Over-40s tramp together
Life begins at forty for the 300-plus members of the Over 40s Tramping Club who keep fit and make new friends. With organised tramps on Wednesdays and Sundays, two on each day, and trips to other parts of the South Island, the club offers a wide variety of outdoor terrain. The chairman, Mr Don Malcolm, says a group recently walked the St James walkway, and another tramped the ReesDart track in the Mount
Aspiring area. He led a party on an eight-day tramp in the Mount Arthur tableland area of north-west Nelson Forest Park, and last year a group of 10 went into the Urewera region in the North Island. Don reckons the club is the most active tramping club in the country. It caters for people aged from 40 on, and has more women members than men — perhaps because most men continue working until they are 60 . or
65. A monthly newsletter is produced listing projected tramps, the distance and location, together with the name of the leader. Members enjoy the social side of the club, highlights of which are, in the words of one member, “nosh-ups at the Bellbird at Christmas and midwinter.” The club is temporarily closed to new members, but the membership officer is Maurice Barford, telephone 858-520.
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Press, 24 April 1986, Page 9
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