THE LIGHTER THE PACK, THE FURTHER YOU GO

SPEND 42 YEARS with a tramping club and you’ll develop some decent trail fitness, especially if your club happens to organise dozens of trips a year including at least one long tramp in the South Island.

But one day you’ll also realise you maybe aren’t quite as fast as you once were. For 75-year-old Aucklander Roger Parsons, a veteran of the North Shore Tramping Club, that epiphany came in his