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• Double Happiness - again
  Old Chinese ground re-visited
  

• The Kimpton climb
  Te Araroa guerillas clamber upwards
  

• Onekainga open
  The generosity of farmers
  

• The Motatapu track
  Te Araroa's tough team tramp
  

• The 270-km markup
  DoC integrates 6 tracks into Te Araroa
  

• The Mesopotamia route
  a new linkage in Canterbury
  

• Motatapu glimpses
  First photos from the new track
  

• Long Hilly Track opens
  Te Araroa goes Chinese
  

• Motatapu Track opens
  Rough, tough, high country magic
  

• Tararua routefinders
  The Stalwart Six seek a safer route
  

• Puhoi Lookout
  High above Bohemia
  
• Invercargill - Bluff link
  New track mooted
  

• Two new tracks
  Palmerston North to Levin
  

• Spiritual bullion
  Sir Edmund campfire idea wins silver
  

• Sir Edmund dies
  A good friend of Te Araroa passes
  

• Another Northern Link
  Matapouri Bush Track opens
  

• Whanganui to go
  A new regional trust sets up
  

• Ripped off
  When a sign goes missing - that's temporary
  

• New links in Northland
  Construction teams begin two more projects
  

• Anchor stone
  The Wellington-Porirua link opens
  

• Palmerston North opens new section
  Te Araroa gains another 32 kilometres
  

• $200 x 200 campaign
  Help fund Te Araroa
  

• $3.8 million funding
  The Government funds Te Araroa through DoC estate
  

• Breakthrough - Matapouri to Ngunguru
  Private landowners usher the trail through
  

• Posthole progress
  Palmerston North marks the route south of the city.
  

• Heavy lifting
  Te Araroa and the Air Force meet on a mountain top
  

• Dome track extended
  12 more kilometres in place
  

• Mastery over mud
  Seven schools prefabricate a Waikato mountain boardwalk
  

• Smith's new span
  An old bridge gets another life
  

• Bohemian country
  Work begins on a new track north of Puhoi
  

• An uplift in the north
  ASB Trusts stumps up $100,000 for trail work Cape Reinga to Mercer.
  

• Burtton's Track
  Helen Clark opens the latest 16 km Te Araroa link then walks it.
  

• Hamilton City’s $279,000 track upgrade.
  Te Araroa's track westward from Hamilton is likely to become a daywalk standard path.
  

• Double Happiness at Round Hill
  Te Araroa tracks a forgotten piece of Chinese history in Southland.
  

• Kerikeri River Fever
  Te Araroa construction manager Noel Sandford cuts loose on some newly acquired esplanade reserve
  

• Dome - Tamahunga track readied.
  An 11 km track north of Warkworth is poised to open this summer.
  

• Swing bridge at Te Kuiti
  A new bridge completes a local loop walk, and becomes a staging point for Te Araroa.
  

• Te Araroa activists win awards
  The 12-kilometre Puhinui Stream project in Manukau City, and the 17-kilometre Palmerston North-Shannon track route have both won recognition.
  

• Burtton's Track history project
  The Reed Trust has funded research on a storied seven kilometres of Te Araroa's Manawatu route.
  

• Routefinder's Diary
  Winter closes down track construction, but the route finders work on. Here's the report of Otago's Michael Pullar
  

• Reincarnated !
  Cranes uplift an historic pedestrian bridge, and volunteers prepare to embed it into Te Araroa's Manukau route
  

• Pirongia II
  Te Awamutu College girls do the last week's work on the boardwalk, March 14-18, 2005
  

• Puhinui Stream bridge underway
  Volunteers begin to open Te Araroa's route south of Auckland International Airport.
  

• Pirongia I
  Hamilton Boys High School students then a boys' team from Te Awamutu College begin the Pirongia boardwalk: Feb 21 - March 11 2005.
  

• Schools join the Pirongia Project
  Outdoor education boys from Hamilton Boys High and Te Awamutu College begin work on a major Te Araroa link.
  

• One week in November
  A City Care team puts in a 58-km Te Araroa hiking and biking section in five days.
  

• Manukau City steps up
  The city adopts a plan that will allow its officers to work directly on Te Araroa.
  

• North Shore Coastal Walk
  Hundreds attended the opening of the new urban trail
  

• Urban Te Araroa track opens
  On Sunday November 21, 9 am, at Windsor Reserve Devonport Allison Roe opens the North Shore City Coastal Walk - part of Te Araroa. You're invited.
  

• Tekapo-Twizel trail fast-tracked
  A 12-person gang starts work tomorrow and expects to finish inside 10 days.
  

• Retro-walker
  "AH's country walks . . . sit at a slightly eccentric angle to the NZ tradition." Geoff Chapple reviews a 2004 reprint of A H Reed's 1954 book 'The Four Corners of New Zealand.'
  

• The Twain Track
  A 27-kilometre Te Araroa route across two high country stations gets the nod as part of a sale agreement to Shania Twain and Robert 'Mutt' Lange
  

• Spring 2004 newsletter now available for download
  Spring 2004 newsletter now available for download
  

• North Shore signs up
  North Shore City puts in place a 21-kilometre coastal trail in favour of Te Araroa.
  

• Tracking the Highway
  Te Araroa sidles alongside the $75 million Mercer to Longswamp Fourlaning.
  

• Shania's Songline
  Te Araroa secures a 48-km tramping route across the country and western singer's pastoral leases.
  

• They’re doing our trail here.
  An American tramper arrives in Bluff to complete Te Araroa. A Canadian grabs the same signpost to finish his South Island route. A German hiker is three-quarters done, and the locals too are tramping in the "notional trail."
  

• Mangaokewa Trail open - sort of
  The 15-km Mangaokewa river trail has no destination signage yet - but we need to tramp it in, so we've opened it anyway.
  

• Te Araroa's new blood
  Three new trusts are taking over trail-building in their regions - in Wellington, Waikato and Auckland.
  

• The last picture of Michael Johnson
  Te Araroa tramper Eric Martinot met and photographed English tramper Michael Johnson in the Dart River Valley, March 12, 2004
  

• Bolger opens Rangiriri-Huntly trail
  The Rt Hon Jim Bolger opened a new 12-kilometre section of Te Araroa on March 6, and noted the trail's "symbolic linking"
  

• First map
  The Herekino (Orowhana) Track route description - both maps and text - is now downloadable from the 'Trail Maps' section. It's a first.
  

• Te Araroa Summer Newsletter now available
  Read the inside story of the Queen's Chain. See progress reports on Te Araroa walkers.
  

• The Communal Kingdom
  When you're in New Zealand, you're in New Zealand, as they say, all day long. There's something tangible in the air that you don't find in any other part of the globe. . . essay by Geoff Chapple
  

• Esc reaches western side of Pirongia
  The Endless Step Club has now tramped the Hihikiwi Track down the western side of Pirongia. The women filed their latest report of the walk from Pakiri Beach - Waikato River.
  

• $150,000 of New Year Happpiness
  Funders have granted over $150,000 for Te Araroa track construction in the 2004 year.
  

• ESC steps out
  Three Taranaki women and one male marathoner are testing Te Araroa. The Endless Step Club left Cape Reinga November 24 2003, and will walk for 40 days.
  

• Beware - Blasting
  Explosive experts will blast a 30-metre passage for Te Araroa next Saturday across a bluff above the Mangaokewa River.
  

• Latest Te Araroa Newsletter to download
  The latest Te Araroa Newsletter is now available to read or to download.
  

• Return to the River
  Te Araroa's Rangiriri-Huntly trail - the next leg in our 30-kilometre Waikato riverside trail - is underway.
  

• Tamahunga Trail opens
  At 320 metres altitude, and amidst swirling cloud, Sir Edmund Hillary rode the steep stretches to a new trail opening at the top of Pakiri Hill in a farm trailer yesterday.
  

• Tamahunga Trail - opening soon
  A team from Pakiri has begun work on the Tamahunga Trail.
  

• New Zealand’s First Social Entrepreneur signed up
  The man who is developing a walkway the length of the country has been named New Zealand's first social entrepreneur.
  

• Nigel Cook’s Shelters
  Architect Nigel Cook has designed trail shelters for Te Araroa's 120km "Ocean to Ocean" trail in the Far North.
  
• Regional Round Up: exciting developments on many fronts for Te Araroa
  Far North A 120 km trail from Ahipara, at the southern end of the west coast Ninety Mile Beach and Kerikeri on the east coast, began in March as part of a Conservation Corps programme. The agreed working area for the start of this trail was on an existin
  

• Engineer takes on 10km section of Te Araroa
  John Smith has taken on the job of putting a 10-kilometre walkway up the Puhinui Stream in Manukau City - part of Te Araroa
  

• The Appalachian Trail and us
  What makes long trails tick? Te Araroa Trust has recently published a monograph titled 'Long Trails - Origins, Governance and Volunteer Support'. It examines long trails in the USA, Canada and Britain, and applies the lessons to New Zealand's Te Araroa.
  
• Seafarer helms trail
  Russell and Cassie Pierce live in the Herekino Gorge in the Far North, on a large bush block on regenerating scrub, gumfield plateau and primeval forest. Russell was a seafarer for many years and since coming ashore full time he and Cassie have kept busy
  

• The view from Pakiri Hill
  Te Araroa's latest trail runs from top to bottom of Pakiri Hill - about 2 km between Rodney Road at the top end, and Bathgate Road at the bottom.
  

• Gimme shelter (and long drops)
  The Far North District Council has granted $14,660 to build shelters and long drop loos on Te Araroa's proposed 120-km Ocean to Ocean Trail from Ahipara to Kerikeri.
  

• Mayors adopt Te Araroa
  The Mayors Taskforce for Jobs - launched a year ago to eliminate unemployment in the regions - has put Te Araroa into its strategic plan for 2001-2002.
  

• Ocean to Ocean Trail begins
  The Far North Conservation Corps made a start on the new 'Ocean to Ocean' Trail in Northland, March 19.
  
• Waikato Trail opened
  Sir Edmund Hillary opened an 18-kilometre walking trail on the banks of the Waikato River on December 17, 2000.
  

• The shining stile
  The shining stileCows come and rub their necks on it. The pukekos, the herons, the magpies come and sit on it. When I returned to it this week, a month after the construction team had been through, I saw the birds had bombed the thing - white rimed, blac
  

• Far North Trail Gets Funding
  Te Araroa Trust has received a grant of $20,000 from the Lottery General Millennium SubCommittee for a proposed "Ocean to Ocean" trail in the Far North.
  

• Waikato Trail progress
  Te Araroa Trust wants the New Zealand-long foot trail to be a millennium project.