Te Araroa

Te Araroa means “the long pathway” in Maori. Completed in 2011, it’s a 3000 kilometer trail extending from Cape Reinga in the North to Bluff in the south.

GUEST POST: Meet supergirl harpist-hiker Emily Granger

January 9, 2020 5 comments

Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common. Sarah Dessen I met Emily Granger a bit by accident while nosing around instagram. The minute I saw this accomplished musician who doubles as a hiking fiend, I messaged her that she’s my absolute heroine. She wrote right back to remind me that I’d reviewed her in the Harp Column and we were […]

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To: Mark Weatherall, Chief Executive of the Te Araroa Association

May 18, 2019 16 comments

Kia ora, Mark. Thank you so much for taking the time to talk with me by phone on that cold, blustery and rainy day last March as I holed up in Otautau after an upsetting encounter with an aggressive male tramper. Your calming voice and sensible advice helped me complete the trail in Bluff full of joy and big smiles – a trail I set out to walk four months earlier from Cape Reinga. I […]

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