18.8km, 8.5 hours. Had a great sleep at upper Travers hut. The sign said 6 hours to Upper Sabine hut. It was another misty low cloud day,...

33km, 9.5 hours Thank goodness for a gentle incline all day and no steep hills or summits. Instead those and the sun were swapped out for...

I'm showered, I've clean clothes, I've eaten. Eaten a lot. And had one of the best tasting beers of my life. I survived the Richmond...

I don't know how I can be continually surprised everyday by the scenery I'm walking through but i am. How we have had 8 days straight of...

17.5km, 10.5 hours. I wish I was talking about being hungry when i say today was like the Hunger Games but I'm not. Today was like a...

15kms 7.5 hours Someone's alarm went off at 500am so I guess the day started for me at this time. I had my oats, with milk powder, dried...

What. A. Day. When i say that it either means one of three things. 1. It was exhausting. 2. It was amazing 3. Something crazy happened....

19.8km - 9.5 hours People ask me why i hike, and it's simply scenes like this... To get to this point it took us 8 hours of nothing but...

17.8km - 9.5 hours It's never taken me 9 hours to hike 17km but today it did. It's a telling sign that I was in for a big day when the...

31km - 10 hours How long should I wait before I chop off my stupid finger with my pocket knife? All i can say is never break your finger....

Today goes to show i don't have good days everyday. I was so over it today but that was brought on by a 32 degree day, ridiculous by NZ...

We woke to sunshine and greeted everyone with Merry Christmas befor sitting down to a Christmas Breakfast where we all said what a...

Cowshed Bay to Davies Bay. An easy 19km today and finally some sunshine but oh the humidity. We had a 600m uphill climb from camp and to...

Up at 6 am for breakfast (oats, dried cranberries & nuts) with all the TA hikers, before we hit the track at 8am. Straight uphill climb...

24 kilometres down! Waking up naturally to the sounds of the waves crashing on the rocks below my tent and the beautiful tunes of the...

What a first day! We woke at 5:45am to an email from our ferry that the sailing was delayed an hour. Cool, more time to get ready. We...

What a day in Wellington. I knew I didn't have much time but it can down to the wire! By the time I'd got into the city it was 1:30pm. We...

It’s a weird feeling, knowing you’re about to begin something you’ve been planning, researching, strategizing, training for, for the...

The overnight hike that lead to hiking a country It was on one of my first overnight tramps in New Zealand in 2015 that I learnt of Te...

Budget. Save. Have no life. Kidding. Well kind of, I'll explain more below. After I had committed in my mind in July 2022 that I was...