Tongariro a year-round wonderland 3 minutes to read Wanganui Tramping Club members cross the Wairere Stream near Whakapapa Village in day Tongariro National Park. Photo / Supplied Wanganui Midweek Tongariro National Park has the lion's share of tramps on the Wanganui Tramping Club's calendar for February. Members will spend four days in a ski lodge which they will use as a base for day trips around Mt Ruapehu. There will be a one-day crossing of the Tongariro Alpine Crossing, a trip which is taken often but is always popular. As well, members will spend a weekend on their annual visit to the south-eastern slopes of the mountain to remove wilding pines — a conservation project with which they have been involved since 1965.