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The Spike or Victoria College Review 1946

Tramping Club

Tramping Club

To provide every student at Victoria College with the opportunity of joining organized trips into the hills, and to foster in every way the growth of tramping, skiing and climbing sports in New Zealand-these are the aims of the V.U.C. Tramping Club, and perhaps no other students in the country are so favoured by the proximity of bush covered hills and the central position of their home town with respect to the Climbing and Ski-ing resorts of both Islands.

Of no less importance is the social aspect of tramping. "An Interim Debating Society," "A Pocket Conference of Scientists," or "A Mutual Affection Club"—all are names which might be equally well applied in the highest Platonic sense.

It has been the policy on the part of successive committees to provide one tramp every weekend, alternating two day tramps in the Tararua and Orongorongo ranges with Sunday jaunts to the Coast, Hutt Valley and environs.

On the "long" weekends the more ambitious invariably succeed in seducing the energetic members to the greater feats-two such trips have been organized during 1946, a northern crossing of the Tararuas, and a crossing and traverse of the Ruahines. Some twenty members were on both of these tramps.

Ski-ing and climbing-these are the sports of the Winter and Summer enthusiasts. Three large parties to Arthur's Pass in successful Alpine expedition to the Wilkin Valley-these trips of past years are now a bygone thing: future activities will include annually two summer and two winter trips.

This August, fifty members travelled to Ruapshu and Egmont on ski-ing and climbing trips, and in January the club is running trips to the Waimakariri and Hopkins Valleys. It is the Club's ambition, in the face of practical difficulties, to compete in the University Winter Tournament (at present only Otago and Canterbury are contesting the ski championships). The chief difficulty facing the club is the acquisition of sufficient equipment to carry out its varied activities on an adequate scale. This we hope to achieve in forthcoming seasons.