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GDT Day 5 MacArthur to Field
I had a dry tent this morning, hoorah! It was cold though, despite it being a warmer evening the previous night. I managed to hit the trail in 1h15min after getting up, which believe or not was a record for me on this trip so far. Hopefully I can get it down to an hour.…
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GDT Day 4 Tumbling Creek to McArthur Creek
The tent was soaked again from the rain last night and it was so gross packing it up covered in dirt that got all over me and my hands. Yuck! Then during breakfast a fly flew into my mouth and stung my tongue, ouch! It smarted but thankfully didn’t last long and didn’t swell or…
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GDT Day 3 Floe Lake to Tumbling Creek
In the morning, I had a nice breakfast down by the lake before packing up and heading off. It was sunny and warming up fast, but my tent was soaked again, from the rain sprinkles last night and condensation inside. So day 2 of packing up a wet tent, yuck. The first part of the…
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GDT day 2 Ball Pass Junction to Floe lake
It rained a bit this morning and my weather forecast said it was 5 degrees outside but feeling like 2, plus I only had 11km to do today so it was an easy call to stay cosy in my quilt this morning. Nature called eventually and then my hunger. After packing up a wet tent,…
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GDT 2026 Day 1 Sunshine Village to Ball Pass Junction
I set off from Sunshine village all togged up in my rain gear but the rain soon stopped and with the climbing it got too hot, even though it was a chilly day. I stripped it off and continued on up through meadows strewn with wildflowers until I reached Healy Pass. There were a few…
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GDT day 5
What a day on the great divide. I did not sleep great as I had thought might happen. But all was well in the morning, although it was chilly and there was so much condensation on my tent fly and everything felt damp. I warmed up quickly with a big climb up to a ridge…
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GDT Day 4
It got very windy last night for a few hours, but luckily the tent sites were well protected. I also saw flashes of light, which must have been lightning, but too far away for me to hear the thunder, which I thought strange. As I left the campsite, I bumped into the ranger who checked…
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GDT Day 3
I got up around 7 since I had been awake part of the night and the other GDTers had already set off by the time I got to the cooking area. It was cloudy and chilly and so I kept my rain coat on as I set off. It was back to the road and…
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GDT Day 2
I started the day by heading into town where I got myself a breakfast sandwich and flat white. I spoke to Mom for a few minutes after eating and then walked back to the campsite to finish packing up. When I packed my food, I realised that a bunch of my biodegradable ziplocs had holes…
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Routeburn
Back in Glenorchy, I decided that I would do the Routeburn before heading to Auckland. I hitched to Te Anau, spent a night there and then hitched to the trailhead at the Divide in the morning. My lift to the Divide was a guy who’d spent the summer in Antarctica working for the the Kiwi…
On the Trail with Stella 