Churton Park Community Walkers

Newsletter July 14th 2024

Last week’s walks.

The Wednesday walkers travelled to Karori for their walks – 4 Pleasure Pacers, 19 Steady Steppers and 22 Fast Footers.  On Thursday 5 walkers undertook a walk from  Churton Park to Johnsonville and return. The end of the week saw another good turnout of the Friday team with 22 completing a walk around Spicers Forest.

Our 11^th  Anniversary Dinner – 27th July.

As our anniversary function approaches we will shortly be confirming final numbers for the purposes of catering.  This is the final opportunity for any additional bookings.

Brian Vincent
Convenor

Last opportunity to book for our mid-winter function.

For further information, including details of the menu, please click on this link:      Mid-winter function

A reminder about walking arrangements:

After everyone has arrived at the starting location, each group should confirm its leader and also nominate a ‘tail-end Charlie’.  Please remember the medical kits – there is at least one for each group – and a reminder to take photographs. These allow us to record that day’s walkers in each group.  Please forward these by email.

Finally, just a reminder to swap telephone numbers amongst those with whom you travel to the starting point each week. A handy back-up for any late changes to arrangements.

Reminder:   Please ensure that you inform your group’s leader if you leave a walk partway through.

Notice:

Walk Details for Wednesday July 17th 2024. 

This Week's Walks: It is still school holidays so we will take on the lighter commuting traffic again and head to Evans Bay for our walks.  We have been asked if we can make a set time for the start of each walk and only change it for faraway distance walks.  So all walks will now start at 9:20am (unless there is a good reason to change this). Thus all walkers should be at the start point ready to start walking at 9:20am. 

PPs:  A 3.78 km loop walk around the streets of Kilbirnie taking in the local shops, Rita Angus Retirement Village and the Netball Stadium (Akau Tangi Sports Centre).  Generally a flat walk.  There are a few road crossings but walkers should be able to do this at traffic lights or pedestrian crossings.  If the winds are light and the sun is out the walkers could include a deviation to the shoreline on the part of the walk returning to the cars.  You can see the walk here

SSs:  A 6.29 km loop walk.  The walk is a reversal of a walk carried out a year or two ago.  It heads north along the shoreline and returns on the sloping land above Evans Bay.  So there are some climbs, but nothing too drastic.  You can see the walk here

FFs:  A  7.24 km loop walk taking in the streets above Evans Bay and returning back along the coast.  Of course some reasonable climbs are included. You can see the walk here and on Plotaroute here

Parking: The parking for all three groups is on Evans Bay Parade alongside the Evans Bay Marina or within the Evans Bay Marina Carpark.   (We have used this parking location several times before.) There should be no problem with the parking.

Coffee: No bookings for coffee have been made.  So walkers can get a group together and head to any of the cafés on the way home; there are a couple on Evans Bay Parade and of course there is always Simmer on the way home.

Russell Paterson

Website

When you open the website to view your walk have a quick look at the “Home Page”  This usually has new images each week showing views from one of our walks.

Cancellation

If the walks are cancelled an email will be sent out as early as possible but definitely before 8:00am.

Walk Schedules

You can look at the walk schedule for July 2024 here

Photos

Walkers - please try and take a photo of each group on walking days and email them to this link.  Preferably small size (around 450kb).  It has been great to receive a larger number of photos from PPs and SSs - keep them coming, please!

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