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Tramping club to mark 100 years with 100 trips

The South Island's oldest tramping club is celebrating its centenary with 100 tramping trips over 12 months.

After five years of planning, Otago Tramping and Mountaineering Club's centenary trip programme begins on October 16.

Club secretary Debbie Pettinger said the 100 trips, the brainchild of her husband and club president Antony Pettinger, would recreate iconic walks from the club's past.

The first is a tramp in the Silver Peaks, where in 1922 it was decided

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