TTC Club Night

Tuesday is our regular club night. Club night meetings are held an our centrally located clubrooms at 4 Moncrieff Street, off Elizabeth Street, off Kent Terrace.
We welcome new faces at our meetings, and there are always club members available to provide newcomers with information and answer any questions.

Forthcoming meetings

17 September Lord Howe Island - ‘the last paradise’

Diana Barnes visited World Heritage-listed Lord Howe Island, the isolated home of a variety of endemic native plant species and a multitude of nesting seabirds.

24 September From Chamonix to Zermatt

Lynne and Warren White hiked 200km along the magnificent, world-renowned Walker’s Haute Route between Chamonix and Zermatt in the French and Swiss Alps.

01 October Te Araroa continued: Te Waipounamu

Alan Graham and Liz Martin tramped the Te Araroa trail from Ship Cove to the Lewis Pass Road then, after a break, went back and walked the length of Canterbury to the Ahuriri River, marking the border between Canterbury and Otago.

08 October Cruising to the Antarctic Peninsula and hiking in Patagonia

Jacky Challis and Graham Lonsdale captured the breathtaking scenery and amazing wildlife of the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the Antarctic Peninsula, and fitted in some hiking in Patagonia. Come along and be wowed by their photos.

15 October A trip to central and western China

Tricia Walbridge went to central and western China, visiting Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu province, Dunhuang in the Gobi Desert, Xi'an, home of the Terracotta Warriors, and Pingyao, one of four remaining fully-intact walled cities in China.

22 October Climbing Mont Blanc

A party of five including Paul Maxim and three other club members crossed the European Alps via an arduous climb to the summit of its highest mountain, Mont Blanc (4,808m). The experience gave Paul an insight into previous TTC climbs on Mont Blanc.

29 October A remarkable career in press photography

Barry Durrant’s interest in photography began in his teens when he started tramping. As a fit and active cadet photographer at The Dominion he covered all the search and rescue operations. Barry’s long and distinguished career encompassed many significant events, from natural disasters to an All Blacks tour.

05 November Trekking in Morocco with camels and mules

Helen and Richard Gray hiked in some wild and beautiful areas of Morocco, doing a camel-assisted camping trek in the Sahara and a trek in the Jebel Sirwa range, this time assisted by mules.