TTC members on a climb of Manakau, Seaward Kaikoura Range, in 2002. Photo: Alan Knowles

A century of organised tramping in New Zealand

July 2019

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The country’s oldest tramping club marks its centenary on July 3. To record this milestone, the Tararua Tramping Club commissioned a book, Leading the Way, by Shaun Barnett and Chris Maclean.

Both Chris and I uncovered many delights and surprising details about the Tararua Tramping Club during five years working on the book. Most members won’t know that one of the club founders, Willie Field, almost drowned in the Arthur River, during a club tramping trip over the Milford Track in 1926. Field, then in his […]
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