAITING TEAM NEEDS YOU!!!

 WANTED - BAITERS Are you fit, young(-ish) and strong??? Are you able to bush-crash? THE BAITING TEAM NEEDS YOU!!! We have a core of fabulous ASC volunteers who work to bait 9 lines in the area around our Waitākere Hut. The baiting programme is organised by Ark in the Park and they supply the bait and other equipment with the aim of eradicating predators - rats, stoats and possums. Baiting for rats consists of putting small plastic bags of bait pellets into plastic bait boxes. It does not involve seeing the rats or dealing with dead animals. Read More