Back in the day...

Kieran — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 04:49:22 GMT

Wandering along Tararua ridgelines in the middle of the night? Cookers not working? Sound familiar? This was VUWTC (or VUCTC as it was then, the Victoria University College Tramping Club) back in 1932... By Moonlight over the Pinnacles. One thing's changed though, we no longer cut our tent poles at the bushline!

With our 90th jubilee coming up this year I was just looking round for a bit of info on our early days - and found that most of NZ's major newspapers from 1839 until 1945 have been digitized and are available, searchable on the web. A quick search for 'Victoria College Tramping Club' brought up a number of articles in the Evening post that may prove interesting to anyone interested in our history:

new route up marchant 22 Nov 1921
early tararua exploring 11 November 1929
vctc south island summer adventures 17 January 1931
founding of fmc 23 March 1931
vctc Arthur's pass adventures 20 January 1933
precursor to bush ball? 5 July 1933
vctc climbing and hot pools 1933
vctc Rapid climb of mt cook 21 February 1934
vctc 1934 agm
vctc search and rescue 18 January 1935
vctc 1936 agm
vctc 1937 summary and agm
vctc first women across whitcombe pass 3 June 1937
vctc lost in the tararuas 1938 follow up, sthn xing inquest, recovery
vctc in lewis pass 4 January 1939

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Back in the day...