January 16, 2010
Travelling through National Park for three days has been fantastic. There have been very few times in the North Island where we have had the luxury of seeing the support vehicles each evening, so the number of ’multi-day’ tramps has been pretty low (unlike the hardy South Island crew).
With us being in the area, it would have been [...]
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January 15, 2010
Having showered off five days of dirt and sweat I sit in front of a computer screen and try a sum up the experience we sweated and dirtied our selves for. It would be easy to list the words and sound-bites of the last few days, however, they would mean nothing to any but my [...]
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January 11, 2010
I’m not entirely sure if the weather knew what it wanted to do today, so it just picked a little bit of everything it had in its repertoire and threw it at us. The wind, rain, and sun came in patches, combinations or even all three at once but North Island Leg 11 took our ‘hard-pills’ [...]
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January 10, 2010
The start of a new leg is always a challenge, meeting new people and getting to know the way The Big Walk works is the toughest part of the journey and today was no exception. This leg started with some goodbyes, first to our last lot of students, second to our instructor Liss who is [...]
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You are looking very slender Jamie!!You guys are doing an awesome job covering the miles. Keep it up youre ...