Tag: Zealand’s

New Zealand’s lost Great Walk?

Regan gave Whirinaki Te Pua-ā-Tāne Conservation Park a rave review. He does this for most backcountry places, yet it was enough to get me to set my sights on the 54,000 hectare park. With the final results from the general election still pending I managed to convince Hugh to join me for one last a...

Watching An Avalanche Come Off a Mountain While Hiking Near New Zealand’s Tallest

We watched a piece of ice break off the mountain ahead and then crash down into the valley throwing up a lot of snow spraying through the air like dust. And only then, the sound of the avalanche reached us. It was amazing to realize how ‘slow’ sound travels. We arrived the day before ...