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Renay Weir
Feb 19, 20237 min read
Day 58: Invercargill to Bluff - Te Araroa done!
37.5km I did it! 1364 Kilometers hiked from one end of the South Island of New Zealand to the other. Over every single mountain, saddle,...
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Renay Weir
Feb 18, 20235 min read
Day 57: Riverton to Invercargill
35km, 8 hours. 1 day to Bluff!! It's getting harder and harder to get going in the morning. Luckily because we have 27km to walk on the...
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Renay Weir
Feb 17, 20236 min read
Day 56: Martin's Hut to Riverton
31.5km, 9 hours There were moreporks hooting outside most of the night and then at some point it sounded like someone was trying to get...
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Renay Weir
Feb 16, 20235 min read
Day 55: Merrival Hut to Martins Hut: The Longwood Forest
29km, 9 hours The Longwood Forest. the only thing I'd heard about the Longwoods is mud. It almost has these connotations of a forest...
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Renay Weir
Feb 15, 20234 min read
Day 54: Birchwood Station to Merrivale Hut
32km, 8 hours. Am uneventful day but my body is feeling tired after 8 weeks so I guess that's alright. As the 5 of us set off from the...
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Renay Weir
Feb 15, 20235 min read
Day 53: Telford camp to Birchwood Station
32km 9.5 hours or what seemed like eternity. This was a great day but it also turned out like we were trapped in a labyrinth of sheep and...
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Renay Weir
Feb 15, 20235 min read
Day 52: Aparima Hut to Telford Camp site
27.3km 9 hours Let's start with my greatest achievement today. Taking the DOC timing guidelines for the day it should have taken 14-15...
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Renay Weir
Feb 15, 20235 min read
Day 51: wild camp to Aparima Hut
38km 11.5 hours A long day but one of the best. Minus the first 12km of gravel road walking we had to do. We woke early around 6am but...
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Renay Weir
Feb 15, 20233 min read
Day 50: Mavora camp to wild camping somewhere
32.5km, 8 hours Day fifty. Can I laugh and also congratulate myself. Minus 4 rest days so technically over 46 days I've walked 1120...
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Renay Weir
Feb 15, 20235 min read
Day 49: Greenstone Hut to Mavora Lakes campsite
41.5km, 10 hours. It felt like the day to have a long day. There were a few hut options today one at 10km, one at 20km, one at 30km and a...
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Renay Weir
Feb 15, 20235 min read
Day 48: Queenstown - Greenstone Hut
80km hitchhike, 12.5km, 3hours It's blowing me away every time I write what day it is. How am I at 48?! It doesn't feel like that at all!...
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Renay Weir
Feb 15, 20234 min read
Days 46-47 Queenstown
Two hole zero days. Oh a rest day! I could cry with happiness. Not even one rest day, two! Saturday meant sleeping in, going out for...
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Renay Weir
Feb 15, 20233 min read
Day 45: Arrowtown to Queenstown
25km, 5 hours. It's that same old story, we are one days walk away from a rest day, two in fact! That means one, motivation to walk is...
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Renay Weir
Feb 15, 20234 min read
Day 44: Roses Hut to Arrowtown
26km, 8hrs Well today outdid itself. When I thought it wasn't possible to sweat any more than I did yesterday, within the first 10minutes...
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Renay Weir
Feb 14, 20237 min read
Day 43: Fern Bern Hut to Roses Hut
16.6km 8.5 hours It was short kilometres today but not short on elevation. I had 1644m in elevation to climb over three summits....
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Renay Weir
Feb 12, 20234 min read
Day 42: Wanaka to Fern Bern Hut (Motatapu track)
26km 7 hours. I'm back! Today I felt the best I've felt hiking in over a week. The rest day in Wanaka was exactly what I needed. It was a...
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Renay Weir
Feb 12, 20234 min read
Day 41: Wanaka - Zero Day
0.00km, 24 hours! I have never more looked forward to a day off than this one. It had been three weeks since my last day off in Hanmer...
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Renay Weir
Feb 12, 20235 min read
Day 38: Ahuriri River to Top Timaru Hur
26km, 8 hours I went to sleep last night listening to the rocks slide down the cliffs a hundred or so metres from where we're camping. At...
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Renay Weir
Feb 12, 20233 min read
Day 40: Brest Hill Camp to Lake Hawea - Wanaka
15km, 3.5 hours. Thankfully sunrise was at 630am so we didn't have to get up too early and we could just watch it from the warmth of our...
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Renay Weir
Feb 12, 20236 min read
Day 39: Top Timaru Hut to Brest Hill free camp
25km, 8 hours This will go down as one of my favourite days on the TA or at very least a main highlight. It had a bit of everything again...
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