Category: The Great Walks
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The Routeburn
November 6th we headed to Queenstown to run the last of our 8 Great Walks. One bloke down due to a knee operation (showing our age) ! We were joined by our wonderful wives to celebrate and have a magic weekend away. Due to the large distance between the 2 ends of the track we…
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Heaphy Track
June 6th we ventured on to the longest of the Great Walks 79km! The Heaphy Track is a popular tramping track in the north west of the South Island of New Zealand. It is located within the Kahurangi National Park and classified as one of New Zealand’s nine Great Walks by the Department of Conservation.…
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Milford Track
April 2015 we headed to Te Anau to run the Milford Track. We had a fun side trip to Highland Motor Sport park, wow what a facility. Andrew smoked us on the first round of the Go Karts with Anthony getting revenge the second time round. Anthony aka Whippet sorted out a great pad Birchwood Cottages,…
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Tongariro Northern Circuit
On Saturday we set out on the fifth of our Great Walk Adventures. We headed up to Ohakune on Friday night and woke to a beautiful clear day. So beautiful that we couldn’t resist adding climbing Ngauruhoe along the way. Check out the video’s, awesome adventure! http://www.strava.com/activities/214068539 Wiki The Tongariro Northern Circuit, one of the New…
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Rakiura Great Walk
We headed to Stewart Island via Invercargill, had a short visit to the velodrome before flying the strait in a tiny leaky plane. We spent the afternoon on Ulva Island which is amazing, a must visit. The next day we ran the Rakiura Great Walk, we stayed at the South Sea Hotel and run from there to…
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Abel Tasman Coastal Walk
The boys headed out on the third of our Great Walk Adventures into the beautiful Abel Tasman Coastal Walk We were kindly put up by David and Trish and treated to some fine hospitality, thank you! We started out from Marahua and were picked up from Wainui in the North and driven back to our…
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Abel Tasman GPS
Check out my 50.8 km Run on Strava: http://app.strava.com/activities/153247816
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KEPLER TRACK
Last weekend we headed down to Te Anau to run the Kepler. We arrived into Qtown and had to hold Wippet Anthony Edmond’s back from his favorite bike trail Grundy! We had a pie and got a few supplies for our big day on the Kepler. After a lazy beautiful afternoon in Te Anau we…
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LAKE WAIKAREMOANA
In October we headed up to Lake Waikaremona. We arrived to our accommodation to find the recent storm had cut power to the area, so we had a quiet beer in the dark hoping the storm would clear for the morning. Four of us headed out on the track from the Panekire Bluff end, two…