Victoria Club Tread

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Club Tread Victoria is a hiking club that has been established in Victoria for over 30 years. We are a registered Society. We use Meetup to schedule our hikes and other events. Our day-hiking and walking events on the South Island run year round. In the winter months we also have snowshoeing as weather permits. From April to October you can expect hiking, and cycling events in the Cowichan Valley, the Gulf Islands and the San Juan Islands along with weekend and multi-day trips further afield. 
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Membership
The club is open to new members.
You can become a guest member of Club Tread by joining on this Meetup site. A newcomer is permitted to join the Club and pay the annual fee after participating in one event. Once the membership fees are paid, they can participate in Paid-up Members only events.

PLEASE NOTE THAT SOME HIKES AND ACTIVITIES MAY BE LIMITED TO PAID UP MEMBERS OF CLUB TREAD. GUEST MEMBERS WHO HAVE ONLY SIGNED UP ON MEETUP ARE NOT ELIGIBLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THOSE ACTIVITIES.

To become a fully paid Club Tread member, after completing at least one event you can join here (or go to our website and click on "Join VCT")

Please note: After 12 months of event inactivity your name will be removed from the Victoria Club Tread Meetup group automatically.
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COVID-19 Policies
Club Tread is once again offering activities within the current COVID-19 guidelines. Trip leaders will continue to have discretion on size of groups.

The rules and guidelines in our standard Club Tread waiver apply and we ask you to respect the rules laid out in our documents. Let’s be safe and enjoy the outdoors.
Club Tread Documents
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Victoria Club Tread Day Hike Rating System
The following legend describes the criteria we use for rating our day hikes. We also have developed rating systems for cycle touring and walks. Other activities are not rated. Day hikes are rated using three factors, distance, elevation gain and trail conditions The trail conditions are for when the trail is in good condition, weather and other variable factors are not taken into account.
Rating Description
* 1 Boot: Easy hike. Suitable for most people. Typically: easy climbs (100m), easy grades, short distances, (less than 5 km), good trail conditions, 1 ­ 3 hours hiking.
* 2 Boot: Average hike. Suitable for most hikers. Typically: moderate climbs (up to 400m), moderate grades, moderate distances (up to 10 km), average trail conditions, 2 ­ 5 hours hiking.
* 3 Boot: Intermediate hike. Suitable for fitter hikers. Typically: harder climbs (up to 600m), steeper grades, longer distances (up to 15 km), rugged trail conditions.
*  4 Boot: Strenuous hike. For the more adventurous. May contain: steep, high climbs, long distances, or poor trail conditions.
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Leaders of a VCT event will not be following Meetup+ priority status on Waitlists.  Those on a VCT event Waitlist will be moved to the “going list” based on First-Come-First-Served (by date/time a member joined the waitlist)