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High School Skills
Te Kauwhata year-12 students recently set out to beat the swamp on the Meremere-Te Kauwhata Pumping Station section of Te Araroa’s Waikato River Trail.
Read moreAdvisory: Red Hills Hut demolition
The Department of Conservation will demolish the old Red Hills Hut on October 5. The hut is on Te Araroa's route across the South Island's Richmond Range.
Read moreFMC jolt to TA's Tararua route
The Federated Mountain Clubs executive has opposed Te Araroa’s proposed route through the Tararuas. Previously, just four Wellington-region tramping clubs and 20 individuals had formally opposed the route.
Read moreThe Tararuas
Submissions on the proposed Te Araroa route along Oriwa Ridge in the Tararuas have now closed.
Death of a long distance walker
Tom Stone at Silverdale, north of Auckland, March 1999
by Geoff Chapple
Trails deliver interesting oddments. My shelf collection includes a No.
A walk in the park
The newly opened walking and cycling track through Millbrook Resort to Lake Hayes is 3 km long and so gentle it’s traversed by kids on bicycles.
Read moreThe Whangamarino Track
The new Whangamarino Track heads directly from Mercer south to the old Te Teoteo Pa.
Read moreA track runs through it
It’s South Island high country. It’s South Island history. And now a track runs through it.
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