The first step is the hardest

July 2016

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Oh, the games you can play when you reach the hut Photo: Ricky French
Treat tramping as a game and you’ll have no trouble getting young children to join you on your weekend ‘holiday’ to a hut It’s often said that every journey begins with a single step, and this becomes a particularly meaningful saying when your journey is literally a seemingly unending series of steps. Yes, tramping can […]
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