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Renay Weir
Jan 10, 20233 min read
Day 17: Upper Travers Hut to Blue Lake Hut
18.8km, 8.5 hours. Had a great sleep at upper Travers hut. The sign said 6 hours to Upper Sabine hut. It was another misty low cloud day,...
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Renay Weir
Jan 10, 20234 min read
Day 16 - St Arnaud to Upper Travers Hut: 'A long day'
33km, 9.5 hours Thank goodness for a gentle incline all day and no steep hills or summits. Instead those and the sun were swapped out for...
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Renay Weir
Jan 4, 20233 min read
Day 14: Red Hills Hut to St Arnaud.
I'm showered, I've clean clothes, I've eaten. Eaten a lot. And had one of the best tasting beers of my life. I survived the Richmond...
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Renay Weir
Jan 4, 20234 min read
Day 13: Hunters Hut to Red Hills Hut.
I don't know how I can be continually surprised everyday by the scenery I'm walking through but i am. How we have had 8 days straight of...
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Renay Weir
Jan 4, 20234 min read
Day 12: Mid Wairou Hut to Hunters Hut - The Hunger Games
17.5km, 10.5 hours. I wish I was talking about being hungry when i say today was like the Hunger Games but I'm not. Today was like a...
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Renay Weir
Jan 4, 20234 min read
Day 11: Rintoul Hut to Mid Wairoa Hut - New Years Eve
15kms 7.5 hours Someone's alarm went off at 500am so I guess the day started for me at this time. I had my oats, with milk powder, dried...
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Renay Weir
Jan 4, 20236 min read
Day 10: Slaty Hut to Rintoul Hut - 'the unexpected summit'
What. A. Day. When i say that it either means one of three things. 1. It was exhausting. 2. It was amazing 3. Something crazy happened....
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Renay Weir
Jan 4, 20235 min read
Day 9: Browning's Hut to Slaty Hut. 'the never ending climb'
19.8km - 9.5 hours People ask me why i hike, and it's simply scenes like this... To get to this point it took us 8 hours of nothing but...
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Renay Weir
Jan 4, 20233 min read
Day 8: Middy Hut to Browning's Hut
17.8km - 9.5 hours It's never taken me 9 hours to hike 17km but today it did. It's a telling sign that I was in for a big day when the...
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Renay Weir
Jan 4, 20234 min read
Day 7: Pelorous Bridge to Middy Hut.
31km - 10 hours How long should I wait before I chop off my stupid finger with my pocket knife? All i can say is never break your finger....
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Renay Weir
Jan 4, 20234 min read
Day 6: Havelock to Pelorous Bridge - 'Sticky Tar Day'
Today goes to show i don't have good days everyday. I was so over it today but that was brought on by a 32 degree day, ridiculous by NZ...
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Renay Weir
Dec 25, 20223 min read
Day 5: Christmas Day
We woke to sunshine and greeted everyone with Merry Christmas befor sitting down to a Christmas Breakfast where we all said what a...
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Renay Weir
Dec 25, 20223 min read
Day 4: Why I will always talk to strangers
Cowshed Bay to Davies Bay. An easy 19km today and finally some sunshine but oh the humidity. We had a 600m uphill climb from camp and to...
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Renay Weir
Dec 25, 20222 min read
Day 3: Camp Bay to Cowshed bay
Up at 6 am for breakfast (oats, dried cranberries & nuts) with all the TA hikers, before we hit the track at 8am. Straight uphill climb...
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Renay Weir
Dec 25, 20222 min read
Day 2: Schoolhouse bay to Camp Bay
24 kilometres down! Waking up naturally to the sounds of the waves crashing on the rocks below my tent and the beautiful tunes of the...
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Renay Weir
Dec 25, 20222 min read
Day 1: The start
What a first day! We woke at 5:45am to an email from our ferry that the sailing was delayed an hour. Cool, more time to get ready. We...
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Renay Weir
Dec 25, 20222 min read
Bounce boxes bounced
What a day in Wellington. I knew I didn't have much time but it can down to the wire! By the time I'd got into the city it was 1:30pm. We...
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Renay Weir
Dec 19, 20225 min read
The day before.
It’s a weird feeling, knowing you’re about to begin something you’ve been planning, researching, strategizing, training for, for the...
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Renay Weir
Sep 13, 20222 min read
Te Araroa: The Long Pathway
The overnight hike that lead to hiking a country It was on one of my first overnight tramps in New Zealand in 2015 that I learnt of Te...
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Renay Weir
Sep 12, 20227 min read
10 tips to help save for Thru-hike
Budget. Save. Have no life. Kidding. Well kind of, I'll explain more below. After I had committed in my mind in July 2022 that I was...
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