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We are CUTC – one of the most active, epic and exciting clubs at UC!

Welcome to what’s going to be a gnarly year. Whether you’re a frothy fresher or a wild adventurer, we’ve got something for you!

If you would like to join the club come along to one of our weekly meetings or sign up below! Keep your eyes peeled for our weekly newsletters outlining the weekend tramps and don’t forget to follow our Facebook and Insta to stay up to date and to see all our epic misadventures! 

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What we do

We’ve been out and about since the 1930s, helping and encouraging people to get out into the hills. Now as the LARGEST sports club on campus we are doing better than ever! 

So whether you’re into tramping, mountaineering, conservation, trail running, partying in the bush (or all of the above), CUTC is the club for you. With trips heading out every weekend, what could be better! Here’s what we do!

Why join CUTC?

Tramping!!! We go tramping, lots. If you like tramping, want to get involved with a community of folks who know where all the coolest places to go, and know many of the tricks to thriving in our backcountry, then good news! This club is for you! Not convinced? Continue reading here!

Meetings

We meet weekly during term time. Wednesday 6:30pm, Beatrice Tinsley 111 (here). Come along to see what we get up to, find out about the upcoming trips or to join the club!

2021 Photo Competition

We had some fantastic entries for the 2021 photo competition!! Congrats to our winners, and thanks for entering! Check out the winners on this page. Looking forward to next year’s competition!

TROG

There’s nothing we love more than a good Trog. Trog stands for Trip Log, a story about your tramping club trip adventure! We collect these up over the year and put them into a book which is printed and given out at the end of the year. They are a good way to reminisce about your adventures, get some inspiration for future trips and are also a great source of club history! Want to write a Trog? Find out how here.

Read our latest Trog:

  • High Thumb, Low Thumb
    A brief account of a solid mission by a solid crew: Rachel Smith, along with Robert Phillips, Liv Martin, Kerry Clapham, Luke Whitehead & Alida van Vugt The weekend began …

Newsletter

Our newsletter for Semester 2 2021 is out now! Go check it out to hear about the shenanigans from the second half of this year: Refreshers, Snowcraft, Avoca, the meetup with OUTC and lots more! Check out all our past newsletters here!

Social Media

Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/UCTrampingClub

Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/cutc_nz/

Follow us to keep up to date on all our crazy adventures!

Righto peeps! We are back with the annual CUTC photo competition. As a club affiliated to the FMC (Federated Mountain Clubs), we can participate in their renowned nationwide FMC photo competition, judged by a panel of award-winning photographers. The winning entries are published in the November issue of FMC’s Backcountry magazine, and there are some pretty sick prizes at stake too. 12-13/03/2022 - Avoca(do) 26-27/02/2022 - FRESHERS!! Aaaaaand we're back! Hope everyone has been having a great summer with lots of stories to tell - and we'd love to hear them! TROG 2021 is still accepting submissions, up to the end of January. Last night was our photo comp prize giving! Go check out the winning entries on our website: https://cutc.nz/photo-competition-2021/ REFRESHERS - JULY 24-25 Well, lockdown kinda sucks, so let's take a look back at some of the rad events and trips this year and get excited to be in the mountains again! MT ARMSTRONG A few weeks ago, CUTC members invaded our local Arthur's Pass National Park with the aim of visiting every hut in 48 hours. Digging up this event from the archives, the 2021 Hut Bagging Challenge involved some serious coordination, a lot of night walking and a well-deserved pint at the end.