Thursday Night Meetings
OTMC Thursday Night Meetings
The OTMC hold an evening meeting most Thursday evenings (see below for upcoming programme). Anyone with an interest in tramping or the outdoors are more than welcome to come along and find out what the club can offer. The door is open from 7.00pm and the meeting proper starts at 7.30pm. A structured programme normally follows some short club announcements. The programme often features a guest speaker talking about a tramping or outdoor related topic. Occasionally we hold training nights on various tramping subjects.
If you are interested in finding out more about the tramping club and tramping in our area then the club nights are often the best way to do so. You can sign up for weekend trips, or talk to leaders for the upcoming day and weekend trips.
We are fortunate to own our own clubrooms which allows us to display a comprehensive map and photo collection on our walls.
Our clubrooms are located at 3 Young Street, St Kilda. Young Street runs off Prince Albert Road, the main road through South Dunedin leading to the beach. Our clubroom is identified by a large sign and is just behind the corner dairy.
Upcoming Social Programme
March 13:
OTMC Auction
Come along to our annual
fundraising auction and see what gems you can pick up this
year. Need a replacement pack? There will be one. Need some
new camping cutlery and plates? We have just what you are
looking for!
Funds raised this year will go towards the publication of OTMC Outdoors 100 .
March 20:
OTMC New Year trip to Arthur's Pass
March 27:
Jennifer Andrews - Walking from Canterbury to Rome
April 3:
Andrew Nicols - Rebuilding the Clark A-Frame Hut
A group of OTMC trampers spent a week over New Years at the
Arthur's Pass Lodge, doing day trips (and an overnighter) from
the 'luxury' (read, hot water showers, mostly ....) of the
lodge. Come along to hear what the group got up to, the people
they met, the scenery (and the gorgeous plants) they saw, and
the competitive meal prep that was undertaken. Oh, and the
tramping - with lots of river crossings.
In late October 2024 Dunedin-born Jennifer Andrewes arrived in Rome, having set out on foot from Canterbury 110 days earlier to complete the historic 2,400km Via Francigena.
A convert to the power of walking to change your thinking – and your life, her pilgrimage posts, with their tales of courage and camaraderie, of pastries and persistence, are widely read.
Come along on 27 March to hear more about the physical and emotional rollercoaster of walking across four countries in three languages and all weathers.
Signed advance copies of Jennifer’s book ‘a will and a way: on foot across France’, will be available on the night for the special price of $30.
In November 2024, Andrew Nichols answered a request for the supply of a door and instead wound up joining a work party over 5 days fixing one of Fiordland’s quirkier huts... the Clark A Frame. Hear a presentation on it and be encouraged to do this now that DOC is under even more funding pressure to abandon/remove huts.
