Tramping, Tales, Training and Travails
Nelson/Tasman's Great Taste Trail is a grand 200km biking loop from Nelson, meandering from the CBD along the coast to Motueka, upstream on the Motueka River and back down the Wai-iti and Waimea River plains to the city. All the documentation for it separates it into four quite different sections, but we tackle it as... Continue Reading →
Join me on my epic adventure from 2018 where I tried to traverse this great nation of ours by walking Te Araroa and then cycling Tour Aotearoa! What you'll get: 250 pages of English words Section maps for both the tramping and the bikingPaperback or various eBook formats - MOBI for the Kindle folk, ePub... Continue Reading →
The Remutaka Cycle Trail is the obvious choice for a proper bike excursion before I set off, collecting many of my training routes into one large 115km loop. Brother Dave and I set off from Mums. Dave arrives via a mountainbike route over the Western hills. His bike is built for mountains, with the front and... Continue Reading →
The bags I bought for my bikepacking tour of NZ arrive and I am mad-keen to trial them on an overnight bike ride. With inclement weather and the chance of problems I opt for something light; the Rimutaka Incline. For my tour I have opted for a set of bikepacking bags from Apidura. With my... Continue Reading →
Tour Aotearoa - 3000km of road, bike path, beach and track leading from Cape Reinga to the Bluff. This is what I want to do, going from borrowed-bikes to completing one of the bigger items on proper cyclists' calendars in under four months. New goal decided there's no time to lose. I shove my much... Continue Reading →
Walking Te Araroa was my goal for almost a year, a grand odyssey walking and soaking up the length of my homeland. Those following know my right ankle had other ideas, cutting me down at Paihia, only 250km into the 3000km journey. I made the hard decision to return to Wellington to heal, and I have for many long... Continue Reading →
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