Category: Life Skills

Mission Accomplished. We’ve Done It! Te Araroa Trail, North Island.  Cape Reinga to Wellington, NZ

April 5, 2017

We’ve done it! We’ve walked Te Araroa North Island from Cape Reinga to Wellington reaching the TA marker at Island Bay, on John’s 66th birthday, 26 March 2017.  An appropriate day to finish, we thought. 1701kms according to our maps.me app. Our mission of walking the North Island completed not with speed (80 days walking on … More Mission Accomplished. We’ve Done It! Te Araroa Trail, North Island.  Cape Reinga to Wellington, NZ

‘Tough Mudder’ Tame In Comparison to Northland’s Rainforests, Te Araroa Trail, NZ

December 24, 2016

Arduous, Unrelenting, Challenging Tramping Herekino Forest, Raetea Forest, Omahuta Forest, Pukatea Ridge Track to Puketi Forest over five days was demanding in terrain, in attention to each footstep and in condition. Kilometres of climbing and descending summits, kilometres of tramping (slippery and sucking at your boots) muddy trails, kilometres of clambering up and over treacherous … More ‘Tough Mudder’ Tame In Comparison to Northland’s Rainforests, Te Araroa Trail, NZ