Category: Hiking
Putting one foot in front of the other
Te Araroa part 6 – Twizel to Wanaka
This section covers the end of the Canterbury region and the start of the Otago region. Day 41: Twizel to Ohau 30km, +150m -100m, 7 hours We couldn’t get in to our lodge until 3pm and the fronta... Read More
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
January 2018 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... Read More
Te Araroa Gear List
Here is my gear list of what I’m taking to New Zealand to hike the South Island section of Te Araroa in 2018. My base weight (total of that in the table below, minus what I’ll be wearing, ... Read More
South Downs Way: Amberley to Eastbourne
November 2017 “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... Read More
The lowlands and the Highlands
August 2017 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 s... 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
Wild Welsh Weekend
May 2017 A week before I realised I had no plans for the upcoming May bank holiday weekend. The weather looked pretty decent (I laugh as I write this in hindsight) and my usual hiking friends were una... Read More
Walking the Coast to Coast – day by day
April 2017 You can see my preparation and my gear list, and watch the film I made. This is a day-by-day account of the hike with info for those thinking of doing the route. If you are, do it, it’... Read More
Thoughts on the Coast to Coast
April 2017 You can see what the Coast to Coast trail was like from my little film, this is for some thoughts about the walk as a whole. Schedule My original schedule was to do the walk over 14 days, p... Read More
Coast to Coast video
April 2017 Happy with the outcome of filming snippets of the walk for the Alpine Pass Route and stitching them together to make an overview clip, I did the same for the Coast to Coast. Shot on a GoPro... Read More- 2 of 3
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