ATC Leaders

Hi all ATC leaders, In my opinion, it is a good idea to routinely speak to the trips organiser about the trip gets back. Please call them if they do not call you, for a debrief. Would you please chat with some people on your trip, new and old, and listen to what they want or dislike? Then when you talk about your trip with the trips officer, you could pass on useful facts about our people. For example if several people say they want easier, slower or shorter trips, and you told the organiser, then we would run them. Likewise if they wanted more exciting trips, or mountaineering, or coasteering, or running! Of course, people often say they want something and then fail to patronise it when it is arranged for them. We are having another run in Sept and another "beginners" in Aug. You will be aware that our weekends trips have focussed on easy weekends for beginners, not to far away to cut time and money. For Sundays we are running a mix of tramps, especially easy coastal walks, and long walks in the Coromandel & Kaimai Ranges. We had four trampers for our under second 40s trip, which merged with the general trip, last weekend. This shows that under 40s trips are not wanted by most people, as there are many more than four club members under 40, maybe three or four dozen -- I do not know as we do not ask age, and a good few non members would have heard about our trips on the web by googling, or from tramper.co.nz. Cheers, Bruce.