OTMC president Antony Pettinger said he wanted to do something that would last a bit longer than the two-day celebration the club had for its 90th anniversary a decade ago.
"When you think back to the 90th, it was a good celebration, but it was all over in two days, and there was a lot of work that went into it, so we thought how can we do something that lasts longer?
"I thought ‘100 trips for 100 years’ sounded good and we started talking about it and worked out we could do it."
The club had completed over 7000 trips since forming in 1923, out of which Mr Pettinger chose 100 for the centenary celebration.
Mr Pettinger said a reason for the 100 trips was to try to share a sense of history about why the club did the trips in the first place.
"Of those 7000 trips, 700 have been to the Silver Peaks, which is our highest number of any area ...
We did trips there for all sorts of things: bush-craft courses, socials, day trips, weekend trips, marathons."
The final trip of the 100 will be in the Silver Peaks in October and about 90 people have already registered their interest for it.
Another significant trip in the catalogue will be one to Pineapple Point on September 1.
"When they talked about going to Pineapple Point in 1923 they said they’d come up through the Ross Creek bush track because the Pineapple Track wasn’t there then.
"They would stop to eat pineapple there and our first president was the one who used to hang the pineapple tins on the fence."
He said that was where the Pineapple Track got its name.
"We’re going to put a proper seat and a sign there and I think it’s going to be a popular lookout point because it’s a long way to the top of Flagstaff from the Ross Creek side."
The 100 trips had captured a lot of people’s attention and they had come out and supported the club after a slow period during Covid-19.
"We were going OK up until Covid and then Covid sort of slowed the club down as it did with everything and we had been rebuilding quite slowly.
"But since the 100 trips has started our average number per trips has gone double to maybe even triple in some cases.
"We were averaging seven people per trip, but now we’re averaging 12 to 13."
So far, the club has not faced any significant challenges 61 trips into the 100.
"The good thing is all trips have gone ahead so far. Normally, some trips get cancelled because of weather.
"A couple of days we’ve gone out when you wouldn’t go out normally, but we didn’t want to lose that momentum.
"Everything’s gone well and we haven’t lost anyone."
