Haven't been on here for a while as I've been out hiking again. They call it "tramping" down in Kiwi-land and it's great. They have 10 of what they call "Great Walks" and if you hike one of those, you can bet it's gonna be nice and maintained properly (although they are the crowded ones of course)

I finally got around to writing it up, complete with lots of pictures and it's quite long, over 5,000 words this time.
Each trail we hiked was between 60 and 80 kms long. We did 4 of them.

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