Tramping clubs 2.0

June 2011

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June 2011

Day-trippers to Auckland's west coast use online websites like meetup.com to find people with similar interests. Photo: Josh Gale
In the fast-moving digital age, traditional tramping clubs are struggling to adapt and recruit new and younger members. Josh Gale looks at what they’re up against in the wired world When seven keen trampers sat together at the bottom of Rangitoto Island’s crater in 1925 they had no idea 86 years later about 3000 satellites […]
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