Day trippers should be weather-wise on Central North Island treks, Ceana Priest reports. ——————– Unprepared day trampers are in increasing danger of being caught out on New Zealand’s most accessible alpine trek as winter approaches, authorities warn. Last month, there was a dramatic night rescue of a group of unprepared trampers on the Tongariro Crossing. [...]

from http://egtravels.blogspot.com/  Seven hours. The cold blue sky, touching down, presses against us. Us making slow progress against the vertical thrust of a mountain side. Caught between the blue infinity and a land mass escaping from Hades. A sense of crushing freedom. Seven hours of being reminded of the forces buried deep below. City life, [...]

In Taumarunui. The te araroa track kind of falls apart here. After discussion with the outdoor store people and info centre I have opted for the river option, skipping the tongariro crossing (which I have done before) and a lot of east-west traversing. Instead I’ll be floating downstream for 5 days and then another 3 [...]

Reproduced – an article by Brenda Ann Burke Te Araroa is a walking path that will provide access to Aotearoa’s history and natural heritage from the top of the North to the bottom of the South Island. The ambition to establish, by 2010, a hiking trail from the northern to the southern tip of New [...]

The Tongariro Crossing is rated as the best one day trek in New Zealand and listed by many in the top 10 day treks in the world. Big raps! But like many movies I watch, what the critics give 5 stars too, I don’t rate and vice versa. So my question to you is simply [...]

On the hop today so can’t spend time with you all – but I read with interest two articles this morning while turfing down the toast – and both talked to Tongarario Crossing being one of the worlds greatest (or something like that). Bloody great I say. The more people that read that and get [...]

I thought I had. In fact I was sure I had been there. I checked the AA map and sure enough there it was – nestled on the East Cape – I had stopped in for a coke many years ago as I toured in that area on my bike. But Te Araroa – The [...]