The Otago
Tramping Club was formed in Dunedin on the 23rd of August, 1923.
Ever since then the club has promoted and participated in many
types of outdoor recreation, with our main activity still being
tramping.
We are fortunate
in Dunedin/Otago to have a wide variety of excellent tramping
country within easy reach. A lot of our weekly day-trips centre
on the Silver Peaks Reserve, to the north of Dunedin where we own
or maintain five huts.
Weekend trampers
generally head for the National Parks - we use Fiordland, Mt.
Aspiring and Mt. Cook National Parks regularly for our trips.
In addition to this, we also visit other reserves, such as the
Catlins and the Lake Ohau area.
This site will
tell you what you need to know about the OTMC, and a little about
tramping in general. We welcome new members to all the OTMC's
activities - the easiest way to find more out about us to come
along to one of our meetings. We hold weekly meetings nearly every
Thursday evening - Click here
for more information.
The purpose
of having any mountain club is to help beginners, organise trips,
provide facilities and a meeting place for people of similar interests
and provide education on safe tramping practices. The OTMC takes
an active part in the Dunedin Mountain Safety Committees business,
and the local land Search and Rescue organisation.
We also make
a point of respecting the environment we walk in. We recommend
the code for minimising impact on the back
country. This code was prepared for trampers by the Federated
Mountain Clubs of NZ, to which we belong. The OTMC was one of
12 New Zealand clubs that, in 1931, set up the FMC.
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