Day 7 Route : Roses Hut – Highland Greek Hut Length: 11 km 5h (94 km) Profile : Very steep After the wet day before we had great weather to climb two very steep “hills”. We were greeted after this effort with the best view of our trip so far.

Distance day: 10 km Total distance: 83 km Profile: Very steep, two big climbs, one small one High point: 1265 After saying goodbye to the sandfly paradise (not) we continued to our, until now, most difficult section of the route The route to Macetown consisted of more than 30 crossings

Distance day: 12 km Total distance: 73 km After we realized in the morning that we didn’t follow the Te Araroa but a route along the river that Logan still knew from before, we didn’t let ourselves get carried away and followed the alternative route to Macetown Our breakfast every

Distance day: 12 km Total distance: 50 km After yesterday’s exhausting 10 hour day, the third was a leisurely walk through the woods (~10 km). Sarah’s husband, Tim, picked us up at a parking lot at the end of the trail. Together with our two daughters, Zoe (age 5) and

Distance day: 22 km (38 km) Profile : Grassland, boggy After taking down the tents that were next to the hut where we stopped yesterday, we went straight back to our second adventurer. For breakfast we had tea This was the longest of the three ettapes we walked together with