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Te Araroa part 5 – Arthur’s Pass to Twizel
This section covers the middle of the Canterbury region. Day 30: Arthur’s Pass to Hamilton Hut 32km, +800m – 600m, 10 hours We got ready in the kitchen so as not to disturb the girls but t... Read More
Te Araroa part 4 – Boyle to Arthur’s Pass
This section covers Lake Sumner Conservation Park and the top of Arthur’s Pass National Park. Day 25: Boyle to Hope Kiwi Lodge 27km, +200m -200m, 7.5 hours Ali and Liv had managed to source a ta... Read More
Te Araroa part 3 – St Arnaud to Boyle
This section covers the Nelson Lakes national park. Day 17: St Arnaud to Lakehead Hut 11km, <100m, 2.75 hours With only 11km on pretty flat ground to cover, I had a lie in at the hostel and l... Read More
Te Araroa part 2 – Havelock to St Arnaud
This section covers the Richmond Ranges (and the Kaikoura interlude). I’ve added some rough ascent and descent to the distance and time (hut to hut times). I had a gloriously sunny couple of day... Read More
Te Araroa part 1 – Wellington to Havelock
It begins! This section covers my faffing around in Wellington and the Queen Charlotte Track. Things that I arranged a few weeks before arriving in New Zealand: Hostel in Wellington Ferry to Picton H... Read More
Te Araroa Gear List
Here is my final* gear list of what I’m taking to New Zealand to hike the South Island section of the Te Araroa. My base weight (total of that in the table below, minus what I’ll be wearin... Read More
2017 in review
Like last year, I want to reflect on things I’ve done in the past 12 months that have made me feel happy/alive. I also want to look at the 7×2017 goals I set myself (spoiler: I didn’t... Read More
South Downs Way: Amberley to Eastbourne
“So, why did you want to go walking at this time of year?” I was on my third train of the morning, 2 hours behind schedule due to delays and cancellations, and the man in the seat opposite... Read More
Getting home, the slow way
I stayed the night at a friend’s house in Bicester, and as I didn’t have plans for the next day, and the forecast was decent, I’d try walking back to Oxford. ‘Try’ as the... Read More
The lowlands and the Highlands
I had four days at the end of August to play with, and decided I wanted to be up a mountain on my birthday. I’d wanted to go to Scotland for a while – I would most likely get swamped by mi... Read More
The Poor Student 200km audax
In some end of 2016 festivities with the wonderful Broken Spoke Team Beryl folk, someone mentioned their intention to go on a ride in early January. This ride would be 200km long, in a triangle starti... Read More
Attitude of adventure
I’m of a generation that was raised being told we can do anything, but instead heard we had to be everything. We needed degrees to ‘succeed’ but were thrust from education into a rec... Read More
How to cycle to a wedding
A friend was getting married in Marlborough and I’d started looking at how to get there (remember, no car). Public transport would involve a laborious amount of buses and trains, and I thought I... Read More
Planning for Te Araroa
Last weekend I booked my flights to New Zealand for the beginning of January, with a return flight at the end of March. It now feels much more real! Work gave me the go-ahead for 3 months extended lea... Read More- 2 of 4
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