January 13, 2010
Like most legs of The Big Walk, we’re faced with challenges that require on-the-spot decision making – during the Leg between Clevedon and Hamilton we were faced with a scenario where the students came up with an interesting solution!
After mis-reading our maps we found ourselves on the wrong side of a flood bank that traveled [...]
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January 6, 2010
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January 3, 2010
Spending the night indoors was great. We woke up to some low cloud but nothing too daunting. Despite having no tents to pack away, we jumped out of bed at 0600 to have a look at the Managatawhiri dam just a few hundred yards up the road – the steep hill seemed to wake us [...]
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December 31, 2009
The sun peeked through the pohutakawa trees onto our tents, and NZ1 (at least that was my guess) made its approach to landing from the South East after its 11 hour flight from LAX. I rolled over in my tent and saw that it was 0550hrs. In less than ten minutes Liss would introduce the [...]
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hey remembering this time when I never thought i would look back and laugh, but here I am hahahah but ...