Route : North Mavora Lake Distance day: 16 km Total distance: 16 km Profile : Mostly flat On the first day, Logan and I had his parents take us to North Mavora Lake. On the way there we picked up Sarah, an old friend of Logan Logan’s parents wished us good luck and then set…

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 Sarah First we walked for…

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 Eve (age 3) we then…

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 day so far consisted of…

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 of an area river (in…