NELSON TRAMPING CLUB

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 12 June 1945, Page 6

NELSON TRAMPING CLUB

TRIP TO BODING WATERWORKS Fourteen members of the Nelson Tramping Club met on Sunday at the Poorman’s Valley corner and went up the cut track from the Mental Hospital reservoir and over into the Roding River - waterworks. The track from the road to the reservoir is very much overgrown with gorse, but after that it is clearly defined, although steep. At the top of the ridge four of the party elected to stay behind and look for an elusive water hole to mark for future use, but the search was unsuccessful The rest went down a long spur to the waterworks, ate a quick lunch and were soon on the top again. Two Wellington Club trampers wer4 guests for the day and were impressed with the conditions for tramping in Nelson —especially the weather. The return trip down the open spur south of Poorman’s Valley provided easy going until the last steep scramble through bracken, bush lawyer and sliding shale to the bicycles, where members soothed their many scratches in the stream. The next tramp will be to Sharland’s creek and over Wells’s hill at Atawhai —a short winter’s day outing in open country.