Walking New Zealand 182

NEW ZEALAND’S RECREATION WALKING MAGAZINE

Great Walks

ISSUE No 182 - 2013

The Heaphy Track

MARCH

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CONTENTS Issue No 182 - 2013

4 Walk Talk 6 Great Walks: The Heaphy Track 10 Event: New walks planned in walking festival 11 Event: ECHO W alking F estival Walking Festival 12 Overseas Walks: County Clares ‘Eden ‘Eden’’ - a walkers paradise 12 Overseas Walks: Sidetracks Germany 14 Te Araroa Trail: Wilderness run for P roject Project Crimson 15 New Zealand Walks: Exploring Egmont National Park and Mt T aranaki Taranaki 16 New Zealand Walks: Lak e Hood T rail ake Trail 18 Digital Photo Contest winners 20 Event: Go one step beyond this April - Great Barrier Island W alking F estival Walking Festival 23 Te Araroa Trail: The power of walking 24 Event: High Country Musterers W alk Walk 26 New Zealand Walk: Behind the scenes on the Banks Peninsula T rack Track 30 Overseas Walks: The giants of Girraween 34 Event: Sea, Sky and Bush event so much more than a walk 35 Podiatry: In toeing and out toeing in children 36 Overseas walks and tours 37 Overseas walks and tours 38 New Zealand Walks: Exploring the Bay of Island’s Kauri Ridge 40 Window on Waitakere: Joining the dots 40 Health: Strong feet by running barefoot in childhood 42 Long Walk: W alking the W orld Walking World 44 New Zealand coming events 48 Overseas coming events 50 Contents for previous 14 issues 51 Weather forecast for March 52 Directory: Walking groups throughout NZ 56 Country Breaks 60 High Country Musterers Walk

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WALKING New Zealand Published Monthly PUBLISHER/EDITOR: Frank Goldingham: Phone 06-358-6863 CONTRIBUTORS: Ken Ring, Gary Moller, Kay Lindley, Rachel Carle, Gary Hauseman, Herb Christophers, Andrew Healey, Miriam Beatson, Jenness Reeve, Hugh Wilson, and Alex and Jenny Davies ADVERTISING MANAGER: Michelle Smith 06-358-5088, 021-707-015 Email:michelle@walkingnewzealand.co.nz COMING EVENTS ADVERTISING: Frank Goldingham 0800-walking (925-546) Email walkingnz@xtra.co.nz SUBSCRIPTIONS:phone 0800-925-546 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: New Zealand Residents; 24 issues $132.50 posted, 12 issues $69.50 posted 6 issues $41.40 posted Australia: 12 issues: $130.00 Rest of World: $170.00 NEWSAGENT DISTRIBUTION: Gordon & Gotch (NZ Ltd WALKING NEW ZEALAND LTD, P O Box 1922, Palmerston North Telephone 06-358-6863 - Fax 06-358-6864 E-Mail: walkingnz@xtra.co.nz Website: www.walkingnewzealand.co.nz The information and views expressed by contributors are not necessarily agreed to by the editor or publisher, and while every effort will be made to ensure accuracy, no responsibility will be taken by the editor or publisher for inaccurate information.

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Walk talk Fitness run pays big dividends for Westmere woman

Westmere’s Lisa Ottaway got a lot more than she bargained for when she took part in the Sculpt Women’s 6k fitness event at Britomart in November last year.

After completing the course with up to 3000 other women, Lisa’s name was randomly drawn from all those who entered the race. She was thrilled to win the keys to a shiny new Mazda2.

“I was so shocked and surprised when I heard my number read out and I couldn’t believe I had won a Mazda2. It is the first time in my life I have won something as big as this and it feels fantastic,” says Lisa.

Glenn Harris, General Manager, Vehicle Sales & Marketing for Mazda New Zealand, says he was pleased to be able to give Lisa the keys to the Mazda2.

“This is the second year we have supported the Sculpt 6k event and it is growing in popularity. We look forward to being involved again this year and giving another lucky participant like Lisa the chance to win a great Mazda vehicle.”

21st year for challenge Te Houtaewa Challenge has been running for over 21 years, and is one of the most challenging beach races in New Zealand, so in 2012 they added a Cycle Challenge with all the components of the Classic Run, this proved to be winner, so they are back for 2013.

The Te Houtaewa Cycle Challenge, will be held on 90 Mile Beach, Aupouri Penin-sulaon 23 March 2013.

All cycle events will start two hours after our runners and there will be 3 options – Ultra Marathon 63km, Marathon 42km or the Half Marathon.

See website for more details: www.tehoutaewa.co.nz.

Five summer walks

Above: Summer walk. Photo: Tim Weston.

Taranaki DOC offers five walks in the popular summer walk programme and the New Plymouth Tramping Club is helping us out with two - the Kapuni walk and the Pouakai Puffer.

You need to register for three of the walks and you do this through the New Plymouth District Council, 06 759 6060.

A list of all the walks can be found in the Council’s Guided Walks booklet.

stream about 40 minutes from the car park, just past the deviation on the Kaiauai Track.

And just before the shelter a swing bridge will cross the Kaiauai Stream.

Summit climbers will stay dry in the new loo too near Tahurangi Lodge. The last one was showing signs of wear. At times it was wetter in than out!

Above: Engineer Frank Kerslake checks out the site for the new bridge. Photo Tim Weston.

Left: The new loo near Tahurangi Lodge.

Discover your inner camper this summer The Department of Conservation (DOC) has much to offer city dwellers and families looking for some rest and relaxation this summer.

If you a ‘Glamper’, ‘Family Camper’ or more the ‘Wilderness Wanderer, whatever your style, there are ample DOC campsites.

There is something to suit everyone’s taste and desire to explore the outdoors says Gisborne Whakatane Area Programme Manager, Visitor and Historic Assets, Awhina White.

“The more experienced camper (wilderness wanderer) might enjoy the standard campsites at Anaura Bay, Manganuku and Omahuru (Ogilvies) or if you are a family camper the Matata campsite (off SH2 in Matata township)” says Ms White.

There is a variety of recreational activities from gentle bush walks to challenging tramps into the remote wilderness.Visitors passing through Tolaga Bay (near Gisborne) looking to stretch their legs on the Cooks Cove Walkway can view new information panels at key locations on the walkway.

“While you are out enjoying the glorious weather, don’t forget the fire risk which has reached very high levels. Most fires start in nearby access ways and areas such as roads, river beds, tracks and campsites” says Ms White.

Fire permits are required for fires on or within 1km of all public conservation land in the East Coast and Bay of Plenty regions.

Please also be a careful camper and practice ‘no trace’ camping.

“We hope that visitors will discover or reconnect with DOC campsites and recreational activities, and leave with some special summer holiday memories” says Ms White.

Full details on walkways and campsites are available at the local DOC office or website www.doc.govt.nz and information on outdoor safety on the website www.adventuresmart.org.nz.

Correction

Big shed, no wood

On pages 26 and 28 of issue 181 the correct spelling of the name of the area in Tasmania should have read Tarkine, not Takine.

With a new boardwalk along the Mangorei Track in Taranaki, the Pouakai Hut has become a popular place.

It’s attracting plenty of visitors which is great but the firewood is disappearing a tad quicker than it should be.

It’s best to avoid stoking up the burner during the day and then cooking on it. You need that wood to keep you warm on bitterly cold nights.

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Sponsored walks over new path projects The South West Coast Path Association in the UK is hoping to raise over £250,000 through a month long series of sponsored walks next April, for over 50 improvement projects around the entire path. The event will entail 56 legs covering all of the Coast Path.

There are lots of ways to take part, from a half day’s walk to basing a walking holiday around the campaign. Culminating with a party at Land’s End on 7th May 2013, the south coast series starts at Poole on 3rd April, with the north coast series starting at Minehead on 16th April.

Each leg will be guided by local experts, rangers and path wardens.

Walkers will be asked to raise £50 of sponsorship each, with further funding being generated from other organisations via matched giving. www.greatsouthwestwalk.co.uk.

The photo above is of Saunton Sands on Christmas Eve. Photo by Chris

foot in a nine day Walking Festival with 58 walks.

You can discover the pretty Derbyshire village of Ashover, search out the Florence Nightingale connection at Pleasley Pit Country Park, explore beautiful bluebell woods as you walk through the Linacre Valley or take in some history as you walk from the famous Crooked Spire Church in Chesterfield to the English Heritage owned Bolsover Castle.

Full programme at www.chesterfieldwalking festival.co.uk.

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New staircase on Fanthams Peak Track The power of snow… and doughnuts in Taranaki.

Heavy winter snow put a few unwanted bends in the old structure on the Fanthams Peak Track but a new staircase has been built and strengthened by Mike Johns, Visitor Assets Ranger.

The snow hasn’t a chance. For a burst of energy Mike ate one last doughnut before final strengthening work!

Left: Mike Johns on the new staircase. Photo Tim Weston

Walk For All Festivals caters for all The Walk For All Festivals allow walkers, no matter what their capabilities, to take on tough treks around some of the most beautiful areas in the English countryside. While each walk has a number of partner charities, including the Jane Tomlinson Appeal, participants can fundraise for any charity of their choice.

The Peak District Walk in the Hope Valley takes in the area's most striking scenery, including Win Hill Pike and Edale, with a choice of three varied routes and terrains that are suitable for all abilities.

In the Yorkshire Dales the three walks offer a range of breath-taking views across the Dales. While in the Lake District the festival is a spectacular showcase of Lake Windermere with three challenging walks around the classic, countryside home of Beatrix Potter. www.walkforall.com

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The Heaphy Track

By Herb Christophers Department of Conservation

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he Heaphy track connects the Aorere Valley in Golden Bay with Karamea on the West Coast of the South Island.

Of all the Great Walks, the Heaphy Track delivers the greatest contrasts of scenery, vegetation and wildlife - Beech forests, open tussock basins, limestone formations, ancient rain forests and palm trees on the rugged West Coast surf beaches.

Getting from Nelson to the start of the Heaphy track can be an adventure in itself.

The drive over the spectacular Täkaka Hill into Golden Bay takes you into a more laid back lifestyle. In a landscape dominated by stunning scenery, it’s hardly surprising that people, who have an affinity with the land, have

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Opposite page: James Mackay Hut. Above left: This weka is not shy.

Above right: Trampers pause and take in the views.

chosen to live in such an isolated tranquil rural community.

The Heaphy track winds its way through Kahurangi National Park in the North West part of the South Island. This geological wonderland is characterised by caves, bluffs, natural arches, sinkholes and water-worn outcrops where the uplifted sedimentary rock has been weathered and scoured over many centuries, the limestone and marble features contain the largest cave system in New Zealand Along the 82 kilometre track through Kahurangi National Park, there are seven DOC huts and three shelters, five of which have gas-cooking facilities.

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A couple of the huts, Browns Hut at the Collingwood end of the track and Gouland Downs Hut, do not have cooking facilities, so it pays to carry a cooker if you plan to stay there.

For a four day, three night trip, most walkers stay at Perry Saddle, James Mackay and Heaphy Huts.

The Heaphy is not a track that has been set up recently by DOC purely for recreation.

Right: Bright red seeds on a nikau palm.

Below: Approaching Gouland Downs Hut.

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The Heaphy Track

Above: A great spotted kiwi.

In a past life, the route was used for hundreds of years by Maori as a way to the sources of pounamu (greenstone) on the West Coast. The current track was first cut in the 1860s by gold prospectors to connect the Collingwood and West Coast goldfields. The tempting prospect of a road through seems to have faded long ago and I think the locals prefer it that way.

The Heaphy is one of those walks where the vegetation and wildlife reminds you of how New Zealand must have been when humans first came here. At night, you can hear great spotted kiwi calling. The trilling whistle is sadly

Above: A Powelliphanta snail.

heard less frequently elsewhere in the South Island but, where pest management is undertaken, the kiwi are holding their own.

Another ubiquitous native is the morepork that plies its trade at night catching insects on the wing. You can hear their start up calls in the early evening and if you are a light sleeper, the voice that gives them their Maori name can be heard constantly until dawn – ruru. If you are lucky, you may even see one but you’ll never hear one flying - stealth technology is not new!

Kaka in the bush and their alpine cousin, the kea are here too. The cacophony of native parrots is a sound that we should all revere and the Heaphy is a place where wildlife has a chance to persist unlike much of New Zealand.

At the right time of year, the rata is in bloom – early to mid summer and the kaka will be feeding in the forest canopy, competing with bellbirds and tui for the sweet nectar on offer. But wait a minute, it s not all up in the sky or in the trees.

Look around on the ground. Native giant snails - Carnivorous and spectacular can be seen slipping through the mossy undergrowth seeking out worms and small invertebrates to add to their menu. They have to hide otherwise they might be on the menu of a flightless weka that will curiously seek out human company to take advantage of our ‘messy’ eating habits.

It pays not to feed the wildlife.

The forests that support this wide range of animal life is also varied. The drier beech forests give way to higher altitude tussock and the wetter West Coast side is the home to ancient giant trees like rimu and kahikatea that were sought after in earlier times for their

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Above: The trunk of a nikau palm.

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The Heaphy track puts the ‘Great’ into Great Walk but it is also on trial as a mountain biking track during the winter from May through to September. If the trial is successful, it will become a permanent winter feature for the track. Winter riding is determined by the fickle weather and not surprisingly, it’s often wet. Some of the steeper sections means that the route is definitely for the better riders – Grade 4 on a scale of 1- 6. The technical aspects of the descent to Lewis Hut mean that this is not for those fresh off the Otago Rail Trail.

The Heaphy can be ridden in two days with an option to sleep overnight in Saxon Hut or James Mackay Hut, which splits the ride in two.

Carrying a sleeping bag and extra gear and food makes for exciting biking and two days will be a lot more manageable for most people and seems like the most popular option.

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New walks planned in walking festival

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his year marks the 20th year of the Rotorua Walking Festival and already organisers are receiving a high level of interest in the event.

The Rotorua Walking Festival is a weekend recreational event with the focus on the seven walks from Friday 15th March to Sunday 17th March 2013.

The walks on each day cater for many different walking preferences, including on Saturday, walks of marathon, half marathon, and 10 km in the Whakarewarewa Forest and on the Sunday 30, 20 and 10 km distances around the parks, reserves, lakefront, CBD and stream areas of Rotorua.

Organisers are also marking the 20th anniversary with all new walking routes for the Saturday walks, utilising the section of the new cycleway – Thermal By Bike, through the Hemo Gorge (where walkers will see carved images of the legend of Hatupatu and Kurungaituku) and close to Whakarewarewa Thermal Village where they will be immersed in a geothermal landscape.

Previously known as NZ International Two Day Walk, the Rotorua Walking festival is now run by the NZ Walking Association.

Organisers are committed to continuing the event in Rotorua to promote walking as a successful activity and to promote exercise and health outcomes in the community.

Walking is widely considered to be one of the simplest and effective forms of exercise that a person can undertake. Away from the business of life it can also allow time to catch up with friends and family in a shared activity or to reflect on matters. As a way of bringing people together from young and old with little

forms of assistance it is unparalleled. In a society where there are major concerns around health such as heart disease and obesity it is something that individuals, clubs, workmates, schools, friends and family can all enjoy and benefit from.

Held annually generally in mid to late March, the Rotorua Walking Festival also forms part of the March month of walking being co-ordinated by Sport Bay of Plenty.

This year the 2013 event marks the 20th Anniversary of the event and in line with this, we have organised some fabulous spot prizes to be given away; including accommodation and breakfast packages from Holiday Inn Rotorua, our preferred accommodation supplier for the 2013 Rotorua Walking Festival.

With thanks to Walking Legends we also have two Tongariro Crossing guided Day Walks and one 4-day Lake Waikaremoana Guided Walk to giveaway. Walking Legends have created the ultimate way to experience the very best walks the North Island of New Zealand has to offer.

Entries to the Rotorua Walking Festival are now available online at the official website www.rotoruawalkingfestival.org.nz.

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ECHO Walking Festival

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ocal knowledge is often the key to a great walking experience, and this truth lies behind the success of walking festivals the world over. This April marks the 10th Anniversary of the very first New Zealand ECHO Walking Festival in the Kaimai and Coromandel, and this year’s festival boasts more walks than ever before.

Read on for a taste of what’s on offer, and to discover more about this newly independent notfor-profit walking festival.

As you search through the bush looking for toothbrushes, buckets, mirrors and coathangers you wonder who devised this curiously addictive game – the non-nature trail. You are on the ECHO Walking Festival Otanewainuku Puzzle Walk hosted by the Kiwi Conservation Club, which is on April 23rd this year in the bush near Oropi, south of Tauranga. Designed for kids as a way to test skills of observation, the non-nature trail is a fabulous addition to more traditional festival walks.

The following day you could be hiking up the Maratoto Valley at the base of the Coromandel, strolling through the remains of the Bushman’s Ballroom where local residents jigged and square-danced their

nights away in the days before satellite TV and TradeMe. This year the ECHO Walking Festival straddles ANZAC day, which is Thursday April 25th, and boasts 32 walks overall. The final day of the festival is May 5th and is marked with a dog-friendly trip along Waihi Beach, plus a historic trip through the gold mining relics of the Waiorongomai Valley near Te Aroha.

Festival organisers recently incorporated as a society, meaning the festival is on a firm footing for the future.

Society chair Brian Gentil has been organising walks since day one of the festival and says the festival relies on guides sharing their local knowledge with visitors. The festival promotes local tourism and gets people fit and healthy.

“One of our most popular events is back by demand which is the Conveyor Belt Boogie. This takes you through the workings of part of the Waihi Mine and is always heavily subscribed. The ECHO Walking Festival offers visitors a chance to see things you normally can’t access.” says society chair Brian Gentil.

Matakana Island lies tantalisingly offshore in Tauranga Harbour, largely off

limits to casual visitors. This year’s Mudflat Challenge walk will offer visitors a chance to join local iwi in a low tide crossing of the harbour, with an introduction to the charm, history and beauty of this historic island.

This walk ends in a swim – and is a relaxed way to kick off the festival, it’s the opening event on Saturday April 20th.

For more information about these walks, and the 26 others we didn’t have space to mention, visit www.echowalkfest.org.nz.

Register online now, and attend your chosen walks to enter a draw for spot prizes. The 10th Anniversary festival promises to be the most successful yet.

Insert photo show Dame Susan Devoy launching the 2012 festival. Photo by Peter Huggins

The winning shot from the 2012 photo competition taken by Jaimee Strevens, on the Coromandel Coastal Walkway. This walk which is being repeated on Sunday April 21st this year. www.walkingnewzealand.co.nz

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Overseas Walks

Overseas Guided Walks

County Clare's ‘Eden’ a walkers’ paradise

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alkers of all types are invited to put Explore the Shore events for children, or a a spring into their step at the Loop full Loop Head circuit for more serious Head Walking Festival in County walkers.

Clare, Ireland, taking place from 5-7 April, The festival closes with the Kilcredaun 2013.

Coastal Heritage Walk on Sunday afternoon The three-day festival is the perfect excuse beginning in the scenic fishing village of to visit this section of Ireland’s spectacular Carrigaholt, and continuing mainly off-road Atlantic coast, holder of a European through fields, farmland and along the Destination of Excellence (Eden) award. shoreline of the famous River Shannon, the A compact area boasting stunning Atlantic longest river in Ireland. scenery, magnificent sea cliffs, unique rock Outside of the festival walks, visitors to the formations and an incredible diversity of area will find plenty of things to do. marine and bird life, Loop Head has long been Among the must-see sites in the area is the popular not just with walking groups and Loop Head lighthouse, situated at the tip of families but also with birdwatchers, geologists the Loop Head Peninsula where the River and water sport enthusiasts.

Shannon meets the Atlantic Ocean.

The spring walking festival will feature The lighthouse features an interactive guided walks along new, recently opened exhibition describing its history and a guided circuits of Loop Head, which offer the tour up the tower to the top balcony affords opportunity to combine bracing cliff-top hikes unforgettable views of the landscape. with exploration of the area’s rich heritage and Boat trips on the Shannon offer the chance unique character. to glimpse bottlenose dolphins, while surfing, Stepping out on Friday evening (5 April) at kayaking and yachting can be enjoyed in Kilkee. the festival’s opening, walkers can enjoy the Visitors can also drop in on West Clare Kilkee Heritage Walk; Kilkee is a popular Currach Club, which revives the lost art of seaside resort built around a sheltered, semi- building and racing traditional fishing vessels. circular bay with a 1km stretch of golden beach As one of Ireland’s most popular and featuring some beautiful Victorian destinations, County Clare is also home of the buildings and streetscapes. spectacular Cliffs of Moher, The Burren and Dawn walks on both Saturday and Sunday Bunratty Castle. will offer breathtaking views from atop the www.ireland.com Kilkee cliffs, while the afternoons present www.loophead.ie

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Sidetracks

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ince its founding, Sidetracks has run small-group nature tours in New Zealand, mainly for the Ger man speaking market. Throughout the years, however, we have repeatedly received requests from Kiwis to explore our native Germany with us in the same way: through the eyes of a local. We listened!

Now Sidetracks is excited to be offering its tours to Germany, beginning in the European summer season 2013. See www.sidetracksgermany.co.nz for details.

Most members of the Sidetracks team are native Germans who have been living in New Zealand for many years. With us, you’ll feel right at home. We understand the ‘Down Under’ way of life and the German way of doing things too. So, if you are interested in visiting the heart of Europe let us take you where the locals go!

Sidetracks tours offers flexibility.

One week each regional tour, or you can link up to six together for the ultimate tour of Germany.

You can use our tours as ‘building blocks’ and combine them with your own individual travel components, like visits to friends or family in Europe.

With Sidetracks you travel with small groups.

You travel with friends, not masses! Rather than travelling in a crowded coach, we use a mini-van, bike, boat, train, subway, gondola...or we just walk.

There is a maximum of 11 people per tour - a more flexible, intimate and relaxing travel experience, plus plenty of chances to mingle with the locals rather than just looking at the tourist facade.

You meet your fellow travellers, be active, go exploring and have lots of fun together – maybe even for m new friendships (or partnerships!). www.walkingnewzealand.co.nz

Overseas Guided Walks

Boat cruise on picturesque Konigsee - St Bartoloma church in Bavaria.

Germany There is a focus on local.where you can enjoy insider tips from your tour guide and on specialised locally guided tours.

You visit well-known sights but also visit attractions off the beaten track you might never have heard of before There is the opportunity to try delicious local specialties, often hand-made by local artisans, and enjoy eating local seasonal produce The tours have been specifically created with travellers from Down Under in mind where you really discover Germany, the heart of Europe - border crossings into some of the nine neighbouring countries included There is a bilingual and bicultural tour guide throughout, who is at home both in German as well as in English.

On a Sidetracks tour we encourage you to be a participant – not just a passenger! We go tramping in national parks, explore nature, art and architecture on bike rides, use boats of all shapes and sizes to get different perspectives, and much more...

On a Sidetracks Germany tour you can take your time to notice the many features, small and big, along the way, and really discover Germany, the heart of Europe!

Above: Local specialties on a quaint market in the old town centre of Regensburg.

Below: Walk amidst spectacular rock formations - Bastei Bridge in Saxon Switzerland National Park.

Below: Picturesque shopping arcades with town hall and wine tavern - Munster in Westphalia.

Guided small group tours – visit the best of Germany, taste regional foods, meet the locals and much more...

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Te Araroa Trail

Richard Bowles on the trail with Mt Ruapehu in the background.

Richard beside the support vehicle.

Wilderness run for Project Crimson Adventure runner Richard Bowles (34yo, English born, Australian resident) has become the first runner to complete the 3054km Te Araroa Trail, which spans the length of New Zealand from Cape Reinga in the north to Bluff in the south.

Since starting on Saturday 13 October, Richard has run an average of almost 50km per day, and experienced physical and emotional highs to the extreme. As he ran the final 32km from Invercargill to Bluff along a busy highway in the pouring rain with trucks flying past him he looked just as determined as he did when he set out two months ago.

During 2012 Richard became the first

person to run the world’s longest marked trail, the rough and remote National Trail of Australia, raising awareness and funds for mental health organisation SANE Australia along the way.

In just five and a half months Richard ran the equivalent of 127 marathons, and traversed the treacherous dividing range mountains from Melbourne to Cooktown, earning the reputation as a hybrid of Bear Grylls and Forrest Gump.

Despite knee deep mud, treacherous mountain passes and overgrown trails, Richard has fallen in love with the beauty of New Zealand, “It’s absolutely stunning, every day is another bit of paradise!”. Richard is in awe of New Zealands natural beauty, but is also aware of its danger, having taken several decent tumbles down steep mountain sections, crossing fast

flowing rivers, and chancing it in avalanche prone regions.

Combining a passion for adventure, a love for running, and a determination to make a positive contribution to the places through which he runs, Richard is raising funds and awareness for Project Crimson, a leading conservation organisation, who have made impressive progress re-establishing pohutukawa and rata nationwide by planting trees, coordinating and supporting a wide range of maintenance activities, scientific research, possum control programmes and public education.

Many people have run the length of New Zealand on relatively flat terrain and at a total distance of just 2,200km. Richard will run another 50% on top of this distance and on rugged, mountainous terrain. Richard says, “The trail less travelled offers the best adventures, and I’m all about challenging myself on a daily basis”.

The Te Araroa typically takes hikers 100 days or more to complete. The trail offers people from all walks of life the ability to experience some of the most magnificent aspects of New Zealands natural beauty and in turn educates people about the importance of conserving the natural environment.

Footnote: Richard Bowles has many years experience in the discipline of distance running and regularly runs 200km weekly on trails around Melbourne. He is the first person to ever run the worlds longest marked trail, and is the Australian Record holder of the 2010 Tenzing Hillary Mt Everest Marathon; Winner of the 2011 Tasmanian 3 Peaks Challenge (sailing and mountain running event) and Record Holder of the Wilsons Prom Ultra Marathon 2010.

For more info go to www.richardbowles.com.au

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Exploring Egmont National Park and Mt Taranaki

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rekking Egmont National Park in Taranaki is a unique experience.

Beech trees cover most of New Zealand’s national parks; however, in Egmont there is native rain forest with the ubiquitous Mt Taranaki, one of the world’s most symmetrical active volcanos, never far away.

Ian McAlpine has an affinity with Mt Taranaki — he’s climbed it over 1800 times — and his company, Mt Taranaki Guided Tours, has guided clients, from all over the world, to its summit and throughout the Egmont National Park for 22 years.

“We’re ideal for people wanting to tick off their bucket list… looking for a challenge.

Many have done the Tongariro Crossing and we’d like to get those people over to Taranaki,” says Ian. Mt Taranaki Guided Tours offer several one to four-day treks throughout Egmont National Park. One of those is the Pouakai Crossing, which has been described as “The best one-day walk in the west.”

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eight to nine hours. You will experience spectacular volcanic terrain with a clear view of Taranaki’s two largest volcanic cones. As you are a reasonable distance away from Mt Taranaki, there is also an opportunity to take some spectacular photos of the mountain.

Apart from the physical challenge and the fantastic scenery, you also get the opportunity to learn something new — Ian and his guides have a broad knowledge of the region’s history, flora and fauna, as well as stories from Maori culture.

Guided climbs up Mt Taranaki are available all year round, with climbs available daily during summer months.

Though the mountain isn’t particularly high (2517 meters in total with 1500 meters climbing each way), Ian says it’s a good size.

“If it was 300 meters lower, it would be too easy and 300 meters higher it would take two days,” he says. Climbing to the top of the mountain and back takes about eight hours (five up and three down).

Ian says that the emphasis is always to ensure clients enjoy the “ultimate mountain experience”. The pace is varied to match clients’ levels of fitness and if they can’t make it to the top, there is no pressure to do so.

Preparation is important for clients’ safety and enjoyment, says Ian — a gear list is sent before each trip to ensure clients are suitably prepared and there is a consultation process to understand what clients want to achieve.

According to Ian, with the guided treks (unlike the guided climbs) clients usually fall into two categories: those who want to be social and have good food and wine on the trip and others who are there purely for the physical challenge, so trips are tailored to suit.

As it is important that everyone has the same objectives and are of similar fitness levels, Ian says they avoid mixing groups.

“I really love the mountain and the lifestyle I have been able to create and would like more people to experience what Taranaki has to offer,” says Ian.

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A well formed track leads to Lake Hood. Right: The sign at the bridge.

At the Ashburton end where the track starts.

In the background is the bridge on SH1.

Lake Hood Trail The Braided Waters/Lake Hood Trail starts in Ashburton at the south end of the State Highway One, Ashburton River Bridge. The track meanders 7.4km to the top of Lake Hood.

There is a parking area on the west side of bridge approach. Walk under the bridge and turn right, walk 20m parallel to SH 1, and there is a sign which indicates the track.

The track passes through plantation areas, natural vegetation and along the bank of the river. Many varieties of birds can be seen and heard. The walk is a comfortable two-hour walk for families.

A further 1.1km stage can be undertaken from the top of the Lake to the Lake House

Restaurant or a further 7km added by circumnavigating the lake. Alternatively it will take between half an hour and one hour to cycle with almost any type of bike.The trail can be traversed in either direction.

Lake Hood Lake Hood, its park like surroundings and Huntingdon Park - form the Ashburton Aquahc Park.

The park is situated 6 km South East of Tinwald with entry from State Highway One just to the south end of Tinwald Township and is open for all to enjoy.

Huntington Park is the name given to all of the lake side, and residential living within

the development.

In excess of 80 hectares in area, 2,300 metres in length and over one kilometre wide - the lake comprrses an eight lane international rowing course, a separate water skiing area, as well as a separate jet skiing area, plus sailing and kayaking, which can all be enjoyed on or around the lake simultaneously Although there is no camping allowed at Lake Hood there are public toilets and public gas BBQs which are free to use. The Lake House Restaurant & Bar is open daily from 10:00am till late. Whether you want a cup of coffee or a three course meal, or just a cool drink in the Lake House Bar, you can sit and relax and enjoy the view of the Lake.

Left and right: There are interesting walks along the canels in Lake Hood.

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If you would like to stay overnight at Lake Hood there is B&B accommodation available.

There is another trail that starts on the northern end of the bridge at Ashburton and follows the river to the coast at Hakatere.

The Braided Waters Cycleway Trust has been established to coordinate and assist a number of small community groups within the Ashburton District that were interested in developing cycle ways.

The current intended planned Ashburton District cycleway route has been designed to maximise infrastucture (canal and stop banks, quiet country roads), tourism assets, scenic values, heritage values, and development opportunitites while compassing 145km trail designed to cater for a three-four day biking experience within the district.

While two sections of the proposed route are already open for cycling, these consist of an 8.4km section of the Lake Hood end of the trail and a 3km section at the Rakaia end of the proposed route.

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â– Above: There are many walking paths around the Huntington Park residential area, with views of the lake and canels.

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Above: Christmas morning at Piha Beach.

Mark and Nathaniel walked the Tasman Lookout Track from the south end of Piha Beach to reach The Gap. Photo by Sandrine Smith, Puke, Hamilton.

These are the winners of this month’s photos in our Digital Photo Contest.

Congratulations to the following who each receive a six month subscription, or six month subscription extension to Walking New Zealand magazine.

Above: Elva and Pat walking through colourful tussock along the track on Mt. Urchin in the Kaimanawa Forest, access from the Desert Road. Photo by Gerda Corporaal, Galatea.

Below: Having travelled from the Bay of Plenty the previous day we were mesmerized by this early morning view of the goal. We decided we needed to make a survey from distance before making the ascent. Kay waits. (Shopping first?) Photo

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Above right: An unexpected dumping of snow at Black Hill Hut overnight meant a difficult walk out to the car park the next morning. Photo by Robert McWha, Pirongia.

We are looking for the best digital photos each month depicting walking.

Now is the time to get your digital camera out or look through your digital images and enter the

Walking New Zealand Digital Photo Contest

Below: This picture was taken recently on a walk at Dickey's Flat in Waihi. Cousins Declan Brown and Anthea Bowden with their Poppa - Warwick Buckman. There are two swingbridges on this walk. Photo by Photo by Krishna Buckman, Waihi.

The image could be a scenic scene, a walk on the beach with the dog, a bush walk, a street walk or anything walking that takes your fancy.

The rules are simply: there must be a person or persons walking in the picture either front, side or back on, and can be in the distance. We require an emailed image in high resolution mode, in jpeg format as an attachment, and NOT embedded in Word or in the email. Only email photos accepted, not posted photos.

In the subject line type “Walking New Zealand Photo Contest” and the email must include the NAME, ADDRESS and phone number of the person who took the photo and a small caption.

In this contest only ONE emailed photo accepted per month. Entry in the contest automatically allows us to print the image. The person who has their photo published will receive a six month subscription or a renewal to Walking New Zealand magazine of six months. If a picture is chosen for the cover page the person will receive a 12 month subscription or renewal.

Email your entries to: walkingnz@xtra.co.nz with subject line “Walking New Zealand Photo Contest”

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By Jenness Reeve

Go ‘One Step Beyond’ this April Great Barrier Island Walking Festival

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reat Barrier Island is somewhere I have long wanted to visit but never quite got round to it. I love the idea that it is remote, beautiful and mountainous in parts, varied seascapes from fjordland around Port Fitzroy to windswept Hobson Beach, surf beaches like Medlands and great walks.

I love it that people who choose to live there have the same pioneering spirit that took settlers there in the first place. In the absence of mains power and water innovative islanders rise to the challenge of harnessing solar and wind power. If not a leap into the unknown it is definitely ‘One Step Beyond’ for me.

No more excuses, I have bitten the bullet and booked my spot on a three day walking event - The Great Barrier Island Walking Festival, and already feel like an intrepid explorer knowing I have to either fly to ‘The Barrier’ or make the four hour trip by sea.

I am favouring the sea trip so that the adventure lasts that little bit longer! I have already booked my accommodation and am looking forward to getting to know the islanders as some of them will accompany the walks. I also have it on good authority that it will be possible to enjoy a bit of island nightlife too!

This inaugural walking festival is a ‘taster’

of what Great Barrier Island has to offer and will showcase just a few of the walking tracks and have expert guides to give insights into the history, flora and fauna of the island.

What’s so good about a walking festival is that it is a great opportunity to really get to know a place. Many of the tracks are part of the history of the island, as they were old roads and tracks for mining and forestry access.

This first festival is limited to 100 people only, so you will need to book early to be sure to get a spot. You will need to be fit as the walks are likely to be challenging.

Great Barrier Island Walking Festival, 1214 April 2013: For all information on travel,

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5 Minutes Walk to Medlands Beach, Great Barrier

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The rocky coastline around the island.

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accommodation and booking go to www.greatbarrierwalkfest.org , also check out Facebook Great Barrier Island Walking Festival.

So, will I see you there?

Jenness Reeve, Director of the Waiheke Walking Festival.

P.S. If you can’t make this festival but fancy some walking on ‘the Barrier’ you might like to check out the Aotea Track which is a two to three day walk described by the Department of Conservation as ‘looping the central mountainous area of Great Barrier Island (Aotea).

The track is a network of easy walking tracks, steep climbs, stairways and bridges, offering a range of spectacular landscapes and rich history.

Much of the track follows the central ridge of the island so panoramic views are plentiful’, check out www.doc.govt.nz.

Description of all the walks planned for the first festival: There’s Gold in Them-There Hills – The Te Ahumata Track weaves its way through the gold and silver mining heart of the island.

The locals call this area ‘the whitecliffs’ and you’ll soon see why.

Stunning views from this open track give you a sense of scale of the island.

Our local historians will take you ‘off track’ to see the hidden history of this fascinating wind-blown ridge, exploring mine entrances, tunnels, machinery and the Stamper Battery before emerging at beautiful Okupu Bay. An Early Bath – One for the beginner, this is a well-made, easy grade track that follows an ancient shoreline alongside the Kaitoke Wetlands. Look out for fernbirds, spotless crake, orchids or sun dews.

45 minutes into the walk you stumble across a creek which has been dammed to form a few small hot pools. Bring your lunch, bring your togs, or just soak your feet, but don’t expect Hanmer Springs…. returns by same route.

Over the Top - The big one – knock it off! Not for the fainthearted, this is an all day trek with a good six hours of walking. Expect steep sections, exposure to the weather and hundreds of steps. Hardy souls will be rewarded with a stunning wind-carved canyon, the island’s highest peak – Hirakimata (Mt Hobson), unique flora and fauna and a

A log on a windsweep shoreline. www.walkingnewzealand.co.nz

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A boardwalk winds its way between the trees. Photo Andris Apse

well preserved Kauri Dam. And a quick look at Port Fitzroy on the way home. – This is an all day walk!

Kotuku Peninsula Sanctuary to Port Fizroy with a subject expert. This is a pestfree paradise.

This 2 km walk takes you along a well formed track through native regenerating and old growth forest, incorporating a swing bridge Tipi and Bobs Waterfront Lodge situated on the waters edge of Tryphena. Self contained and serviced waterfront accommodation.

Six Units sleep 2-4pax, Cottage sleeps 2-7pax. Licensed Restaurant and Bar catering for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinners. We can arrange your travel package. Contact Margery Phone: 09 4290550 Mob: 0275505187 E: tipinbob@xtra.co.nz Web: waterfrontlodge.co.nz

into the canopy of a 400 year old kauri tree.

Learn about the restoration of Kotuku Peninsula, where over 15,000 trees have been planted covering 230 ha, before heading up to Sunset Rock for arguably the best view on the island.

Along the walk you may see giant weta, black petrel (one of the most endangered birds in the world), a flock of brown teal, rare chevron skinks as well as our more common native bird species.

Wild and Windy Whangapoua Beach Just a walk on the beach, but what a beach!

Last time I was here my wife kissed a puffer

fish! (says guide, Gary Wilton). Walk the two kilometres of wild and windswept sandy beach with spectacular views of Hirakimata and Rakitu Island.

Look for banded rail, New Zealand dotterel, brown teal and oyster catchers, hear local settler history straight from the locals and see the grave site from one of Barrier’s worst shipwrecks, stunning.

Coastal Challenge- Harataonga Track ending at Harataonga.

Featuring 12 kilometres of easy-grade coastal track. This is a long one at five hours, but it’s easier than it sounds. The route hugs the contour just above the coast, making it the flattest track on the island. You are rewarded with multiple breathtaking views out to sea as well as an aerial view of the Whangapoua Estuary and Beach. Finish up at beautiful Harataonga Bay. – This is an all day walk!

A Whale of a Time – Join us for a gentle stroll around the sheltered bay of Whangaparapara. You’ll find a wharf, a lodge, the last whaling station in the southern hemisphere and a cemetery where they bring the coffins in on a boat. Explore the bay and hear about the time when this place was the centre of the island and whales were landed, processed and packed off to the world.

Southern Exposure - The Barrier has many faces, and many views. The view south from Cape Barrier extends to the Mercury Islands and Coromandel from where it is only a hop, skip and jump across the channel. Stand at the Whalers’ lookout on the point and look for a Right Whale breaking the surface, check out the bays and note the other track options so that you’re in the know, for next time.

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By Miriam Beatson Above: Te Araroa founder Geoff Chapple and RNZFB Ambassador Bronagh Key lead out the North Shore section of EyeTrek Te Araroa. Photo NZFB

The power of walking

T

e Araroa helped raise over $120,000 for the Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind Te Araroa founder Geoff Chapple launched the New Zealand Eye Health Professionals’ Fundraising Trek at Long Bay, Auckland, on 3 November 2012.

Geoff and Prime Minister’s wife Bronagh Key (RNZFB Ambassador) then headed off on the walk, followed by an eager crowd.

Over 150 eye health professionals and their friends from across New Zealand trekked sections of Te Araroa to raise money for the new digital library at the RNZFB. EyeTrek Te Araroa took place over two days in several different locations on the same

weekend, including Wellington, the Kapiti Coast, Queen Charlotte Sound, Queenstown, Wanaka and Auckland. In Auckland the routes chosen were the 23km North Shore Coastal Walk from Long Bay to Devonport on the Saturday, and the Hunua Ranges hike on the Sunday. Participants could choose to walk either one or both days.

Well done to those involved - all it took was one foot after another, over and over again, and they have to date raised more than $120,000 for the digital library!

Below: EyeTrek Participants on the North Shore Coastal Walk section of Te Araroa.

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ere is an opportunity to accept the personal challenge of hiking 22 km a day for three days through the magnificent Mackenzie High Country and help raise money to build the footbridge over the Tekapo River.

The event is the High Country Musterers Walk from Friday March 8 to Sunday March 10 2013.

The walk will take you through parts of the Mackenzie High Country, through Glenmore and Balmoral Stations, not normally open to the general public and past the reserve where the endangered black stilt is thriving under DOC protection.

At the end of each day relax and enjoy high country entertainment and satisfying musterers’ meals around a cheery campfire.

On one evening, with a clear sky, you will explore the wonders of our starry universe guided by an astro expert.

On the other evening you’ll step into local history through the eyes of a local landowner.

To enter, an entry fee plus sponsorship is required.

The Lake Tekapo Footbridge Society is a registered charity and all donations are tax deductable. Start working on your fitness!

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Above: A walk on the flat with Mt Joseph in the background. Below: Mountain vistas in the MacKenzie Country.

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hink of Banks Peninsula and, likely as not, images of open grassy hillsides come to mind. So it is always nice when walkers on the Banks Peninsula Track are surprised to find not only grassy hillsides but

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also rainforest, waterfalls, high coastal cliffs, sheltered sandy bays, comfortable quirky accommodation, and diverse wildlife.

I happen to be lucky enough to walk this Track at least once every season. I have to. It’s part of my job. (Someone has to do it!) How do I find myself in this enviable situation? It’s because I am the manager and a trustee of Hinewai Reserve, which the Track traverses on its final day.

Way back in 1989 eight different landowner families in the southeast extremities of the Peninsula combined forces and resources, looking for ways to diversify their income bases after some difficult years of drought and falling farm commodity prices. Most of these families were farmers but, at the time, our charitable trust was establishing Hinewai Reserve as a major conservation initiative, privately owned but freely open to the public.

Co-operative activity saw the Track formed, bridges built, signs and markers erected, accommodation created, and all the background organization started that was to blossom into a successful low-key venture in green tourism. It was the first of what were to

Above: Hugh Wilson on a track maintenance mission at Sleepy Cove. In the background the sea stack is the remnant of a huge sea arch which collapsed in the earthquakes of 2010.

Photographer: Paul Newport

become many “private” walking tracks across New Zealand.

Nowadays up to 2600 walkers enjoy our Track each year. The Canterbury earthquakes of 2010/11 slashed numbers for a time, not because of any actual danger, but because of anxious perceptions from afar.

Each walker pays a fee that covers the Track, transport from Akaroa to the first night’s stay at Onuku, accommodation along the way, and a guide booklet to the route with its natural and human history. There are two main options – to walk the 35kms in four days or (for the fitter and more urgent) to walk the same route in two days. Additional charges apply for extras, such as pack cartage, sea kayak hire, and food purchases from little self-serve “shops”.

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e Banks Peninsula Track is responsible for their own section, ranging from about 40 to 8000 metres. Some landowners have a huge amount of work each year to keep their sections walkable, while for others the workload is lighter because of the nature and scale of the terrain.

To be frank, too, and without casting too many nasturtiums at my Track colleagues, some landowners are keener on the Track than others, for a variety of reasons. The Company as a whole makes provision for augmenting effort where needed on some sections.

This is where my annual walk comes in. At least once a season a careful audit must be made of maintenance and safety standards.

(The season, incidentally, runs, or walks, from 1 October to 31 April.) I walk (I definitely don’t run) the Track with a notebook in hand, and with both my eyes and my pencil sharpened.

As soon as I get home to Hinewai I write a report and post it to all the Track Company.

It’s not all a cake walk. There are lots of structures to peer at, hit, shake, jump up and down and lean upon. Also, what seems safe and straightforward in pleasant conditions can show a different face in stormy weather. It’s the real world out there, not a sheltered theme park!

This season we had prodigious rains in August that sent slips across the Track and washed away bridges, so that we had to scramble to get everything ship-shape for the October start. The last planks on a new bridge across Narbey stream were bolted into place with only a day to spare.

Years ago when I was younger, possibly more eager, and definitely quicker, I would do most of the Track Inspection in a day. (I was Top right: Track Inspector Hugh Wilson at Trig GG, the highest point along the Banks Peninsula Track. Photographer: Paul Newport Right:Two walkers from Norway approach a boardwalk under repair, Stony Bay. Photographer: Paul Newport

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Behind the scenes on the Banks Peninsula Track already familiar on a daily basis with the Hinewai section of course).

This gave me only brief encounters with other walkers. Now that I’m nearer 70 than 65 I always spend a full four days on the inspection, just as if I am a paying client.

This October I was walking with my own Hinewai Reserve work colleague Paul, and a group of five doughty women. Four of them were Australian. The fifth was a Kiwi who knew one of the Aussies from overseas work experience in Britain years ago. Also in Onuku Track Hut on the first night was a group of four two-day walkers from Wellington. They sped away into the distance the next morning, never to be seen (by us) again.

Everyone had a very windy ascent of Trig GG, but it was dry and clear with ever expanding views. Once over the highest point (699m, give or take a metre or two) and down into the Flea Bay Gully, we were in the bush and out of the wind. At Flea Bay Paul and the women went off for a penguin watch with Farmer Francis while I wrote up the day’s notes. They returned to the cottage bubbling about what they had seen.

Next morning Paul had to depart abruptly from Flea Bay to join a bizarre Search and Rescue mission at Hinewai. (It ended happily.) Paul’s involvement left me free to continue on the Track.

Noon on the second day brought thunder and hail. The womenfolk, ahead of me, were caught in the thick of it while I sat it out warm, dry, and feeling slightly guilty in Seal Cove shelter. That night at Stony Bay the Aussies were recounting the storm in vivid detail which, they assured me, they would creatively embellish during numerous future retellings to their grandchildren.

Put Aussies and Kiwis together in a backcountry hut and the air will soon be ripe with good-natured banter. “We’re sorry we’re Aussie” said one “but we can’t help it. We were born that way”. The two Kiwis clicked their tongues in sympathy.

After the storm the sea next day was tumultuous. Huge rollers were powering into Blind Bay, which has no beach to dissipate all that raw wild energy. Instead the swells smashed into unforgiving vertical basalt. Under placid blue sunny skies explosions of white spray were bursting 50 metres into the air.

By the fourth night, at Otanerito Beach House, we were all good mates. That seems to be the usual cheerful outcome if two or more groups are thrown together as strangers at Akaroa and Onuku. By the time they walk up through Hinewai on the last day they have usually melded, even if only briefly, into one friendly congregation. (A maximum of twelve can set off at any one time on the four-day walk so, if you prefer, one lot of twelve already tried and tested friends can book out the whole Track).

I felt a little sad farewelling my five new friends in the middle of Hinewai on our fourth day, when I veered off to my house half an hour’s walk away through the fern-filled forest. The women carried on over Purple Peak Saddle to Akaroa, no doubt looking forward to cafes, coffee and ice-cream.

Opposite page: A waterfall in Flea Bay Gully.

It’s a good experience for me, seeing our familiar Track through their fresh eyes. Perhaps they were only being polite, but they in turn insisted that they had enjoyed hearing snippets of local knowledge from me along the way. And they had pointed out a few minor shortcomings along the Track that I would not have noticed, but which I duly included in my report.

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The giants of

Girraween Alex and Jenny Davies irraween National Park lies close to the New South Wales border in SE Queensland. There are only 17 km of walking tracks, so a day visit is enough to explore many features.

The track makers have made extensive use of the abundant local stone to make steps and it’s easy going until one seeks the best views from the heights of the granite monoliths such as Castle Rock and The Pyramid. Then the exposed rock faces are steep and care is needed.

Bald Rock Creek is flanked by expanses of flat rock, and drains most of the park, westward, heading for the middle of the continent.

The giant granite features that are such a feature of Girraween were formed first by deep volcanic activity over 200 million years ago. As the magma cooled, it hardened under great pressure. Over the ensuing millennia, complete mountains eroded away from above, and the granite came to be close to the surface.

The pressure was released, the rock expanded and cracked into big blocks, in layers.

Especially at the corners of the blocks, the outer surfaces peeled off progressively due to daily temperature changes and a reaction with the atmosphere. And so the amazing rounded sculptures were formed.

Now, people come to walk among this

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handiwork, marvel at how the big round boulders balance on each other, and give the rocks imaginative names.

The rocks are often hidden behind a dense forest. Apart from the ubiquitous eucalypts with their fascinating bark patterns, a common tree is the black cypress that appeared as bright green cones growing from cracks in the great rock slabs.

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An evening walk along Quart Pot Creek in Stanthorpe.

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The giants of

Girraween are promised.

Next time, we might be luckier in seeing wildlife with feathers, fur or scales. We would have liked to see the displays in the well constructed information centre, but opening hours are apparently restricted to a couple of hours on weekdays.

Another walk we enjoyed in the area was at Queen Mary Falls near Killarney. A short track took us in a loop down to the base of the falls, then on another loop up the opposite side of the gorge for more views of the falls and back to the start.

Since we were staying in Stanthorpe, we took advantage of the extensive system of paths following both backs of the stream flowing through the town.

While there are plenty of exotic deciduous trees colouring up in the autumn further south in Australia, they are unusual in Queensland except on this plateau.

This is the coldest part of Queensland.

Walking along Quart Pot Creek to view the reflections of the maples and swamp cypresses is a popular pastime in the Stanthorpe evenings, before the temperatures plunge after the sun goes down.

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Sea Sky and Bush event so much more than a walk L ooking for a great experience in 2013?

The Rotary Club of Waipukurau invites you to make one of those experiences their popular 3 day annual walk that is so much more than a walking event.

This is the annual Sea, Sky & Bush Walk, on 2, 3 and 4 March 2013.

The Sea Sky Bush Walk begins at Pukeora Estate on the outskirts of Waipukurau where our club accommodates all who wish to stay.

Here you will not only experience Waipukurau Rotary’s great hospitality, but you can also enjoy the panoramic views over the Ruataniwha Plains and up the Tuki Tuki River to the backdrop of the Ruahine Ranges.

The Rotarians will lead you through miles of open countryside with the awe inspiring Pacific Ocean seemingly at ones feet and the magnificent Ruahine Ranges often in sight. An outstanding historic homestead and gardens, native bush, wonderful bird life, the proposed Ruataniwha Dam as well as stories from the past are only part of what’s on offer.

It means ‘all hands on deck’ for the Rotarians over the three days. On the daily walks handsome strong farmer types are available for rescues on 4 wheeled motor bikes, more of them walk alongside as they love to chat. They transport portaloos and mattresses, organise buses each day, run the bars, pour tea in the morning and the catering team cook up a storm in the kitchen.

Our chef is once again planning haute country cuisine for 2013. Many return walkers swear they come for the food first and the walk second!

Weary bodies at the end of each day are able to make use of the heated indoor pool, so don’t forget your togs. Masseuses are waiting to magic away all the aches and pains and after dinner, if your satiated body is able to withstand anymore, the Rotarian provide light and enjoyable entertainment in the evenings.

You may register for one, two, or the full three day walk. You can either fill out the booking form in the brochure, or check out the website to book and pay online. Bring your friends and your family — the more the merrier!

The Sea, Sky Bush Walk is Waipukurau Rotary’s major fundraiser. 2013 is our 14th and offers another fantastic opportunity to see Central Hawke’s Bay at its best.

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Day 1 - Sea

Saturday 2nd March - 2013 Wonderful views of the Pacific Ocean and coastline will be continuous as we trek through the Elsthorpe district of Central Hawke's Bay. Views will also include some of the damage incurred during cyclonic rain storms in 2011.

Our tramp begins at Landcorp owned Paeroa Station, through a valley with QE II covenant Bush and varieties of native birds. On our ascent to the highest point of the walk is a flood retention dam, built to control water flows downstream, this dam overflowed for the first time ever during the storm.

We will cross the boundary into Waimarama Station, where the farm manager will point out areas of interest. Our final destination is 6 kilometres on and downhill all the way.

Distance: 14.5 Km's

Day 2 - Bush Sunday 3rd March - 2013 This year we are very privileged to walk over Smedley Station, Central Hawke’s Bay’s iconic national training centre for farm cadets.

The station bounds onto the Wakarara Ranges and is situated 10km's west of Tikokino.

More special even is the proposed walk at the back of the station and seldom visited by the public. We travel via the intriguingly named “Pinch Gut Road” to a logging skid site next to the back boundary of Smedley Station.

The total walk is approximately 13km on rolling hill country with superb views of the Ruahine Ranges. The melodious sounds of tui's, bell birds and wood pigeons will accompany us as we cross several small streams and pass through extensive areas of native bush showcasing black birch, rimu, matai and kaikomako.

Approximately 6km's into the walk we will stop for lunch at “Middle Whare” the hut where the cadets sleep out when working at the back of the station.

The real highlight however comes in the 7km afternoon walk when we arrive at the wall of the proposed Ruataniwha Water Storage

Dam site. A senior member of the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council staff will be on hand to give us an overview of the project.

The panoramic views of the dam site and the Makaroro River are extensive.

Imagine being able to walk on land that will be submerged forever if the dam gets the green light.

The walk continues through scattered bush featuring Totara and Kahikatea above the Makororo River and back to the buses.

Distance – 13 kms

Day 3 - Sky Monday 4th March - 2013 Family histor y spanning colonial settlement and prominence in New Zealand farming politics awaits us on our final walk.

This day combines the “bush” experience with the Ormond family of “Wallingford”. Our visit to Wallingford Homestead offers a glimpse into an everyday working lifestyle amidst the gracious and comfortable charm of what is now an international guest lodge.

The homestead was built in 1853 and is reputedly the largest single storey dwelling in the southern hemisphere. Enjoy a guided tour of the four ‘wings” with host Johnny Ormond, the fourth generation JD Ormond to live in the homestead and to farm the 3,000 acre property.

Our walk takes us from the homestead down across the old cricket field. Here, many hard fought matches involving family members, club and representative cricketers along with a number of international players have graced the Wallingford wicket. We then walk through one of two QE11 covenanted patches of bush on Wallingford before heading up “the old Clay Road” past the dam which supplies irrigation to the Wallingford gardens.

We carry on up an easy gradient to obtain a view of the homestead and the beautiful rolling hills.

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Podiatry

In toeing and out toeing in children

By Rachel Carle

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re you concerned about how ‘turned-in’ or ‘turned-out’ a child’s walking is? Not sure if it needs further assessment? Then this article is for you.

In toeing or ‘pigeon toed’ walking This is quite a common occurrence through childhood. Whilst in the womb the baby is in a tightly packed position and this can result in the foot, tibia or femur twisting slightly. This can cause them to rotate inwards.

In-toeing is often outgrown, and rarely causes ongoing issues with walking or with the joints in the leg. Parents are often concerned about ‘clumsy’ or ‘uncoordinated’ walking, and frequent tripping and may be be concerned about their child’s ability to run and compete in sports. Children with in-toeing are often not concerned by their walking, and do not struggle with sports.

In toeing is divided into the area of the lower limb from which is occurs; Forefoot: this is where the forefoot twists inwards, meaning that even when the heel and leg are walking straight, the forefoot is curved inward. It is more common in premature babies and multiple births. This often

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spontaneously resolves, but if it quite significant can be treated in very young babies (up to about six months) by stretching the area, or older babies through splinting the foot in a cast and changing it regularly, or through special footwear.

Tibia (shin bone): An inwardly rotated

shin bone is the most common cause of intoeing in children from the age of one to three years. This will often spontaneously resolve by this time, and if it does not, can not be treated until they are an adult. In the past, children with inwardly rotating skin bones were treated with special braces placed between shoes to hold their feet in an outward position.

This is no longer used as it has been shown to be no more effective than no treatment and can have significant psy-chological and social effects on the growing child.

Femur (thigh bone): When we are born, the top of the thigh bone is internally rotated in relation to the shaft of the tight bone by up to 40 degrees. As the baby grows the soft tissue

around the area makes the thigh bone take a internally rotated position, which becomes evident when they start to walk. Without any treatment or therapy, this will reduce to about 10-15 degrees by the age of eight to10.

This in toeing is most evident in children between the ages of two to five years, and gradually improves from then. These children can be identified as ‘W’ sitters, or may run with a ‘windmill’ motion of the legs. Only in very rare cases is any treatment required, and can includ either stretching or surgery.

Out toeing or ‘Charlie Chaplin’ walking This is much less common than in toeing, but can cause more issues in adulthood.

It occurs either at the shin bone, where it is outwardly rotated, or at the thigh bone. Little can be done to treat an out toeing walking style, but they can spontaneously resolve.

These people can be at higher risk of knee and hip problems when they are fully grown.

Orthotic’s (inserts within footwear which helps to correct walking deformities) can help to ensure that the lower limb functions more optimally.

Whilst many in toeing and out toeing walking patterns resolve before adulthood, it is important to get professional advice if you think it may be affecting their ability to walk.

Also, if they complain of tired and sore leg, or painful feet, it is a good idea to see a podiatrist.

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Exploring the Bay of Island’s Kauri Ridge

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Accompanied by my son, Liam, our guide, William, and his friend Vincent, we walked from the small settlement of Rawhiti all the way to a long-abandoned whaling station at Whangamumu Harbour before turning back Oke Bay, with small boats sailing on turquoiseto our car at Tangatapu.

The Bay of Islands is known for coloured waters and Whangamumu Beach was n January this year, on a fabulous day that spectacular sea-views and Kauri Ridge didn’t idyllic — an ideal spot to swim or have a picnic. only the Bay can deliver, I walked Kauri disappoint. We enjoyed the picture-perfect Flora and fauna Ridge. Kauri Ridge is one of 17 walks It was a hot day, so we came prepared with included in the inaugural Bay of Island’s Above: All that remains of a Whaling hats, sun screen and sun glasses. However, as Walking Weekend planned for the fourth to most of the track is surrounded by dense bush, Station.

Below: Looking out across Whangamumu sixth of October this year. with the canopy providing shade, it wasn’t until Harbour. we reached a stretch of grass leading to Whangamumu beach that we felt the need for protection.

My knowledge of native trees is limited, but I did recognise nikau palms, rimu, lancewood, manuka, celery pine and kauri.

One of the highlights, and why Kauri Ridge is so named, was the thick grove of kauri trees about two thirds into the walk.

I could have walked Kauri Ridge by myself, but I found that being accompanied by a guide with local knowledge meant that I learned much more than I would have otherwise.

William proved to be a great source of interesting facts. For instance, I learned that kawakawa leaf can be rubbed onto the skin and used as an insect repellent and the plant known as “bush lawyer” should be avoided because it can cut your skin. He also pointed out the vast difference between juvenile and adult lancewood trees — they look like two

If you are passionate about walking, then there’s plenty to get excited about in the Bay of Islands. In fact, the region boasts over 35 great walking tracks, each with something different to offer.

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Above : Sunrise at Oke Bay.

Above : Looking down on Oke Bay.

different species. The juvenile tree sports razor-like leaves, where the leaves of the adult are much broader. Vincent said that he’d heard that this was nature’s way of protecting the juvenile trees from browsing moa.

The chatter of cicadas was ever present (“The sound of summer,” as William put it) as well as several species of birdlife.

Kauri Ridge is home to an abundance of native birds, including kiwis, but, of course, they only come out at night. On the day I spotted several fantails, tuis and grey warblers.

Whangamumu Whaling Station Once we reached Whangamumu Beach, we took a short walk along rocks below a steep cliff to get to the remains of the Whangamumu Whaling Station. The tide was

coming in, so getting our feet wet was unavoidable, much to Liam’s disgust.

The whaling station dates back to the 1800s and in its heyday, it could process up to 50 whales per season. The remains included an old boiler as well as several concrete vats where the whales’ meat and bones were cooked; down on the beach is a ramp where the whales were dragged ashore.

Level of difficulty Kauri Ridge is described as medium difficulty, suitable for kids over ten years of age. After doing the walk, I agree. Though it took us quite a while (we walked 10.9 kilometres over about five hours) and a portion of it is uphill, we completed it without too much pain. In fact, I was surprised to see that William wore sandals throughout. I’m told, however, that when it rains the track gets very slippery, so in wet conditions hiking boots are recommended.

If you want to experience native New Zealand bush, take some spectacular photos and get a glimpse of the Bay’s whaling past, you’ll enjoy Kauri Ridge.

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Health

Joining the dots

Strong feet childhood

by Gary Moller

Dip Ph Ed PG Dip Rehab PG Dip

Sport Med (Otago) FCE Certified

By Kay Lindley

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rom the Ridges to the Sea—this slogan from the Ark in the Park Vision Statement in 2000 expressed their desire to expand protected areas and to link sites of biodiversity via corridors of protected habitat.

The Ark in the Park at the Cascades Kauri Park now links with the privately owned properties of the Buffer Zone down the Waitakere Valley, and in turn connects to the Forest & Bird Reserve Matuku, which is only a short distance from the beach at Te Henga.

Important biodiversity at Te Henga includes New Zealand dotterel, which are breeding again thanks to predator control and a small protected headland, where more species of petrel and shearwater nest than at any other mainland site in New Zealand.

The Matuku Reser ve is named after a bittern, which now is a threatened species, while also here is the spotless crake, a small endemic rail.

Fernbirds, also endemic, are common around the swamp edge that is part of the southern border of this reserve.

Matuku Reserve has both swamp and forest habitat and although both are accessible from its main access off the ridge, for many people the full walk is rather demanding.

Having spent many days last year clearing a track at the reserve along the swamp edge and in the process uncovering the old 1920 tramway used for kauri log extraction, Ark volunteers knew they had a flat scenic track that showcased

swamp, riverine, and forest habitats.

With the kind permission of a local landowner, they were able this year, as part of the World Wetland Day 40th anniversary, to access the cleared tramway track directly from his riverside property.

Displays from the National Wetland Trust, Forest & Bird, Auckland Council Biosecurity, Ducks Unlimited, and the Waitakere Rivercare group were appreciated by up to 300 people who enjoyed the fine summer’s day. Many informative labels and signs told the visitors of the flora, history, and some of the weed and animal pest threats to the swamp.

The cleared track will possibly be used in the future for other organised walks but can now perform its main function of allowing good access to bait lines and trap lines in the reserve.

With tomtit presumably having made their way along the bush corridor from the Cascades and now established in the reserve, robins sighted in several places nearby, and kokako having been radio- tracked at the reser ve, it is evident how effective the corridor is already.

Further predator control measures at the reserve, and if possible along the Buffer Zone, will only enhance this and may one day lead to species such as pateke, brown teal, being translocated.

For the opportunity to hear and see our wonderful diverse ranges, and to go on the Walking Waitakere Wednesday Walks series, please email me on: kaylindley@xtra.co.nz.

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am now brushing on 60 years old and still going strong.

Despite the enor mous punishment they have suffered, my legs appear to be as good as they were 40 years ago. Thank goodness for that!

I attribute this very much to my barefoot childhood which has endowed me with strong feet. My strong feet come from a barefoot childhood in rural Putaruru, walking and running free over rough paddocks and gravel pavements.

As much as I could, the barefoot tradition has been continued with the next generation of Mollers; but it has

Above: The author outside the family home in Putaruru, circa 1960.

Below: Putarura High School X-Country circa 1969. Lorraine Moller chasing down Kim Webby (all running barefoot).

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by running barefoot in not been so easy. Children running about barefoot, especially during winter, is frowned upon nowadays. I could not tell you how many times a mother has grasped the feet of one of my barefoot buggybound children and exclaimed "Oh, you poor wee thing; your feet are so cold!"

(By the way, the feet and toes are always several degrees colder than the rest of the body, due to their distance from the core. The temperature differential is also one of the ways the body dissipates excess heat). The feet and hands are the body's radiator) Going barefoot, as a child, allows the feet, including the toes, to grow to their natural length and width without restriction. The ligaments, tendons, muscles, bones and joints respond to bare foot walking and running on natural surfaces by growing stronger and more resilient. The skin and gristle of the foot pad thickens and hardens, giving a foot that is resistant to blistering and bruising.

These adaptations to barefoot use are hugely beneficial for the adult when embarking on a fitness challenge such as the Oxfam 100km.

My advice to par ents: parents: Keep baby out of stockings Do what I did: I cut the ends out of all of our babies "stretch and grow" stockings. If socks were ever worn, I ensured they were oversize and loose so as not to cramp the toes and shoes were never tight. I ensured that bedding did not compress their tiny toes.

Have your children run about barefoot at home Always. Including when out in the yard.

Make holidays barefoot time Holidays are a wonderful opportunity to run about barefoot and harden the feet. As the skin hardens, those annoying prickles become less of an issue. The beach is the perfect place for barefoot activities.

Encourage your school to allow barefoot activities Good luck with this one! But please try. Okay, most schools I know of have more or less banned barefoot in the playground for ridiculous health and safety reasons such as a life-threatening stubbed toe.

Part of the problem is that even so much as a grazed knee must be reported and the parents advised. It boils down to being a whole lot of administrative fuss and bother that schools would rather be without.

But why can't children take their shoes off while in the class room?

The excuse for not allowing or encouraging such a practice is that the smell will be overwhelming and, besides, all those shoes lying around are a safety hazard and children will be forever misplacing them. I know these are feeble excuses; but this is the way things are going -

Above: Myra, Mary Ann and Kelvin Moller with Olympian, Rod Dixon. Shortly after running a mile race - Bare foot, of course!

administrative expedience before health. Resist!

It is easier nowadays to just let things be and have your children grow up without ever getting mud and sand between their toes. But please be persistent and strong. Your children will thank your for your trouble - eventually!

Below: Feet on left of a child raised barefoot. Feet on right of an adult raised in stockings and shoes. Note the adult's bent and shortened toes and weak arches.

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Gary Hauseman who works part of the year at Lake Powell Resort near Page, Arizona, in the USA is walking the world and so far has walked about 24,649 miles across USA, Europe, United Kingdom, Central America, South America, Australia and New Zealand. He has about 14,000 miles to walk across Asia, Africa and South America to break the Guiness Book World Record of 38,000 miles set by Arthur Blessit. Here are his experiences walking from:

Near Safford Arizona to Nogales Az 202 miles, 25,205 Total World Walk Miles.

Headed southeast now on route 70 through the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation. Lots of Salt Cedars turning yellow along the Gila River.

Mostly high desert at about 3000 feet with very few towns or houses.

Once every 30 or 40 miles there will be a small town with a few houses and maybe a trading post\gas station if I am lucky for water and food. Passed through the town of Geronimo, no houses I could see, just an old ruined trading post and a couple of old junked mobile homes. Must be a ghost town now. There was an Indian hot springs I wanted to go to listed on the map just off the main road, but when I asked a local about it, he said it was taboo because a of recent murder there.

Into the big town of Safford which is mostly cotton fields on the north side of the road, and strip malls and houses on the south side of the road. Pretty dusty in the winter when the fields lie fallow and the wind blows. Stopped to see my step-son Justice at Eastern Arizona College and took a look see at the campus and around town.

Down south now towards Wilcox and Interstate 10 along route 191. Pretty desert with no towns or gas for a long way. I always like these long stretches of road where it’s quiet and peaceful with hardly any noise or distractions. Cars go by once in a while but I pretty much tune them out and just kind of day dream about ideas I have, places I have been, and things I want to do or build.

I had to walk along I-10 for about 50 miles past Wilcox and Benson till I could get on a local road again. Kind of noisy with all the big trucks, but after a while I tune them out to. They used to have signs at the entrances in Arizona that said "bicycles and walkers use shoulders�. But now they have a "no walkers" sign and "bicycles use shoulder" sign. But I have talked to several DPS Officers and they all say walkers can use the shoulder if there is no frontage road or alternate road. They just do not want you hitch hiking on the interstate.

Up and over the Dragoon Mountains pass where Cochise

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Safford He would then head south into the mountains called Chohise's Stonghold, where the army had a hard time finding and defeating him. Cochise eventually made peace with the army and signed a treaty with the government. They were able to stay on a reservation here in Arizona unlike Geronimo and his Apaches who fought the army till they surrendered in Mexico and got sent to Florida to die in the hot, humid, malaria ridden swamps.

Stopped at "The Thing" gas station/store/tourist trap to fill my water, camp overnight in the desert , and use the wi-fi . They have about 20 big road signs to try and entice you to find out what the mystery of the thing is.

Only $1 to go in their museum and see, but somebody told me it is just a dried up fake mummy and some old western antiques. But I always like to go in to these stores, buy a real cup of coffee , and use the rest room to take a quick washcloth bath with hot water and soap.

I usually sleep a lot better if I am clean.

One man stopped to chat and turned out to be someone I worked with at Yellowstone National Park back in 1985 and 86. Nice place to work in the summer and every once in a while I run into somebody I used to work with at different national parks. He gave me a bag of instant mashed potatoes to add to my ramen noodles.

Blue Bus Barb stopped to chat and gave me a nice book she had a short story in. "Female Nomads and Friends" by Rita Golden Gelman.

Interesting book with lots of short stories of ladies unusual travels around the world. I think I might use that idea and include some short stories of other world walkers when I finally get around to getting my book published. "How to quit your job and walk or bike the world on $5 a day" will be my title hopefully. Will try and see if I can E-Publish it this summer with Amazon Create Space E-publishing.

While I was talking to Barb, Roger pulled over and handed me a take out container of Greek food and told me it was still hot from the restaurant. So I pulled out my white bucket and sat down for a nice hot Greek dinner while I chatted with Barb.

My body is still feeling pretty good and ambling along at about 15 miles a day. Right ankle is still a little sore, but does not really slow me down much. The big blister on my left food popped and hardened up, but then I developed a blister on my right foot in the same place, right on the ball of the foot.

So I am kind of just taking it easy and taking a lot of breaks to write in my journal, read, take naps, talk to people, and just enjoy myself. I still use "Udderly Smooth Udder Cream" on my feet and almost never get blisters. I think my sore right ankle changed my gait and caused the two blisters.

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the World they saw me in the morning paper , so I picked up a copy and read all about myself. I think they have an online edition where you can check the November 11,2012 edition for my article.

While I was in Patagonia another local newspaperman interviewed me for their paper also. I had stopped for coffee in the Stagecoach Inn and the owner came over to chat and bought me breakfast. He called a friend to interview me and gave me the name of a friend in Nogales where I could store my Runabout Stroller while I took a Christmas Break to be with family up in Page Az. Patagonia is a nice little town with lots of friendly people. Really nice local radio station, nice monthly newspaper, and a neat park that runs the whole length of the main part of town between the two main streets. Looks like they have lots of festivals in the park with music, arts and crafts, farmers markets, and other gatherings. They have a neat butterfly garden planted to attract butterflies and hummingbirds.

On to Nogales Az where I stopped at a locals house that let me store my stroller in a shed. Took the bus up to Page Az to spend Christmas with family. Will be back walking again hopefully in three or four weeks.

Having a nice Christmas break with family. Three nights in Las Vegas for Christmas, two nights at Brian Head ski resort for New Years Eve and snowboarding , and lots of work around the house and getting my raised gardening beds layered with dirt, leaves, horse manure , and covered with black plastic for spring.

Got a nice package in the mail from Australia the day before I headed back to walking. I picked up a really nice Adapt A Cap in Australia four years ago while I was walking. The material they use is rated at 50 SPF protection against the sun. The hat is basically just a wide brim with a large cloth bandana that wraps around your whole face, neck, and throat to protect you against the sun. I used to use a large bandana under my hat before I got a Adapt A Cap. My hat was getting thin on top with a few holes that I had to patch up.

So I checked on line for the company that makes them and emailed them about buying a new Adapt A Cap. They got back to me and said they had read my website and were real impressed with my world walk. They offered me a free hat, long pants, and long sleeved shirt all made out of the same SPF 50(they call it UPF 50 material in Australia). So they sent me two hats, two shirts, and one pair of long pants.

Very comfy and very visible on the road as one shirt is neon green, and they sent me a neon green hat and a neon orange hat.

They want me to write a product review for their website. So check out their website at www.sunprotection.com.au or google Adapt A Cap in Australia. Great line of sun protection hats and clothes. Since the hat is soft material it works good on hot days to wet down a washcloth and lay it down on top of my head.

I use a headband to keep the wash cloth from blowing off, and I can add water to it as it dries out with my bicycle water bottle easily. Keeps my head nice and cool as the water evaporates.

Finally getting the hang of taking photos www.walkingnewzealand.co.nz

Above: Gary in the new 50 SPF protection gear.

with my new IPhone 5 and posting them on my facebook page and adding them to my articles. So you should start seeing more photos of my walk.

From Nogales I will walk north up to Tucson, then west for Ajo, Gila Bend, Parker, Lake Havasu City, Kingman, Las Vegas Nevada, St George Utah, Fredonia Arizona, and back to Page Arizona by mid March. Email me with questions or comments by clicking on reply or from my website at www.walkingman.org .

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Coming Events

NEW ZEALAND EVENTS FEBRUARY 2013 2 Backcountry Runner Kaweka Mountain Marathon Marathon, 28km & 15km, Hastings 4 Pakuranga 5km Fun Run, Manukau 4 Speakers Corner 5km Fun Run/Walk, Browns Bay, Auckland 4 Northcote Tavern Run Run/Walk, 5km, North Shore, Auckland 5 Manawatu Striders Super Seven Series, 7km, 3km, Palmerston North 5 Lifestyle Sports Wellington Waterfront 5km, Run/Walk, Wellington 5 Nelson Striders 6pm Summer Road Series, 6km, Nelson 6 Waimea Harriers Summer 5km Series, Nelson

Sunday 17 March 2013

21km & 10km Fun walk/run Join the 2013 pilgrimage to NZ’s most fabulous Martinborough fun walk or run vineyard experience.

SPO T PRIZES FOR F ANCY DRESS SPOT FANCY

Live entertainment and Delicious refreshments around the course and at the finish line in Martinborough’s town square.

Book Online

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6 Owai 3km in the Park, Mt Roskill, Auckland 6 Porirua 5km Series, Porirua 6 Waitakere 5km Fun Run/Walk, Henderson, Auckland 7 Stirling Sports Half Marathon, Auckland 7 The Karhu Trots 5km Run/Walk Series, Auckland 7 10k in the Auckland Domain, 10km & 3km, Auckland 9 Buller Gorge Marathon & Half Marathon, Westport 10 TransWorks Pukekohe Half Marathon & 6km, Pukekohe 10 BNZ Surf to City, Invercargill 10 Botany Town Centre Summer Fun 5km & 10kn, Botany Town Centre, Auckland 10 Westfield Albany Lakes Summer Series, 10km, 5km & 2km, Albany, Auckland 11 Pakuranga 5km Fun Run, Manukau 11 Northcote Tavern Run Run/Walk, 5km, North Shore, Auckland 11 Speakers Corner 5km Fun Run/Walk, Browns Bay, Auckland 12 Lifestyle Sports Wellington Waterfront 5km, Run/Walk, Wellington 12 Manawatu Striders Super Seven Series, 7km, 3km, Palmerston North 13 Waimea Harriers Summer 5km Series, Nelson 13 Owai 3km in the Park, Mt Roskill, Auckland 13 Porirua 5km Series, Porirua 13 Waitakere 5km Fun Run/Walk, Henderson, Auckland 14 The Karhu Trots 5km Run/Walk Series, Auckland 14 10k in the Auckland Domain, 10km & 3km, Auckland 16 Kathmandu Riverrun Trail Series,Half Marathon, 10km & 5km, Clutha Track 17 AMI Round the Bays, Half Marathon & 7km, Wellington 17 Sterling Sports Half Marathon & 11km, Auckland 17 Northcote Tavern Run Run/Walk, 5km, North Shore, Auckland 18 Pakuranga 5km Fun Run, Manukau 18 Speakers Corner 5km Fun Run/Walk, Browns Bay, Auckland 19 Nelson Striders 6pm Summer road Series, 6km, Nelson 19 Manawatu Striders Super Seven Series, 7km, 3km, Palmerston North 19 Lifestyle Sports Wellington Waterfront 5km,

Run/Walk, Wellington 20 Porirua 5km Series, Porirua 20 Waimea Harriers Summer 5km Series, Nelson 20 Owai 3km in the Park, Mt Roskill, Auckland 20 Waitakere 5km Fun Run/Walk, Henderson, Auckland 21 The Karhu Trots 5km Run/Walk Series, Auckland 21 10k in the Auckland Domain, 10km & 3km, Auckland 23 A Run to Remember,12km, Christchurch 23 New Balance Great Lake Relay, Taupo 23 North Shore Coastal Challenge, 22km, 17km & 11km, Takapuna, Auckland 23 Flock Hill Station Trail Run, 25km, Canterbury 23 Bedrock 50 52km Oxford, Canterbury 23 Pure South Shotover Moonlight Mountain Marathon, 10m & 5km, Queenstown 24 Weedons Summer Stampede, 12km & 5km, Christchurch 24 Malvern Community Fun Run, 12km Darfield 25 Pakuranga 5km Fun Run, Manukau 25 Coastal Challenge, Devonport, Auckland 25 Speakers Corner 5km Fun Run/Walk, Browns Bay, Auckland 25 Northcote Tavern Run Run/Walk, 5km, North Shore, Auckland 26 Lifestyle Sports Wellington Waterfront 5km, Run/Walk, Wellington 26 Nelson Striders 6pm Summer Road Series, 6km, Nelson 26 Manawatu Striders Super Seven Series, 7km, 3km, Palmerston North 27 Waimea Harriers Summer 5km Series, Nelson 27 Owai 3km in the Park, Mt Roskill, Auckland 27 Porirua 5km Series, Porirua 27 Waitakere 5km Fun Run/Walk, Henderson, Auckland 27 Walking Waitakere, Mokoroa Falls, Waitakere, Auckland 28 The Karhu Trots 5km Run/Walk Series, Auckland 28 10k in the Auckland Domain, 10km & 3km, Auckland

MARCH 2013 3 Westfield Albany Lakes Summer Series, 10km, 5km & 2km, Albany, Auckland 3 Bayleys Mountain to Surf Marathon, New Plymouth 4 Pakuranga 5km Fun Run, Manukau

Davenport Service Centre Half Marathon & Pahiatua Travel Centre 10km Fun Run & Walk Saturday March 23rd 2013 Hosted by Bush Harrier Club

Pahiatua Walkers start 9am and runners 10am

Prize money if you break the existing course records in the Half Marathon for runners and walkers.

Great place and spot prizes.

Come over to Bush and experience our country hospitality!

Information and entry forms:

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Coming events 4 Northcote Tavern Run Run/Walk, 5km, North Shore, Auckland 4 Speakers Corner 5km Fun Run/Walk, Browns Bay, Auckland 5 Lifestyle Sports Wellington Waterfront 5km, Run/Walk, Wellington 5 Nelson Striders 6pm Summer road Series, 6km, Nelson 6 Porirua 5km Series, Porirua 6 Waitakere 5km Fun Run/Walk, Henderson, Auckland 6 Owai 3km in the Park, Mt Roskill, Auckland 6 Waimea Harriers Summer 5km Series, Nelson 7 The Karhu Trots 5km Run/Walk Series, Auckland 7 10k in the Auckland Domain, 10km & 3km, Auckland 9 Motatapu Arrowtown.com Miners Trail Run/ Walk, Glencoe Station, Arrowtown 9 Motatapu Icebreaker Off Road Marathon, Arrowtown 9 Tararua Mountain Race,35km, Kaitoke, Upper Hutt 9 The Colville Connection Marathon, Half Marathon, 10km & 5km, Colville Coromandel 10 Ports of Auckland Round the Bays, 8.4km, Auckland 11 Northcote Tavern Run Run/Walk, 5km, North Shore, Auckland 11 Speakers Corner 5km Fun Run/Walk, Browns Bay, Auckland 11 Pakuranga 5km Fun Run, Manukau 12 Lifestyle Sports Wellington Waterfront 5km, Run/Walk, Wellington 13 Owai 3km in the Park, Mt Roskill, Auckland 13 Porirua 5km Series, Porirua 13 Waimea Harriers Summer 5km Series, Nelson 13 Waitakere 5km Fun Run/Walk, Henderson, Auckland 14 The Karhu Trots 5km Run/Walk Series, Auckland 14 10k in the Auckland Domain, 10km & 3km, Auckland 16 Bombay Pioneer Settlers Fun Run/Walk, Half Marathon, 10km & 5km, Bombay, Auckland 16 Kaiteriteri Gold Half Marathon, Kaiteriteri Beach, Nelson 16 Rotorua Walking Festival, Marathon, Half Marathon & 10km, Rotorua 17 Rotorua Walking Festival, 10km, 20km & 30km, Rotorua 17 Round the Vines, Marinborough 17 Skechers Coatsville Classic Half marathon, Coastsville, Auckland

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17 New World Stadium to Surf 10km, Dunedin 18 Pakuranga 5km Fun Run, Manukau 18 Northcote Tavern Run Run/Walk, 5km, North Shore, Auckland 18 Speakers Corner 5km Fun Run/Walk, Browns Bay, Auckland 19 Lifestyle Sports Wellington Waterfront 5km, Run/Walk, Wellington 20 Waimea Harriers Summer 5km Series, Nelson 20 Porirua 5km Series, Porirua 20 Owai 3km in the Park, Mt Roskill, Auckland 20 Waitakere 5km Fun Run/Walk, Henderson, Auckland 21 The Karhu Trots 5km Run/Walk Series, Auckland 21 10k in the Auckland Domain, 10km & 3km, Auckland 23 Partners Life Dual Marathon, Half Marathon, 10km & 6km, Auckland 23 The Goat Adventure Run, 17km, Tauranga 23 The Dual, Motutapu Auckland 23 Te Houtaewa Challenge, 90 Mile Beach 24 Johnstone Electrical Bridge to Bridge Half Marathon & 8.5km, Balclutha 25 Pakuranga 5km Fun Run, Manukau 25 Northcote Tavern Run Run/Walk, 5km, North Shore, Auckland

25 Speakers Corner 5km Fun Run/Walk, Browns Bay, Auckland 26 Lifestyle Sports Wellington Waterfront 5km, Run/Walk, Wellington 27 Porirua 5km Series, Porirua 27 Waimea Harriers Summer 5km Series, Nelson 27 Waitakere 5km Fun Run/Walk, Henderson, Auckland 27 Walking Waitakere, Rangitoto Island, Auckland 27 Owai 3km in the Park, Mt Roskill, Auckland 28 The Karhu Trots 5km Run/Walk Series, Auckland 28 10k in the Auckland Domain, 10km & 3km, Auckland

APRIL 2013 1 Pakuranga 5km Fun Run, Manukau 1 Speakers Corner 5km Fun Run/Walk, Browns Bay, Auckland 2 Lifestyle Sports Wellington Waterfront 5km, Run/Walk, Wellington 3 Waitakere 5km Fun Run/Walk, Henderson, Auckland 4 The Karhu Trots 5km Run/Walk Series, Auckland 4 10k in the Auckland Domain, 10km & 3km, Auckland

GREAT FOREST EVENTS 2013 WAITARERE FOREST, LEVIN

SATURDAY 13th APRIL 2013 NZ No. 1 OFF ROAD EVENTS Two circuit Marathon course run/ walk Half Marathon course run/walk 10km & 5km fun run/walk

Medals for all finishers Early Bird Entry Prize Enter by Friday 29 March 2013

Visit our website: www.greatforest.org.nz Email: events@greatforest.org.nz Phone 06 368 2749

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Coming Events 4-7 Mangawhai Walking Festival, Mangawhai 6 Arrowsmith High Country Marathon, 17km & 8km, Ashburton 6 Oxfam Trailwalker 100km, Taupo 7 Run Auckland Series, 5km & 10km, Remuera, Auckland 7 Omaha Classic Run/Walk, 10km, 8km, 5km & 2km, Matakana Coast 8 Pakuranga 5km Fun Run, Manukau 8 Speakers Corner 5km Fun Run/Walk, Browns Bay, Auckland 10 Waitakere 5km Fun Run/Walk, Henderson, Auckland 13 Kathmandu Riverrun Trail Series, Half Marathon, 10km & 5km, Outlet Track 13 Great Forest, Marathon, Half Marathon 10km & 5km, Waitarere Beach, Levin 15 Pakuranga 5km Fun Run, Manukau 17 Waitakere 5km Fun Run/Walk, Henderson, Auckland 21 Orewa Beach Half Marathon, 10.5km & 5km, Orewa 22 Pakuranga 5km Fun Run, Manukau 24 Walking Waitakere, Plant Identification Walk, Waitakere, Auckland 24 Waitakere 5km Fun Run/Walk, Henderson, Auckland 27 Bush to Beach7km, 22km, & 9km, Whitianga 27 Cape Brett Challenge 37km, 17km & 10km, Te Rawhiti, Bay of Islands 28 Run Auckland Series, 5km & 10km, Pakuranga, Auckland 28 Cheviot Hill Run, Half Marathon, 14km & 7km, Cheviot 29 Pakuranga 5km Fun Run, Manukau

MAY 2013 1 Waitakere 5km Fun Run/Walk, Henderson, Auckland 4 Lion Foundation Rotorua Marathon, Rotorua 4 T42 Marathon, Central Plateau 5 Lions Club Dunedin South, Taieri Gorge Rail Walk, 8km, Dunedin

8 Waitakere 5km Fun Run/Walk, Henderson, Auckland 11 Saint Clair Vineyard Half Marathon, Blenheim 12 Sri Chinmoy Auckland Mid-Year Series, Half Marathon, 10km & 5km, Auckland 15 Waitakere 5km Fun Run/Walk, Henderson, Auckland 18 Kathmandu Riverrun Trail Series,Half Marathon, 10km & 5km, Glendhu Bay Track 19 Run Auckland Series, 5km & 10km, Pakuranga, Auckland 22 Waitakere 5km Fun Run/Walk, Henderson, Auckland 23 Armstrong Motor Group Wellington Marathon, Wellington 25 Bvouac Outdoors Mt Isobel Challenge, 8km, Hanmer Springs 29 Waitakere 5km Fun Run/Walk, Henderson, Auckland 29 Walking Waitakere, Karamatura Farm Loop Waitakere, Auckland

JUNE 2013 2 Christchurch Airport Marathon, Half Marathon, 10km & 3km, Christchurch 2 Aurora Handicap Marathon, Wellington 5 Waitakere 5km Fun Run/Walk, Henderson, Auckland 9 Run Auckland Series, 5km & 10km, Northcote Point, Auckland 12 Waitakere 5km Fun Run/Walk, Henderson, Auckland 16 Sri Chinmoy Auckland Mid-Year Series, Half Marathon, 10km & 5km, Auckland 19 Waitakere 5km Fun Run/Walk, Henderson, Auckland 26 Walking Waitakere, Whites Track, North Piha, Auckland 26 Waitakere 5km Fun Run/Walk, Henderson, Auckland 30 Run Auckland Series, 5km & 10km, Western Springs, Auckland

JULY 2013

3 Waitakere 5km Fun Run/Walk, Henderson, Auckland 10 Waitakere 5km Fun Run/Walk, Henderson, Auckland 14 Sri Chinmoy Auckland Mid-Year Series, Half Marathon, 10km & 5km, Auckland 17 Waitakere 5km Fun Run/Walk, Henderson, Auckland 21 Run Auckland Series, 5km & 10km, Botany, Auckland 24 Waitakere 5km Fun Run/Walk, Henderson, Auckland 31 Waitakere 5km Fun Run/Walk, Henderson, Auckland

AUGUST 2013 4 Sri Chinmoy Auckland Mid-Year Series, Half Marathon, 10km & 5km, Auckland 7 Waitakere 5km Fun Run/Walk, Henderson, Auckland 14 Waitakere 5km Fun Run/Walk, Henderson, Auckland 18 5 Bridges Marathon, Wellington 18 Woodbourne Half Marathon, 10km & 5km, Woodbourne, Blenheim 21 Waitakere 5km Fun Run/Walk, Henderson, Auckland 28 Waitakere 5km Fun Run/Walk, Henderson, Auckland

SEPTEMBER 2013 1 Broderick North Shore Marathon, 10km & 5km, Takapuna, Auckland 4 Waitakere 5km Fun Run/Walk, Henderson, Auckland 7 Mizuno Kinloch Off-Road Challenge, Taupo 8 Cadbury Dunedin Marathon, Dunedin 11 Waitakere 5km Fun Run/Walk, Henderson, Auckland 14 Lydiard Legend Marathon, Waitakere Ranges, Auckland 15 Sri Chinmoy Auckland Mid-Year Series, Half Marathon, 10km & 5km, Auckland 18 Waitakere 5km Fun Run/Walk, Henderson, Auckland 25 Waitakere 5km Fun Run/Walk, Henderson, Auckland

18th Annual Woodville Lions Club

OCTOBER 2013

Manawatu Gorge Track & Tunnel Walk

2 Waitakere 5km Fun Run/Walk, Henderson, Auckland 9 Waitakere 5km Fun Run/Walk, Henderson, Auckland 12 Great Barrier Wharf to Wharf Marathon & Half Marathon, Great Barrier Island 13 Wairarapa Country Marathon, Masterton 12 Xterra Trail Challenge Marathon, Waihi 16 Waitakere 5km Fun Run/Walk, Henderson, Auckland 23 Waitakere 5km Fun Run/Walk, Henderson, Auckland 27 Marlborough Marathon, Blenheim 30 Waitakere 5km Fun Run/Walk, Henderson, Auckland

A Sunday in April/May 2013 See COMING EVENTS page on Walking New Zealand website after March 31 to find exact date of event. Website: www.walkingnewzealand.co.nz

Start times: 9.15am, 10.00am, 10.45am at Ashhurst Domain SH3, Ashhurst Approximately 8kms 1 1/2 - 2 1/2 hours walking time

Essential: Moderate fitness • Sturdy footwear (preferably boots) • Wet weather clothing and a strong TORCH.

No gate sales. Minimium age 10 years

Funds raised go to Cancer Care and local charities

Strickly limited tickets (This popular event has sold out every year)

Tickets available from the following I-Sites:Tararua (Woodville), Dannevirke, Pahiatua, Hastings, Masterton, Palmerston North, Feilding, Levin and Paraparaumu

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NOVEMBER 2013 3 Adidas Auckland Marathon, Auckland 6 Waitakere 5km Fun Run/Walk, Henderson, Auckland 9 The Taniwha, Waikato River 13 Waitakere 5km Fun Run/Walk, Henderson, Auckland

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Coming Events 16 The Molesworth Run -Relay, Hanmer Springs 20 Waitakere 5km Fun Run/Walk, Henderson, Auckland 23 Speight’s West Coaster, Auckland 27 Waitakere 5km Fun Run/Walk, Henderson, Auckland

DECEMBER 2013 14 Wanganui 3 Bridges Marathon, Wanganui 14 Hanmer Springs Holiday Homes Alpine Marathon Hanmer Springs

OVERSEAS EVENTS FEBRUARY 2013 6 Sunset Series, 4km & 8km, The Tan, Kings Domain, Vic, Australia 9 Caboolture Historical Village Dusk to Dawn Marathon, Caboolture, Qld, Australia 10 Brazilian Butterfly Queen of the Lake 5km & 10km, Melbourne, Vic, Australia 20 Sunset Series, 4km & 8km, Melbourne Zoo Vic, Australia 24 Orange Colour City Ruinning Festival, Marathon, Half Marathon, 10km & 5km, Orange, NSW, Australia 24 Tokyo Marathon, Tokyo, Japan

COMING EVENTS We obtain information for this column from a large number of sources up to two years in advance and sometimes there are date changes etc that occur. If there are any changes in dates etc, we ask clubs to advise us direct.

24 Latrobe Health Centre River Run 5km & 10km, Geelong, Vic, Australia 24 First National Garry Nash Wangaratta Marathon, Wangaratta, Vic, Australia

MARCH 2013 3 Paris Half Marathon, Paris, France 9 Six Foot Track Marathon, Blue Mountain, NSW, Australia 6 Sunset Series, 4km & 8km, Princes Park, Carlton, Vic, Australia 10 King Island Imperial 20, 32km Coast to Coast, King Island, Tas, Australia 16 Roller Coaster Run, Mt Dandenong, Vic, Australia 15-16 IML Two Day Walk, Gilboa, Israel 17 2013 Trail Running in Far North Queensland 18km Barron Gorge, Qld, Australia 24 Twilight Running Festival, Half Marathon & 10km, Brisbane, Qld, Australia 24 Great Volcanic Mounatin Challenge, Marathon, Half Marathon & 10km, Orange, NSW, Australia

APRIL 2013 6-7 IML Two Day Walk, Canberra, ACT, Australia 7 Paris Marathon, Paris, France 7 Newcastle Herald Hill to Harbour Haldf Marathon & 10km, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 7 The Geelong Half Marathon, Geelong, Vic, Australia 7 Hill to Harbour Half Marathon, 10km & 2km, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 14 3 Waters Marathon, Half Marathon, Bunbury, Australia

14 Canberra Marathon, Canberra, ACT, Australia 14 Run Adelaide Half Marathon, 10km & 5km, Adelaide, SA, Australia 14 Southern Charity Challenge, Half Marathon, 15km, 35km, & 60km, Goolwa, SA, Australia 21 2013 Trail Running in Far North Queensland 34km, Black Snake, Qld, Australia 27-28 IML Two Day Walk, Boras, Sweden 28 Mt Mee Classic Trail Marathon, Brisbane, Qld, Australia

MAY 2013 4-5 IML Two Day Walk, Blankenberge, Belgium 4-5 100 or 50km Team Challenge, Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia 5 Stamford Financial Hilly Half Marathon, Hamilton Island, Australia 10-12 IML ThreeDay Walk,Yatsushiro, Japan 11-12 IML Two Day Walk, Wellingborough, Eng;and 9-12 IML Four Day Walk, Chantonnay, France 18 Great Wall Marathon & Half Marathon, China 18-19 IML Two Day Walk, Dalian, China 19 Great Ocean Road Real Estate Marathon, Great Ocean Road, Vic, Australia 19 SMC Road Race Series, Sydney, NSW, Australia 25-26 Warwick Pentath Run, Warwick, Qld, Australia 25-26 IML Two Day Walk, Diekirch, Luxembourg 26 Jacob’s Creek Barossa Marathon, Barossa Valley, SA, Australia

2013 Lions Club Dunedin South

Taieri Gorge Rail Walk A unique opportunity Spectacular Scenery

SUNDAY 5th MAY 2013 Walk approximately 8km, and up to 2 hours; includes three tunnels five bridges /viaducts.

Leave by train from Dunedin Railway Station 9am.

Walk from Flat Stream to Deep Stream.

Return to Dunedin by train arriving at Station at 3.00pm approximate.

Buffet Car operating Essential: moderate fitness; substantial footwear; all weather clothing; a good torch; water and snacks

FARE only $65.00 PER PERSON Recommended as not suitable for children but if children do attend they must be closely supervised by an accompanying adult

* Thursday 4th April 2013 * Friday 5th April 2013 * Saturday 6th April 2013 * Sunday 7th April 2013

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Coming Events

JUNE 2013 2 Stanwell Power Station Rocky River Run, Half Marathon,10km & 5km, Rockhampton, Qld, Australia 2 BMA Mackay Marina Run, Half Marathon, 8km & 5km, Mackay, Qld, Australia 8-9 IML Two Day Walk, Bern-Belp, Switerland 9 Macleay River Marathon, South West Rocks, NSW, Australia 16 Pertyh Marathon, Perth, WA, Australia 16 Glow Worm Trail Marathon, Newnes, NSW, Australia 16 Traralgon Marathon, Traralgon, Vic, Australia 28-30 3 Marathons in 3 Days, Cairns, Qld, Australia 29-30 IML Two Day Walk, Viborg, Denmark 30 Pichi Marathon, Port Augusta, SA, Australia

JULY 2013 4-7 IML Four Day Walk, Castlebar, Ireland 6-7 Gold Coast Airport Marathon, Half Marathon & 10km, Surfers Padadise, Qld, Australia 7 Grealdton Marathon, Geraldton, WA, Australia 8 Big Red Dash, Simpson Desert, Qld, Australia 14 Gold Rush Marathon, Babinda Boulders, Qld, Australia 16-19 IML Four Day Walk, Nijmegen, The Netherlands 20 2013 Trail Running in Far North Queensland 45km Mt Haig Marathon, Qld, Australia 21 Bush Capital Bush Marathon, Canberra, Australia 21 Winery Running Festival Hunter Valley, NSW, Australia 27 Australian Outback Marathon, Half Marathon, 11km & 6km, Yulara, NT, Australia

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AUGUST 2013 4 Townsville Running Festival, Marathon, Half Marathon, 10km & 5km, Townsville, Qld, Australia 4 Mizuno Brisbane Marathon, Brisbane, Qld, Australia 9-11 IML Three Day Walk, Vaasa, Finland 18 Wagga Wagga Trail Marathon, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia 18 Alice Springs Community Bank Marathon, NT, Australia 24-25 IML Two Day Walk, Verdal, Norway 25 7 Sunshine Coast Marathon, Sunshine Coast, Qld, Australia 25 Shepparton Marathon, Shepparton, Vic, Australia 25 2013 Trail Running in Far North Queensland, 64km Kuranda to Port Douglas, ultra, Qld, Australia 25 Perth City to Surf Marathon, WA, Australia 25 The Athletes Foot Adelaide Parklands Marathon, Adelaide, SA, Australia

10 Deep Space Mountain Marathon, Canberra, Act, Australia

DECEMBER 2013 28 Summit Mt Kosciusko Marathon, Snowy Mountains, NSW, Australia

COMING EVENTS We obtain information for this column from a large number of sources up to two years in advance and sometimes there are date changes etc that occur. If there are any changes in dates etc, we ask clubs to advise us direct.

Nordic Walking

SEPTEMBER 2013 1 The Ross Marathon, Tasmania, Australia 7-8 IML Two Day Walk, Arenzano, Italy 13-15 IML Three Day Walk, Seefeld, Austria 22 Blackmores Sydney Running Festival, Sydney, NSW, Australia 27 Brooks Rottnest Marathon, WA, Australia 28 Lap the Lake Marathon, Penrith, NSW, Australia 28-29 IML Two Day Walk, Brno, Czech Republic

OCTOBER 2013 5-6 IML Two Day Walk, Fulda, Germany 6 Toowoomba Marathon, Toowoomba, Qld, Australia 12 Fitzroy Falls FireTrail Marathon, Southern Highlands, NSW, Australia 13 2013 Trail Running in Far North Queensland Twin Bridges Half Marathon, Qld, Australia 19 Bribie Beach Dash, Bribie Island, Qld, Australia 19-20 IML Two Day Walk, Arlington, USA 19-20 IML Two Day Walk, Barcelona, Spain 26-27 IML Two Day Walk, Won-Ju

NOVEMBER 2013 2-4 IML Two Day Walk, Higashimatsuyama 3 Port of Portland 3-Bays Marathon, Portland, Vic, Australia 4 Carcoar Cup, Carcoar, NSW, Australia 9 Canegrowers Great Barrier Reef Marathon, Port Douglas, Qld, Australia 9-10 IML Two Day Walk, Taipei, Taiwan

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CONTENTS for previous 14 issues FEBRUARY 2013 181 4 Walk Talk 6 Great Walks: The Milford Track the finest walk in the world 10 Great Walks: The Kepler Track - an adventure above the clouds 13 Great Walks: Aurora australis -Looking for the Southern Lights 16 Overseas Walks: Italian delight - Two weeks of walking, wine and food 18 Digital Photo Contest winners 20 Event: Mangawhai Walking Weekend 22 Event: Amazing adventure for KiwiSeniors 24 Event: Shouting out about the Bay of Islands Walking weekend 26 Overseas Walks: The TakineTrail - a rainforest paradise 30 Overseas Walks: Alsace walk has something of the feel of a pilgrimage 35 The Country and Outdoor Recreation Calendar 36 Overseas walks and tours 37 Overseas walks and tours 38 New Zealand Walks: Walking cavalcades 40 Window on Waitakere: Home grown 41 Health: Not healthy to go on a fat-free diet 42 Long Walk: Walking the World 44 New Zealand coming events 50 Contents for previous 14 issues 51 Weather forecast for February 56 Country Breaks 60 Sterling Sports Half Marathon JANUARY 2013 180 4 Walk Talk 6 New Zealand Walk: Sanctuary of silence 9 Product Marketplace: Summer skin protection 10 Great Walks: The Kepler Track - an adventure above the clouds 13 Great Walks: The Routeburn Track - beautiful beyond words 17 Books: Calling them home, Untamed Coast, 18 Digital Photo Contest winners 20 Overseas Walks: Noosa - a walk in the park 24 Overseas Walks: Noosa National Park - most visited Australian national park 25 Event: A walk for all the family 26 Overseas Walks: The Inca Trail and beyond 29 New Zealand Walk: Solitude on Drift Bay walking track 30 New Zealand Walks: Take a hike and discover Queenstown this summer 34 New Zealand Walk: My idea of a real holiday!

36 Overseas walks and tours 37 Overseas walks and tours 38 New Zealand Walk: New track at Mangawhai 40 Window on Waitakere: Deep mineral mystery 41 Health: Start walking before you get pregnant 42 New Zealand Walk: Schnell Wetlands new walk 43 New Zealand Walks: Untouched tussock on Fairlie alpine country track 44 Event: A shinning response to a stormy day 45 Podiatry: Differences in leg length common 46 New Zealand coming events 51 Weather forecast for January 56 Country Breaks 60 Waiheke Wharf to Wharf DECEMBER 2012 179 4 Walk talk 6 New Zealand walk: Whareama Wonderland!

8 Window on Waitakere: The first Kokako nest in 80 years!

8 New Zealand walk: Secret Art Walk 10 Overseas walks: Australia’s Big 10 14 Great Walks: Whanganui Journey - a personal perspective 17 Books: Exploring Aotearoa 18 Digital Photo Contest winners 20 Overseas walks: Newfoundland - a new global hotspot 22 New Zealand walks: Te Puia Lodge and the hot springs

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26 New Zealand walks: Dargaville groups adventure in Bay of Islands 28 New Zealand walks: Headland Sculpture on the Gulf - a walking event 26 Overseas walk: Alaska, Canada and the bears!

33 Global search for the Great Walker 34 High achievers: Up the river and down the river with the River Queens 36 High achiever: Dan’s 2km triumph 37 Overseas walks and tours 38 Event: Moro Marathon events 40 New Zealand walks: Mangakino - the secret’s out 40 Health: Adrenal fatigue - today no reference in text books 42 New Zealand walks: Great walking in the Wellington region this Summer 44 New Zealand walks: Walking surprises at Tuatapere 45 Podiatry: Socks,socks, socks 46 New Zealand coming events 49 Nordic Walking Calendars 50 Weather forecast for December 50 Event: Damp and wet conditions for marathon entrants 51 Marketplace: Travel size Medicine Kit 52 Directory: Walking groups throughout NZ 56 Country Breaks 60 Pak a Roo Jackets NOVEMBER 2012 178 4 Walk talk 6 New Zealand walk: Albany Lakes Park - a walk after you shop 8 New Zealand walk: Exploring the Heaphy Track - gourmet style 10 Event:Forty walks in Waiheke Walking Festival 12 Macpac has gear for serious and leisure walkers 14 Event: Following in the footsteps of the Marines 16 New Zealand walk: Diverse landscape on K2K walk 18 Digital Photo Contest winners 20 New Zealand walks: Coromandel adventure 24 New Zealand walk: Walk back in history on Kawau Island 24 Cycling tours: Cycle the Alps to Ocean in comfort 26 Overseas walk: The Galapagos Islands of couse 29 Overseas walks and tours 30 Overseas walks: Village to village in Spain’s Moorish Alpujarras 36 New Zealand walks: A planned trip with an element of surprise 38 Event: Stunning weather for Taupo event 40 Marathon prize a fantastic walking holiday in Austria 41 Health: Ways to return to regular exercise after a sickness bout 43 Weather forecast for October 44 New Zealand coming events 48 Nordic Walking Calendars 49 Te Araroa Trail: New section goes under motorway 50 Event: Damp and wet conditions for marathon entrants 52 Directory: Walking groups 56 Country Breaks 60 Napier City Half Marathon OCTOBER 2012 177 4 Walk talk 6 New Zealand walk: Albany Lakes Park - a walk after you shop 8 New Zealand walk: Exploring the Heaphy Track - gourmet style 10 Event:Forty walks in Waiheke Walking Festival 12 Macpac has gear for serious and leisure walkers 14 Event: Following in the footsteps of the Marines 16 New Zealand walk: Diverse landscape on K2K walk 18 Digital Photo Contest winners 20 New Zealand walks: Coromandel adventure 24 New Zealand walk: Walk back in history on Kawau Island 24 Cycling tours: Cycle the Alps to Ocean in comfort

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26 Overseas walk: The Galapagos Islands of couse 29 Overseas walks and tours 30 Overseas walks: Village to village in Spain’s Moorish Alpujarras 36 New Zealand walks: A planned trip with an element of surprise 38 Event: Stunning weather for Taupo event 40 Marathon prize a fantastic walking holiday in Austria 41 Health: Ways to return to regular exercise after a sickness bout 43 Weather forecast for October 44 New Zealand coming events 46 Overseas coming events 48 Nordic Walking Calendars 49 Te Araroa Trail: New section goes under motorway 50 Event: Damp and wet conditions for marathon 52 Directory: Walking groups 56 Country Breaks 60 Napier City Half Marathon SEPTEMBER 2012 176 4 Walk talk 6 Event: Waiheke Walking Festival - a bucket list walking event 10 New Zealand walk: Up Shirt Tail - down by “Shirt Tale” 18 Event: Cadbury Moro Marathon - a major event on Dunedin calendar 14 High achiever: Finding myself through walking through Wellington 16 New Zealand walk: The Rob Roy Glacier Walk 18 Digital Photo Contest winners 20 New Zealand walks: Warkworth Walks - now four years old 24 Overseas walk: Everest Base Camp - was the challenge I needed 28 New Zealand walk: Walking The Queen Charlotte Track luxury lodges and gourmet dining 36 Podiatry: Ankle sprains - how to recover faster and strong 37 Overseas walks and tours 38 Overseas walk: An odd encounter on Sydney’s foreshore 40 Window on Waitakere: Kokako old and new 40 Product Marketplace: Bra designed for larger woman 41 Health: Here’s some simple advice to give relief from sore feet 43 Weather forecast for September 44 New Zealand coming events 47 Overseas coming events 28 New Zealand walk: Four Waikato short walks 52 Directory: Walking groups throughout NZ 56 Country Breaks 59 Green Prescription 60 The Duke of Marlborough Hotel AUGUST 2012 175 4 Walk talk 6 My Favourite walk: Te Mata Peak popular with locals 9 New Zealand walk: Forest erntrance upgrade for Whakamarama 10 New Zealand walks: Te Rangiita River walk 12 Te Araroa Trail: The Wellington spectacular 13 Training: Warm up is important before walking 14 My favourite walk: Langs Beach walk 16 New Zealand walk: St James trail upgrade to benefit families 18 Digital Photo Contest winners 20 Great New Zealand Trek: Tikokino to Akitio 24 New Zealand guided walks: Bush and Beyond now in their 20th summer of walks 27 Walking Access funds makes outdoor access easier 28 Overseas walks: Petra - a jewel in Jordan’s crown 36 Event: Asian walking groups set up in North Shore

37 Overseas walks and tours 38 New Zealand walk: New Brighton Pier 39 Podiatry: Twenty interesting foot facts 40 Window on Waitakere: Our streams our dreams 40 My favourite walk: Mangaweka Scenic Reserve Track 41 Health: Get walking it’s easy as 1-2-3 43 Weather forecast for August 44 New Zealand coming events 50 Nordic Walking Calendars 50 Nordic Walking: Nordic Walking and effective exercise option for diabetes 56 Country Breaks 60 The Duke of Marlborough Hotel JULY 2012 174 4 Walk talk 6 New Zealand walk: St Bathans walks 6 New Zealand walk: New Opotiki bridge encourages walkers and cyclists 8 New Zealand walk: Treading through the turbines 11 New Zealand walks: Raglan walks - Bryant Memorial Reserve walks 12 Overseas walks: Walking in Northern Italy and in the Dolomites 14 Book: Auckland’s Best Bush, Coast and City Walks 15 New Zealand walk: Moturiki Island walk 16 New Zealand walks: Walking Full Circle from The Duke and back 18 Digital Photo Contest winners 20 Event: In the back and beyond Linton Station reigns supreme 22 New Zealand walks: Ruahine Forest Park has many walks 26 New Zealand walks: Cornwall Park One Tree Hill walks 30 Overseas walks: Shackelton’s Walk 34 Overseas guided walks: Climbing Myanmar’s Mt Victoria 36 Step it out campaign to encourage walking 37 Overseas walks and tours 38 New Zealand walk: Nature’s highway in Landsdowne 39 Podiatry: Toe numbers with walking - possible causes and solutions 41 Training: Training for walking a half or full marathon 40 Window on Waitakere: Team Robin 43 Weather forecast for July 44 New Zealand coming events 50 Event: Feilding to Palmerston North events 52 Directory: Walking groups 56 Country Breaks 60 Green Prescription JUNE 2012 173 4 Walk talk 6 New Zealand walk: Korokoro Walkway 8 New Zealand walk: Ruamahanga River Bridge walk 10 New Zealand walk: Invercargill’s hidden walking treasure 12 New Zealand walks: From the city to Orokawa Scenic Reserve 14 New Zealand walk: Lake Hakaroa Walkway 17 New Zealand walk: New Arthur’s Pass walking track 18 Digital Photo Contest winners 20 Cycle tours: Takaro Trails - fun on wheels 22 New Zealand walk: Tongariro River Lookout Track 24 Event: Record entries in Waitarere events 26 High achiever: Round the Bays was emotional and inspirational for group 27 New Zealand walk: Gillespies Beach walking tracks 28 Overseas walk: Enchanting Lake Bled 34 New Zealand walks: Christchurch Botanic Gardens 36 Walk away cancer 37 Overseas walks and tours 38 Walking the World: Sonoita, Arizona to Wilcox, Arizona 40 Window on Waitakere: Lizard monitoring 40 Te Araroa Trail: Weather bomb delays opening 41 Health: Discovering dental problems 43 Weather forecast for June 44 New Zealand coming events 48 Nordic Walking: Event popualr

with Nordic walkers 49 Nordic Walking Calendars 49 News: Tongariro National Park 49 News: Porirua walking tracks get high-tech treatment 52 Directory: Walking groups 56 Country Breaks 60 Green Prescription MAY 2012 172 6 New Zealand walk: Whananaki and Onekainga Tracks 8 New Zealand walk: Under the arches. . .

10 My favourite walk: Ohinetonga Loop Walk 13 New Zealand walks: Manawatu - more to offer than first meets the eye 16 New Zealand guided walks: Hiking to the World of the gods 18 Digital Photo Contest winners 20 Overseas guided walks: European Alps - a network of paths and trails 25 Te Araroa Trail: New Hamilton route opened 25 Overseas personal locator beacon helped find man in New Zealand 26 Overseas walks: Walking in the wilderness of Patagonia 28 Overseas guided walks: The roof of Australia 32 Overseas walks: Nepal is the perfect place to trek 37 Overseas walks and tours 38 Walking the World 39 Window on Waitakere: Wasp study 40 Health: Are you being bugged by parasites?

43 Weather forecast for May 44 New Zealand coming events 46 Overseas coming events 49 Nordic Walking Calendar 50 Podiatry: Common toenail problems 51 Product marketplace: Lightweight hiking shoe introduced 56 Country Breaks 60 Wellington Marathon APRIL 2012 171 6 New Zealand walk: Karituwhenua Stream Walkway 8 Walkers benefit by new Horopito to Ohakune link 11 Major project to rejuvenate Abel Tasman National Park ecology 11 Books: Cycling Auckland 12 Event: Alpine plant enthusiasts hitch ride to herbfields 13 Southern Lakes now a world top ten region 14 New Zealand walks: Many wetland walks around area 16 New Zealand walks: Rotorua woman explores the Forgotten Coast 18 Digital Photo Contest winners 20 New Zealand walks: River walk with paddleboat option 22 New Zealand walk: Tour de Stoke 23 Te Araroa Trail: New high view points opened in Southland 24 Overseas walks: Two easy walks in Blue Mountains National Park 30 Overseas walks: Walk in Burgundy and experience good food and wine 34 New Zealand walk: Taieri Gorge rail walk coming up 36 Walking the World 38 Health: Does adding more calcium in the diet prevent Osteoporosis?

40 Podiatry: Painful forefoot?

41 Overseas walks and tours 43 Weather forecast for April 44 New Zealand coming events 46 Overseas coming events 50 Window on Waitakere: Contractors 50 Nordic Walking Calendars 52 Directory: Walking groups 56 Country Breaks 59 Christchurch Marathon MARCH 2012 170 6 New Zealand walk: A taste of a mountain track 9 Tell someone where you are going and returning 10 New Zealand guided walks: Fiordland Coast Walks Exploring a land unknown 12 New Zealand walks: Glenorchy and beyond 15 New Zealand walks: Glenorchy Gateway to paradise 16 Te Araroa Trail - One of world’s greatest walks opened 19 Digital Photo Contest winners 20 New Zealand guided walks: Kahurangi Guided Walks Walking with Nature 23 New Zealand guided walks: South Island has it all!

24 New Zealand walks: Queen Elizabeth Park halfway between Paraparaumu and Paekakariki 26 Overseas guided walks: Contrasts and contraditions part of Sicily’s charm 31 Readers Views: Karangahape Road footpath waterfalls 31 New Zealand walk: Rare opportunity for winners to visit iconic Whale Island 32 Overseas walks: Walking the Pacific Crest Trail 37 Podiatry: Pre- walking warm up routine 38 Overseas walks: Is Azerbaijan the new Gold Coast?

39 Window on Waitakere: Rare plants for rare fauna 40 Health: Vitamins and minerals do work - Case in point - Psoriasis 41 Overseas walks and tours 43 Weather forecast for February 44 New Zealand coming events 51 Nordic Walking Nordic Walking - Just what the doctor ordered 56 Country Breaks 60 Rotorua Marathon FEBRUARY 2012 169 6 New Zealand walk: A taste of a mountain track 9 Tell someone where you are going and returning 10 New Zealand guided walks: Fiordland Coast Walks Exploring a land unknown 12 New Zealand walks: Glenorchy and beyond 15 New Zealand walks: Glenorchy Gateway to paradise 16 Te Araroa Trail - One of world’s greatest walks opened 19 Digital Photo Contest winners 20 New Zealand guided walks: Kahurangi Guided Walks Walking with Nature 23 New Zealand guided walks: South Island has it all!

24 New Zealand walks: Queen Elizabeth Park 26 Overseas guided walks: Contrasts and contraditions part of Sicily’s charm 31 Readers Views: Karangahape Road footpath waterfalls 31 New Zealand walk: Rare opportunity for winners to visit iconic Whale Island 32 Overseas walks: Walking the Pacific Crest Trail 37 Podiatry: Pre- walking warm up routine 38 Overseas walks: Is Azerbaijan the new Gold Coast?

39 Window on Waitakere: Rare plants for rare fauna 40 Health: Vitamins and minerals do work - Case in point - Psoriasis 41 Overseas walks and tours 43 Weather forecast for February 44 New Zealand coming events 51 Nordic Walking Nordic Walking - Just what the doctor ordered 56 Country Breaks 59 Xterra Rotorua JANUARY 2012 168 6 New Zealand walk: Inspirational Northland forest walk 9 ABC of walking 10 New Zealand walks: Waikato River Trail opened 12 New Zealand walks: Million dollar walk, view and cruise 16 My favourite walk: Duder Regional Park walks 18 Digital Photo Contest winners 20 New Zealand guided walks: Routeburn and Milford favoured top walking attractions 22 New Zealand guided walks: Kaikoura Wilderness Walks an ultimate wilderness experience 24 Overseas guided walks: Walking in the wilderness of Patagonia 28 Event: Sunset Coast Walk has amazine views 28 Overseas guided walks: Walk Europe or China in style in 2012 30 Overseas walks: Southern Spain - in the footsteps of the Moors 34 New Zealand walks: Walk in Taupo’s secret bush-garden 36 New Zealand walks: Goldfields Heritage Trust 37 Podiatry: Stress fractures 38 High achiever: The Golden Gate Bridge was an achievement 40 Window on Waitakere: Canopy Corps 40 Health: Massage: Essential for performance and career longevity 43 Weather forecast for January 44 New Zealand coming events 49 Nordic Walking Calendars 52 Directory: Walking groups 56 Country Breaks 60 Great New Zealand Trek www.walkingnewzealand.co.nz

MARCH WEATHER FORECAST March 1 to March 31 2013

Daily Summary 1st - 2nd MARCH 2013 Continuing settled weather.

3rd MARCH 2013 A depression approaches NZ 4th MARCH 2013 High rainfall Marlborough and Nelson.

4th-6th MARCH 2013 Heavy rain in Blenheim causes some flooding.

5th MARCH 2013 Depression becomes semi-stationary over central regions.

8th MARCH 2013 Hot, dry northwesterlies in south Canterbury and Otago. Variable conditions prevail.

8th-14th MARCH 2013 Driest week for the SI this month.

11th MARCH 2013 Over the next four weeks: Floods, very wet in far north, wet in the west of both islands but dry, mild and sunny in the east.

Troughs of low pressure north of NZ bring moist northeasterlies in Northland, Auckland and Coromandel.

Frequent depressions south of the country bring westerlies to SI and to lower half of NI. Cool and wet in western regions such as Taranaki, also King Country and southern lakes.

Wet in Northland and Coromandel by about twice average and above average at Whitianga, Whangarei, Auckland, Taranaki, King Country, Wanganui, Manawatu, Tongariro, Fiordland and west Otago.

Less than average in many east coast regions, e.g.

Gisborne, Wellington, north Canterbury and the Kaikoura coast. Sunshine is below average in Auckland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty and along the West Coast and Fiordland and above average in Wellington, Buller, Nelson and Marlborough.

The sunniest may be Canterbury and coastal Otago.

Temperatures warm in Hawkes Bay, South Auckland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Tongariro, Wairarapa, Manawatu, Kaikoura coast and north Canterbury but slightly below average in Fiordland, along the west coast in Southland, also Buller and Otago.

11th MARCH 2013 Possible cold temperatures at Manapouri.

11th -19th MARCH 2013 Variable conditions at first with the onset of a ridge of high pressure followed by more settled anticyclonic weather from 15th.

13th MARCH 2013 Possible hot temperatures at Hororata.

20th MARCH 2013 Much rain for both Islands.

20th -28th MARCH 2013 Northerlies at first then a brief southerly change.

An anticyclone prevails on 22nd. A depression from the north Tasman tracks across the SI on 23rd followed by southwesterlies.

21st MARCH 2013 Prolonged rain in the Bay of Plenty.

23rd MARCH 2013 Chance of rain storm resulting in flooding and slips in the top of the SI and flooding around Motueka. Wet conditions in the Waikato and much rain and wind in Auckland.

28th MARCH 2013 Possible heavy rain in Queenstown with some chance of flooding.

29th – 31st MARCH 2013 Disturbed westerlies.

Allow 24-hr error to all forecasts. Skewing may occur around 5th(perigee), 12th(new moon), 18th (apogee) , 27th(full moon) and 31st (perigee) www.walkingnewzealand.co.nz

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NORTH ISLAND NORTHLAND KAITAIA FAR NORTH TRAVEL CLUB: Maurice Lowell, 09-408-0732 after 3pm.

BAY OF ISLANDS BAY OF ISLANDS RUNNERS & WALKERS: Saturday (AM), Bert Vanasche 09-404-0147, or Gea Hadderingh 09- 405-7773

DARGAVILLE DARGAVILLE TRAMPING GROUP: Last Sunday of month (AM), Maxine Stringer 09-439-7815, 09-439-6029,stringer@infogen.net.nz

WHANGAREI KIWI SENIORS WALKING GROUP: Monday (AM), Lee Taylor 09-4303470 CARDIAC CARE WALKING GROUP: Wednesday (AM or PM), Jo or Hugh Knight 09-438-7976 KIWI SENIORS WALKING GROUP: Monday (AM), Kensington Reception, 09-437-4404 GREEN PRESCRIPTION WALKING GROUPS: 0800-228-483 HARRIERS WALKING GROUP: Tuesday (AM), Wednesday (PM), Thursday (AM), Val Babe 09-437-1657 HIKURANGI WALKING GROUP: Tuesday (PM) KAMO 60’s UP: Monday, Thursday (AM), Yvonne 09-435-1101 KENSINGTON WALKING GROUP: Tuesday Thursday (PM), Sport Northland 09-437-4404 TIKIPUNGA WALKING GROUP: Tuesday (AM), Barbara Derrick 09435-0746 WAIPU WALKING GROUP: Wednesday (AM) WHANGAREI ATHLETICS CLUB WALKING GROUP: Wednesday (PM) (BIA), Tuesday Thursday (AM), Saturday (PM) Morris or Shirley Gray 09-436-1524 WHANGAREI TRAMPING CLUB: Sue Guyatt 09-436-1441

GREAT BARRIER ISLAND BARRIER TRAMPING& BEER LOVERS CLUB: Sunday, John Brock 09429-0211

AUCKLAND OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES CLUB: midweek, weekends (BIA), walks, tramps, Val Todd 09-579-8250, www.oacnz.org AUCKLAND NATURAL HISTORY CLUB: Every second Sunday, (AM), (IA),Praemi Pera 09-836-9161 ALPINE SPORTS CLUB: Tramps, walks, cycling, Sunday, Saturday, Marianne Rienhard 09-575-2429 ALPINE SPORTS CLUB: Sunday, Saturday & weekdays, tramps, walks , Beryl Borthwick 09-444-9667 or Sue Fitzpatrick 09-576-1069

AUCKLAND CENTRAL AUCKLAND YMCA MARATHON CLUB, (Walkers Section), Sunday (AM), Helen Meyer 09-815-1444 AUCKLAND CATHOLIC TRAMPING CLUB: Jenny Andrew 09-5705455 AUCKLAND WALKERS & JOGGERS CLUB: Tuesday, Thursday (PM), Sunday (AM), (BIA), Bev Horton 09-625-5329 AUCKLAND PRESBYTERIAN HARRIER & WALKING CLUB: Ray Vickers 09-576-6906 AUCKLAND BAPTIST TRAMPING CLUB: Sunday Monthly (PM), (BIA), John McCarthy 09-630-4073 AUCKLAND PRESBYTERIAN HARRIER CLUB: John Yolland 09-5769807 AUCKLAND RACE WALKERS ASSN: Sunday (AM), www.racewalkingauckland.org AUCKLAND TRAMPING CLUB: Doug Astley 09-620-4923 AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY TRAMPING CLUB: Michelle Lee 09-358-1296 BLOCKHOUSE BAY COMMUNITY CENTRE: Len Govind 09-627-9911 ELLERSLIE Y’S WALKING CLUB: Olive Andrews 09-634-4148 EAST AND BAYS RUNNERS & WALKERS: Glendowie, Saturday, Denise 09-570-9683 EPSOM Y’s COMMUNITY CENTRE WALKERS: Tuesday/Thursday (AM), Jan Dwyer 09-636-6294, Sunday (AM), M Armstrong 09639-1378 LYNFIELD Y’S WALKING CLUB: Mt Roskill, Sunday (AM), Marlene 09-827-2737, Danny 09-627-9993 MT ALBERT Y’s WALKING GROUP: Tuesday Friday, (AM), 09-8460788 MT ROSKILL COMMUNITY HOUSE: Theresa McDonald, 09-624-3281 OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES CLUB AUCKLAND: Marshall Piecy 09-4453808, www.oacnz.org ST HELIERS HIKERS: First/Third Wednesdays (all day), Glenn 09-5289726 WALKING CLUB: Graeme Easte, 09-376-5901 LES MILLS GYM: Seven days, (AM) (PM), (BIA), Powerwalking, Dave Buchan, 09-379-9590 STEP OUT WALKING GROUP: Thursday (AM), 09-379-2095 x 9704

WEST AUCKLAND BLUE TOP WALKERS: Henderson, Tuesday, Thursday (AM), Terry Wilson 09-814-9523 or 021-266-1071, www.bluetopwalkers.org.nz FIA OLA WOMEN’S DEVELOPMEMT WALK GROUP: Monday to Saturday, Anne, 09-813-0021 FIT4LIFE: Glenfield, Monday (PM), Friday (AM), Sarah 021 534 649

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FOOTSTEPS: Saturday (AM), John 09-410-2995 GLEN EDEN WALKERS: Oratia Bowling Club, Tuesday (AM), Ethel Denscombe 09-818-3561 GLEN EDEN ATHLETIC CLUB WALKERS: Glen Eden, Wednesday (PM) and Saturday (AM), Neil Turner 09-817-6230 GREEN BAY MUMS BUSH WALKERS: Every second Monday, Anne 09-827-7810 or 09-817-5867 GREEN BAY COMMUNITY HOUSE WALKERS: Tuesday (AM), Thursday (AM), Elaine 09-827-3300 HENDERSON SENIORS WALKING GROUP: Henderson, Friday (AM), Alene Couchman 09-818-2580 KELSTON MORNING WALKERS: Kelston C.C. Tues (AM), Joy Martin 09-838-6553 KELSTON TWILIGHT WALKERS: Kelston, Tuesday (PM), Joy Martin 09-818-6084 KUMEU WALK GROUP: Kumeu, Friday (AM), Beryl Pook 09-412-8914 LYNNMALL CITY MALL WALKING: Tuesday, Thursday (AM), (BIA), 09-826-2333 LYNFIELD Y’S WALKING CLUB: Mt Roskill, Sunday (AM), Marlene 09-827-2737, Danny 09-627-993 LYNNDALE AMATEUR ATHLETIC & HARRIER CLUB: Wednesday and Sunday (AM), Mic Baker 09-626-3232 MASSEY ATHLETIC CLUB: Sunday (AM), Shena McGregor 09-4128076 MASSEY JOGGERS & WALKERS: Sunday (AM), Kerry Watt 09-8386665 or 021-517-049 NEW LYNN ACTIVE 35+ WALKING GROUP: New Lynn, Wednesday, Lorraine, 09-827-8663 RANUI MORNING WALK GROUP: Monday to Friday (AM), Judith 09832-5692 RANUI TWILIGHT WALK GROUP: Monday, Wednesday, Glenys 09832-4069 RIVERHEAD WALK GROUP: Wednesday (AM), Dane Brown 09-4129952 SUMMERLAND WALKERS: Henderson, Thursday (AM), Max Eyes 09-837-4787, lyn Mountier 09-838-1599 TE ATAU PENINSULA WALKERS: Monday, Friday (AM), Wednesday (PM), Mary Jones 09-834-6989 TE ATATU JOGGERS & WALKERS CLUB: Te Atatu Peninsula, Sunday (AM), Malcolm 09-834-4101 or Diane or Graham 09-834-4423 TE ATATU SOUTH ACTIVE 35+ WALKING GROUP: Te Atatu South, Wednesday, Edna, 09-834-1401 THE HAPPY WANDERERS WALKING GROUP: Wednesday (AM), Brian Ashmore 09-817-4562 or 027-471-3038 TITIRANGI TWILIGHT STROLLERS: Tuesday, Thursday (PM), Miranda 09-817-9677 TITIRANGI WALKERS & JOGGERS: Sundays (AM), John Harris 09817-7212 WEST HARBOUR ACTIVE 35+WALKING GROUP: West Harbour, Friday (AM), Lorna Lyon, 09-416-7871 Y’s WALKING HENDERSON: Tuesdays, Thursday, Sarah, 09-836-8031 Y’s Walkers, Mt Roskill, Sunday (AM), Dan Gofin 09-627-9993 WAIATARUA WALKERS:Oratia, Saturday (AM), 09-814-9945 WANDERWOMEN ADVENTURES: 09-360-7330 WALKING WAITAKERE WEDNESDAY WALKS: Wednesday, (AM), May to October, Kay Lindley 09-837-8820 WOMENS OUTDOOR PURSUITS INC: Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday, Harriet Ambler 09-486-6284, Sandra Townsend 09-478-7194 WEST AUCKLAND DISTRICT TRAMPING CLUB: Sunday (AM), www.trampwest.co.nz

NORTH SHORE 10,000 STEPS HARBOUR CLUB: Harbour Sport 09-415-4610 60’s UP TORBAY/BROWNS BAY: Wed (AM), Heather Jean Adams 09-478-2462 ABERDEEN ROAD WALKERS: Campbells Bay, Saturday (PM), Patsy Hulse 09-410-9353 BUSH WALK & TALK: Margi Keys, 09-443-6919 or 0274-481-581 NORTH SHORE TRAMPING CLUB: Lynda Langridge 09-4821320,www.nstc.org.nz BIRKENHEAD PROBUS CLUB: Albany, Tuesday (AM), Tracy Watson 09-414-5351 BROWNS BAY/TORBAY 60’s UP MOVEMENT: Wednesday (AM), Roy Urlic 09-473-8777 CALLIOPE ATHLETICS WALKERS & HARRIERS: Northcote, Wednesday (PM), Gail Mouldey 09-418-3457 DEVONPORT WALKERS: Bayswater, Tuesday Thursday Sunday (AM), Pat & Jim McKay 09-445-2743 DEVONPORT FRIDAY WALKING GROUP: Devonport, Friday (AM), Naomi Gardyne 09-445-4303 EAST COAST BAYS WALKERS: Browns Bay, Tuesday, Friday (AM), Pam Mattson 09-302-4882 or 021-1268-4154 GREENHITHE WALKING GROUP: Greenhithe, Tuesday (AM), Marjorie Andrew 09-413-9065 HIGHBURY COMMUNITY HOUSE: Highbury, Thursday, Friday (AM), Judy Mayn 09-480-5279 MAIRANGI WALKING NETWORK: Mairangi Bay, Everyday (AM), Paula Cole 09-444-6435 MEADOWOOD WALKING & TALKERS: Albany, Tuesday (AM), Carol Buckner 09-479-7804 MILFORD MALL WALKERS: Greenhithe, Tuesday, Thursday, (AM), Carol Mosedale 09-443-2054 MILFORD MENS PROBUS: Ian Hall 09-479-4259 NORTH SHORE DIABETES SUPPORT GROUP: Every second Sunday (AM), Jan 09-483-5645 NORTH SHORE TRAMPING CLUB: www.nstc.org.nz NORTHCOTE WALKING GROUP: Northcote, every second Tuesday (AM), Peter Cox 09-480-5622

TORBAY WALKERS: Torbay, Wednesday (AM), Jill Devonshire 09473-1931 WALKERS & TALKERS: Campbells Bay, Wednesday (AM), Brenda Gray 09-410-4019, Dorothy Ensor 09-478-6702 WOMENS OUTDOOR PURSUITS INC: Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday, Harriet Ambler 09-486-6284 Y’s WALKING SUNDAY GROUP: Northcote, Sunday (AM), Malcolm Curtis 09-444-3823

NORDIC WALKING GROUPS Acacia Cove Nordic Walking Group: Sunday (AM) Jenny Wills 09267-5416 Bridge the Gap Nordic Walkers: Sunday (AM ), Sheila Milbourn/ Margaretha Sehnert 027-456-2233/021-141-3801 Cornwall Park Nordic Walking Group: Saturday (AM), June Stevenson 09-361-6636 or 0274-383-923 Cornwall Park Nordic Gold (Senior Group) Monday (AM), June Stevenson 09-361-6636 or 0274-383-923 North Shore Nordic Walkers Sunday (AM), Kay Livingstone 09-4734489 Pakuranga Nordic Walkers: Thursday (AM) Deidre Nielsen 09-2713324 YMCA Nordic Walkers Thursday (AM) June Stevenson 09-3616636 or 0274-383-923

RODNEY 10,000 STEPS HARBOUR CLUB: Harbour Sport 09-415-4610 ARIKI WALKERS: Snells Beach, Mondays (AM), Edna Prbert 09-4255928 HEALTH IN ACTION: (BIA), Susie George 09-426-1269 HELENSVILLE WALKERS: Helensville, Tuesday (AM), Malcolm Keane 09-420-8739 HIBISCUS COAST Y’S WALKERS: Sunday (AM), Wednesday (AM,PM), Kevin Tiller, 09-426-6461 LEISURE WALKERS: Whangaparaoa, Thursday (AM), Ann Mahon/ Margaret Gilbert 09-424-0765 MONDAY NIGHTA, Orewa, Monday (PM), Laraine Chase 09-4279321 SCOTTS LANDING WALKING GROUP: RD2, Warkworth, Sunday (AM), Angela McIntyre 09-425-5854 SNELLS BEACH WALKING GROUP: Warkworth, Wednesay (AM), Jenny Burton 09-425-5583 WELLSFORD ROAD RUNNERS & JOGGERS: Second Sunday (AM), Thursday (AM), Robert Scott 09-425-8089 or Heather Rankin 09431-4692 WOMENS OUTDOOR PURSUITS INC: Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday, Harriet Ambler 09-486-6284

WAIHEKE ISLAND WAIHEKE ISLAND WALKING GROUP: Saturday (PM), Shaona Maddle, 09-372-6645

COUNTIES/MANUKAU PUKEKOHE JOGGERS & WALKING GROUP: Monday, Friday, Sunday (AM), 09-238-9820 WAIUKU WALKING GROUP: Information Centre, Monday, Wednesday, Friday (AM), ONEWHERO KIWISENIORS WALKING GROUP: Merlene, Walker, 09232-8844 PAPATOETOE Y’S WALKING GROUP: Monday, Wednesday, Friday (AM), Derek McKeen, 09-266-2304 PAKURANGA ATHLETIC CLUB: Tuesday, Thursday 9am (BIA), Linda Mitchell, 09-532-8442 PAKURANGA KIWISENIORS WALKING GROUP: Monday, Wednesday (AM), 09-576-9739 MANUKAU TRAMPING CLUB: Judith Walker, 09-296-6977 MANUREWA Y’S WALKERS: Recreation Centre, MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY (AM), 09-267-4646 MANUREWA Y’S WALKING GROUP: Clendon Recreation Centre, Tuesday, Thursday (AM), 09-266-1100 MANUREWA COSMOPOLITAN CLUB WALKERS: Sunday (AM) HOWICK UXBRIDGE WALKERS: Monday, Thursday (AM), 09-5356467 HOWICK Y’S WALKERS: Tuesday, Thursday (AM), 09-534-5153 PUKEKOHE TRAMPING CLUB: Mark Leys 09-294-8927 TOI TOI TREKKERS TRAMPING CLUB: Colin Johnstone 09-535-6231

WAIKATO HAMILTON FRANKTON ATHLETIC & HARRIER CLUB: Wednesday, Saturday, (PM), (BIA), Heather Purdie-Raill, 07-847-5639 NAWTON WALKING GROUP: Rene Smyth, 07846-3245 CENTRAL LAKE WALKING GROUP: Monday, WEdnesday Friday (AM), Nella Barron 07-846-3103 CHARTWELL WALKING GROUP: Monday (AM), Carrie Haak 07-8554281 DINSDALE WALKING GROUP: Monday (AM), Val Russell 07-847-6539 ENDERLEY WALKING GROUP: Tuesday (AM), Leonie Smith 07-8552224 HAMILTON EAST WALKING GROUP: Wednesday (AM), Irene Millar 07-855-6848 HILLCREST WALKING GROUP: Monday Wednesday Friday (AM), Nell Bradburn 07-856-3787 MEMORIAL PARK WALKING GROUP: Thursday (AM), Maureen Doms 07-855-2497 NAWTON WALKING GROUP: Monday Tuesday (AM), Roslynn Billman 07-847-4873 SILVERDALE WALKING GROUP: Sister Anne Marie Jones 07-856www.walkingnewzealand.co.nz

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8980 CLAUDELAND WALKING GROUP: Friday (AM), Irene Millar 07-8556848 FLAGSTAFF WALKING GROUP: Monday Wednesday Friday (AM), Gillian Bartram 07-854-0069 WESTFIELD MALL WALKING GROUP: Tuesday (AM) Westfield Mall Chartwell HAMILTON MARATHON CLINIC:Tuesday (PM), Sunday (AM), Sharon 07-854-9214 TOD SQUAD: Friday (AM), Julie 07-829-4579 Y’s WALKERS: Monday, Wednesday, Friday (AM) MONDAY BUSHTRAMPERS: Monday, Marian 07-828-9029 BREAKAWAYS BUSH WALKING & TRAMPING CLUB: Diana Ammann 07-823-6147 WAIKATO TRAMPING CLUB: www.wtc.org.nz or Stu Kneebone 07827-3097

CAMBRIDGE CAMBRIDGE WALKING GROUP: Monday, Wednesday (AM), Sharon Woodings, 07-827-6033 LEAMINGTON WALKING GROUP: Wednesday (AM), Sharon Woodings, 07-827-6033

KAIHERE/PATETONGA KAIHERE/PATETONGA WALKING GROUP: Wednesday (PM), Julie Stephenson 07-867-7011

MATAMATA MATAMATA WALKERS: Tuesday, Friday (AM), Ruth Stanley 07-8809088 AFTERWORK WALKERS: Monday, Wednesday (PM), Janis Jeffers, 07-889-7032 MATAMATA TRAMPING & WALKING GROUP: Shirley Hickson 07888-6054

MORRINSVILLE MORRINSVILLE WALKERS: Wednesday (AM), Ruth Stanley 07880-9088

OTOROHANGA OTOROHANGA WALKING GROUP: Friday (AM)

PAEROA PAEROA WALKING GROUP: Monday, Wednesday (AM), Elaine Lally 07-862-8409 PAEROA LUNCH WALKERS: Monday Wednesday Friday, Julie Stephenson 07-867-7011

PUTARURU PUTARURU WALKING GROUP:(BIA) Hazel Murphy, 07-883-7927

PIOPIO SILVERADOS EXERCISE GROUP: Wednesday (PM), June O’Donoghue, 07-877-8492 PIOPIO CROSS COUNTRY WALKERS: Mon (AM), (BIA), Maurice Kearns, 07-877-8836

TAIRUA TAIRUA WALKING GROUP: Tuesday, Thursday, Mike Lord, 07-8686025

THAMES THAMES WALKING GROUP: Monday, Friday (AM), Mike Lord, 07868-6025

TAUPO TAUPO HARRIER CLUB WALKING SECTION: Saturday (PM), Wednesday (AM), Bernie Rolls 07-378-9229 TAUPO TRAMPING CLUB: Wednesday (AM), Thursday (AM), Weekends (AM or PM), Isabel Hutcheon 07-376-9319 MONDAY WALKERS: Monday (AM), (BIA), Betty Stockman 07378-4992 WAIORA WALKING GROUP: Wednesday, Friday (AM), Kaye Beatson 07-378-6957 WEDNESDAY WALKERS: Wednesday (PM), (I), 06-378-9229

TE AROHA TE AROHA WALKERS: Thursday (AM), Ruth Stanley 07-880-9088 TE AROHA TRAMPING CLUB: Every second Sunday, Judy Forsman 07-884-8841 TE AROHA TREKKERS: Wednesday (AM), Frances Harrison 07-8628184

TE AWAMUTU TE AWAMUTU TUESDAY TRAMPERS: Tuesday, Lesley 07-870-1973 or Kathy 07-870-2006 TE AWAMUTU WALKING GROUP: Monday, Wednesday, Friday (AM), Jan Jefferies 07-889-7032 TE AWAMUTU MARATHON CLINIC: Wednesday (PM), Sunday (AM), (BIA), Ross Thomas 07-871-5022

TE KUITI

KATIKATI TRAMPING CLUB: fortnightly weekends (AM), Maddy Pyle 07-552-0215

KAWERAU KAWERAU WALKERS: Kawerau, Thursday (AM), (B), Sport Bay of Plenty, 07-308-8304 HARRIERS WALKERS: Kawerau Thursday (PM), (A), Sport Bay of Plenty, 07-308-8304

ROTORUA CROSS COUNTRY WALKERS: Tuesday, Thursday, (AM), (A), 07 347-8945 LAKE CITY ATHLETIC CLUB WALKERS GROUP: Tueday, Thursday (PM), Sunday (AM), Ted Sheppard 07-348-1205 or Sarah Wiwarena 07-348-7874 GREEN PRESCRIPTION WALKING GROUP: TMonday and Thursday (AM), (B), Melissa Gordon 07-348-4125 HEART SUPPORT WALK GROUP: Tueday (AM), Wally Walford 07347-6173 MOKOIA COMMUNITY CENTRE WALKERS: Wednesday (AM), (B), Melissa Gordon 07 348 4125 SPRINGFIELD STROLLERS: Wednesday (AM), (BIA), Glenys Searancke 07-348-4243 ROTORUA TRAMPING & SKI CLUB: Sundays (AM), Trevor Cochrane 07-345-6362 ROTORUA SOCIAL NORDIC WALKING GROUP: Fridays (AM), Audrey 07-348-1471 ST BARNABAS WALKING GROUP: Friday (AM), (BIA), Joy Gordon 07-357-5744 THE THURSDAY STROLLERS: Thursday (AM), (B), Myrtle Raxworthy 07-346-3772 WALKING WITH JOY: Tuesday (AM), (BI), Joy Gordon 07-357-5744

TAURANGA/MT MAUNGANUI AGE CONCERN: Tauranga, Wednesday (AM), 07-578-2631 CITY ON ITS FEET: Days and areas, (BIA), Penny 07-578-9610 STEPPING OUT JOGGING CLUB: Monday, Wednesday, (AM), (IA), 07-544-0316 FOREST & BIRD SOCIETY: Secretary, Tauranga. branch @forestandbird.org.nz, Tauranga HEALTHY HEART CLUB: Monday, Wednesday, Friday (AM), (B), YMCA, 07-578-5891 Y’s WALKERS: Monday, Wednesday, Friday (AM), YMCA, 07-5785891 MOUNT JOGGERS & WALKERS: Tuesday, Friday, Sunday, (AM), Gaye Westwood 07-574-1075 ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION: MONDAY (AM) 07-576-2469 NORDIC WALKING AT THE MOUNT: Monday, Wednesday, Saturday, Steffi 07-574-7527 NORDIC WALKING IN TAURANGA: Monday, Wednesday, Mary 07577-0711 MT MAUNGANUI RSA WALKING CLUB: Tuesday, Thursday, Sundays (AM), (BIA), Kieran Jensen 07-572-0626 50 FORWARD WALKING GROUPS: Sport Bay of Plenty 07-578-0016 TAURANGA MID-WEEK TRAMPING GROUP: Lynda 07-552-5359 TAURANGA ROAD RUNNERS: Sunday (AM), Nick 07-578-5802 TAURANGA RAMBLERS: Malcolm 07-544-2369 or Rod Taylor 07576-4207 TAURANGA TRAMPERS NETWORK: Natalie Bird 07-576-0016 TAURANGA TRAMPING CLUB: Christine Rawnsley 07-578-9984 PAK N BOOTS: Moya Hewson 07-575-7064

TE PUKE TE PUKE WALKERS: Tuesday (AM), 07-573-8306

WAIHI WAIHI STRIDERS: Wednesday (AM), Julie Stephenson 07-867-7011 WAIHI STROLLERS: Friday (AM), Julie Stephenson 07-867-7011 WAIHI MONDAY TRAMPING: Monday (AM), Marie 07-863-4633 or Barry 07-863-4597

WHAKATANE

TARADALE/GREEN MEADOWS WALKING GROUP: Monday (AM), (IA), Beverly Gillies 06-843-6805 TARADALE/SPORT HAWKES BAY WALKING GROUP: Tuesday (AM), (BI), Nga Gifford-Kara 06-845-9333

TARANAKI INDEPENDENT WALKERS TARANAKI: Saturday (PM). North: Ray/ Mary 06-756-7798. Central: Wallace/Nancye 06-762-2861. South: Alan/Jean 06-278-6846

NEW PLYMOUTH CARRINGTON WALKING GROUP: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Catherine McKee 06-753-3254 TIME FOR ME WALKS FOR WOMEN: Friday (AM), (I), Glenice 06758-3974 FRONT RUNNER GROUP: Monday (PM), (BIA), Kelvin & Michelle Giddy FITZROY WALKING GROUP: Monday, Wednesday, Friday (AM), (IA), Marlene 06-758-8749 or Marilyn 06-757-2022 WESTOWN WALKING GROUP FOR WOMEN: Monday, Wednesday, Friday (AM), (IA), Karen 06-751-1361 WEDNESDAY WALKERS: Wednesday (AM), Karen 06-751-1361 WALKERS IN THE PARK: Monday, (AM), (B), Dawn 06-758-6429 or Dorothy Humphries 06-751-0431 SPOTSWOOD WALKING GROUP: Monday, Wednesday, Friday (AM), (BI), Allie Fitzgibbon 06-751-2304 NEW PLYMOUTH JOGGERS & WALKERS CLUB: Sunday, (AM), Jan Dempsey, 06-758-8373 TARANAKI RACE WALKING CLUB: Trevor Suthon, 06-758-0776 EGMONT ATHLETICS: Karen Green, 06-758-1569

INGLEWOOD INGLEWOOD WALKING GROUP: Monday (AM), (I), Maureen 06756-7255

STRATFORD STRATFORD RUNNERS & WALKERS CLUB: Saturday (PM), (BIA), Jill Gorrie 06-764-5088 STRATFORD WEDNESDAY WALKERS: Wednesday (AM), (BI), Ivan Coates 06-765-7212 or Wes Robinson 06-765-5242

INGLEWOOD INGLEWOOD WALKING GROUP: Monday (AM), Maureen 06- 7567255

HAWERA HAWERA WALKING GROUPO: Friday (AM), Nancy Riddick 06-2785784 PUSH PLAY WALKERS: Thursday (AM), Tuesday (PM), (BIA), Moira Koch, 0800-223-228

WANGANUI

WHITIANGA WALKING GROUP: Monday, Thursday (AM), Mike lord, 07-868-6025

WANGANUI

WHANGAMATA WHANGAMATA WALKING GROUP: Thursday (AM), Mike Lord, 07868-6025 WHANGAMATA ROAD RUNNERS & WALKERS: 07-865-6580 WHANGAMATA RAMBLERS: Ron Le Noel, 07-865-9475 WALK WHANGAMATA: Everyday (AM), from Surfclub WHANGA SENIOR WALKERS: Tuesday (AM), 07-865-7022

EAST COAST

HASTINGS

TOKOROA ALPINE CLUB:Midweek, Christine 07-886-7294

BRIDGET ROBERTSHAWES STUDIO OF FITNESS: Saturday (AM), (BIA), Bridget, 06-877-5285 FLAXMERE WALKING GROUP: Tuesday, Thursday (AM), (BI), Maisy 06-879-7077 HASTINGS WALKING GROUP: Monday (AM), (I), Eddy 06-876-3371

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COROMANDEL TOWN WALKERS: Tuesday, Thursday (AM) 07-8667101or 07-866-8560

AHURIRI WALKING GROUP: Friday (AM), (I), Beverly Gillies 06-8436805 NAPIER WALKING GROUP: Thursday (AM), (I), Lyn 06-835-7704 NAPIER SOUTH WALKING GROUP: Friday (AM), (B), Maria Rogers 06-843-1225 RUN WALK HAWKES BAY: Wed (PM), Sunday (AM), Mike Sheely 06-843-7804, www.runwalkhb.org.nz Ys WALKERS: Tuesday, Thursday, Napier, Barry 06-844-3929 or Nola 06-843-7912

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SUNSHINE WALKING GROUP: Whakatane, Tuesday (AM), (I), Graham Thomas, 07-307-9800 HARRIERS WALKERS WHAKATANE: Saturday, (PM), (I), Noel Jones, 07-308-7101

WAITOMO WALKING GROUP: Tuesday (AM), (BIA), Ruth Early, 07-878-6870 TWILIGHT WALKING GROUP: Monday, (PM), (BIA), Dede Downs, 07-878-7867

BAY OF PLENTY

HASTINGS WALKING GROUP: Tuesday (PM), (BI), Templey 06-8730971 HAVELOCK NORTH WALKING GROUP: Monday (AM), (BI), Jane 06877-0017 HAVELOCK NORTH WALKERS: Wednesday (AM), (BI), Jeanette 06877-2114 HAVELOCK NORTH WALKING GROUP: Thursday (AM), Lyn 06-8777886 KIWI SENIORS: Eana Young 06-845-9333 x 708 RUN WALK HAWKES BAY: Wed (PM), Sunday (AM), Doug Clark 06878-2785, www.runwalkhb.org.nz

GISBORNE RUNNERS & WALKERS: Margaret Badger 06-868-4785

HAWKES BAY

KIWI SENIORS WALKING GROUP: Monday (AM), (BIA), Maria Erkes 06-764-8984

CASTLECLIFF WALK GROUP: Monday (AM), Dorothea Dobbie 06344-4219 RONA & GLAD’S WALK GROUP: Tuesday (AM), Rona Wright 06344-5434 WANGANUI HARRIER CLUB: Wednesdays, Saturday (PM), Secretary, P O Box 702, Wanganui, Perry Newburn 06-343-6484 SPORT WANGANUI CLUB GOLD: Tuesday, Thursday, (AM), Karen Buckholt 06-349-2315 WANGANUI MILLENNIUM WALKERS CLUB: Sunday (AM), Darol Pointon 06-345-3137

WAVERLEY SPORT WANGANUI CLUB GOLD: (AM), (BIA), Betty Morrison 06346-5613

OHAKUNE SPORT WANGANUI CLUB GOLD: Mondays (AM), Kerry Young 06385-4055

MARTON SPORT WANGANUI CLUB GOLD Wednesday (AM), Deane James 06-327-7607

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MANAWATU PALMERSTON NORTH HOKOWHITU KIWI WALKERS: Tuesday, Thursday (AM), (I), Jack Cook 06-357-7458 or Dorne Jarvis 06-357-2444 KELVIN GROVE WALKERS: Tuesday (PM), (I), Marjory Edmonds, 06354-3342 MANAWATU STRIDERS: Tuesday, Thursday, (PM); Sunday (AM), Hockey Manawatu Pavillion, Manawaroa Street, (BIA), Alister Martin 06-353-7175 PALMERSTON NORTH JOGGERS & WALKERS: Esplanade,Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday (AM), (BI), Robyn McKey 06-354-9952.

CLUB PED: Monday, Wednesday, (PM), (IA), Ongley Park; Saturday, (AM), Esplanade, (IA), David Young 06-356-7179 HEARTY STRIDERS: Thursday (PM), (BI), Esplanade, Adrienne Kennedy 06-350-8617 MASSEY WALKERS: Monday, Thursday, noon, Massey Recreation Centre, (BIA) Chin Diew Lai 06-350-5799 ext 2471 MANAWATU WALKWAYS PROMOTION SOCIETY’S MONTHLY WALKERS: Sunday (AM), (IA) Gillian Absolom 06-329-6898 METHODIST AGAPE FELLOWSHIP WALKERS: Wednesday (AM), (B), Lorna Goodwin, 06-358-2860 U3A Exploring Walkways: Thursday (PM), (B), Lynley Watson 06356-4384 WOMEN’S AFTER 5.30 WALKING GROUP: Tuesday, Thursday (PM), (I), Liz MacNeill 06-357-8216

FEILDING SENIOR WALKING GROUP: Tuesday, Thursday (AM), (BI), Gail Byrnes 06-323-5470

FOXTON FOXPEDS: Monday (PM), Foxton, Foxton Beach, (BIA), Dave Blackett, 06-363-5743, Michelle Duffy, 06-363-7987

LEVIN LEVIN HARRIER & WALKING CLUB: Saturday (PM), (BIA), Ivan Morgan 06-368-3622 WEDNESDAY LEISURE WALKERS: Wednesday (AM), (BIA), Lila McCall, 06-367-9070 LEVIN JOGGERS & WALKERS CLUB: Tuesday, Wednesday, Sunday, (BIA), Colleen Francis 06-368-8624

WAIRARAPA MASTERTON WALKING GROUP RECREATIONAL: Edna Patrick, 06-377-4338 ORIENTEERING GROUP: 06-377-7961 or 379-5124 CARTERTON 40+ STRIDERS: Ada Lyster, 06-379-8746 RUAMAHANGA RAMBLERS: Winter Saturday, Summer Tuesday (PM), (BIA), Ray Wallis 06-377-0703

MARTINBOROUGH MARTINBOROUGH WALKING GROUP: Barbara Behrent 06-3069226

Wednesday (PM), 04-564-6019 HUTT VALLEY TRAMPING CLUB: Weekend (AM), Dennis Page 04970-6901 TAKE HEART WALK GROUP: Monday (AM), (BI), Keith Millar, 04526-7440 LEISURE WALKERS: seniors, Tuesday (AM), Jean, 04-565-1918 HUTT VALLEY MARATHON CLINIC: Jenny Raymond, 04-569-6232 WALK WAINUI: Monday (AM), (BIA), Shirley 04-564-6179 EASTBOURNE WALK GROUP: Lesley O’Neil, Eastbourne ALICETOWN WALKING GROUP: 04-589-2646 KIWI MASTERS WALKERS: Richard Davies 04-566-1335 OLDER ADULTS – LEISURE WALKING GROUP: Judy 04-528-4445

PORIRUA FRIDAY WALKERS: Margaret Hughes, 04-237-8660 TAWA LINDEN HIKERS: 04-232-8705 WEA RAMBLERS: Muriel Thompson, Tawa TAWA/LINDEN WALKERS: Maurice 04-232-4407 or Claire 04-2328764

UPPER HUTT AURORA HARRIER CLUB: Peter Wrigley, p.wiggles@paradise.net.nz TUESDAY TRIPPERS: Bill Thompson, 04-971-5123 FANTAIL HIKERS: Marg Eagles, Upper Hutt TRENTHAM UNITED HARRIER CLUB: Jon Roskvist, 021-460-877 or 04-526-6906 UPPER VALLEY WALKING & TRAMPING CLUB: Allison 04-563-6661

KAPITI KAPITI CARDIAC CLUB: Tuesday, Thursday, Graham Priest 04-2937872 KAPITI WEDNESDAY WALKERS: Wednesday (AM), Robin Leger 04-905-4680 or Muriel Hill 04-293-5121 KAPITI SUNDAY WALKERS: Sunday (AM), Frank Morris 04-2932567 or Ethel Symes 04-904-1485 KAPITI THURSDAY WALKERS: Thursday, email kapitithursdaywalkers@gmail.com,www.sportsground.co.nz/ kapitithursdaywalkers KAPITI JOGGERS & WALKERS: Sunday (AM), Pam Childs 04-9021754 KAPITI WANDERERS: Tuesday (alt), email: kapitiwanderers@gmail.com, www.sportsground.co.nz/ kapitiwanderers MONDAY WALKERS: Monday, Reg Goodsell 04-904-7558, or Steve Golledge 04-904-5904 SPORT KAPITI THURSDAY WALKERS: Thursday (AM), 04-296-9022

SOUTH ISLAND MARLBOROUGH BLENHEIM 50 PLUS WALKING GROUP: Monday (AM), Colin 03-572-9423 or Joan 03-578-1922 PICTON WALK GROUP: Monday (AM), Claire 03-573-7991

NELSON

WELLINGTON

MOTUEKA

WELLINGTON

MOTUEKA FIFTY PLUS WALKERS: Thursday (AM), Nora Morris 03-528-6290

BROOKLYN WALKERS: Edith, 04-384-6799 BUGGY WALKING GROUP: First Thursday of month (AM), www.buggywalk.co.nz FOREST & BIRD: 04-567-7271 ORIENTAL BAY WEDNESDAY WALKERS: Christine Blakely 04-3836276 MT VICTORIA WALKING GROUP: Euan Harris 04-384-4770 WALK WAINUI: Monday (AM), (BIA), Shirley 04-564-6179 ISLAND BAY WALKING GROUP: Community Resource Centre, Island Bay, 04-383-7464 WALKING FOR LIFE: Lynne Waring, Miramar KARORI WALKING GROUP: Mavis Shaw, Kelburn KARORI ARTS & CRAFT WALKING GROUP: 04-934-8630 KANDALLAH CORNERSTONE WALKERS: Monday (AM) 04-479-5420 MIRAMAR WALKING GROUP: 04-388-1944 NEWLANDS COMMUNITY HOUSE WALKING: Tuesday (AM), 04-4788799 TARARUA TRAMPING CLUB: www.ttc.org.nz WEA MIDWEEK WALKERS: Hanna Harwood WELLINGTON WEDNESDAY WALKERS: 04-388-1988 WELLINGTON CATHOLIC TRAMPING CLUB: 04-934-4729 WELLINGTON HARRIER ATHLETIC CLUB: Saturday (PM) mid March to mid October, (BIA), Veronica Gould WELLINGTON MARATHON CLINIC: Sunday (AM), (BIA), Toni 04478-9201 WELLINGTON MID-WEEK WALKERS: Tues, Thursday (PM), Bart Jones 04-477-3746 or David Lonsdale 04-977-8990 WELLINGTON NORDIC WALKERS: Rod McColl 04-526-6833

LOWER HUTT WALK FOR HEALTH: Wednesday (PM), Saturday (AM), Sunday (AM), (BIA), Jean 04-589-7887 or Dave 04-970-5133 POSITIVELY SLIM “Health for Life Walkers: Sunday (AM) Wednesday (PM) (BIA), Jim or Barbara Mobbs 04-566-2603 HUTT VALLEY WALKERS: Saturday (PM), Pam McArthur 04-586-4088 WALKING FOR PLEASURE: 60’s Plus, Melling, Molly Shephers, 04567-5727 WOMENS WALKING GROUP: Wainuiomata, every second

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NELSON NELSON STRIDERS: Tuesday, Thursday, (PM), (BI), Averil West, 03-548-3655 NELSON KIWISENIORS: Tuesday (AM), 03-548-1126 WAKEFIELD WALKING GROUP: Thursday (AM), Lou Manson, 03541-8414 TAHUNA KIWISENIORS: Monday (AM), 03-548-1126 NELSON 50+ WALKING GROUP: alternative Tuesday, Thursday (AM), Noel Brown 03-544-2286 NELSON 50+ WALKING & TRAMPING GROUP: Noel Brown 03544-2286 WAIMEA HARRIER WALKERS: Saturday (PM), Sunday (AM) (BIA), Heather McNabb, 03-547-8490 WEDNESDAY WALKERS: Wednesday (AM), Visitor Information Centre

TAKAKA GOLDEN BAY ALPINE AND TRAMPING CLUB: Day walk and overnight trips, Paul Kilgour, 03-525-7383

CANTERBURY CHRISTCHURCH ACTIVE CHRISTCHURCH SUNDAY WALK: Sunday (AM) (BI), 03-9418999 AVON LOOP/CITY KIWISENIORS: Monday (AM), (B), Sport Canterbury 03-373-5060 AVONSIDE KIWI SENIORS: Wednesday (AM), (BI), Jan 03-389-2755 AVONHEAD KIWISENIORS: Friday (AM), (BI), Bess 03-342-7647 AFTER WORK WALKING CLUBS: around Christchurch, (BI), for all ages and fitness levels, recreation clerk, CCC 03-371-1778.

ARAI-WALKERS: Wednesday, Wainoni/Aranui, Natalie Hoani, 03-3882593 ARTHRITIC AMBLERS: Wednesday, (B) suitable for people with physical disabilities, Trevor Randall 03-385-7446 BEXLEY KIWISENIORS: Tuesday (AM), (BI), Kath 03388-6161 BARRINGTON KIWISENIORS: Friday (AM), (BI), Nita 03-337-1493 BECKENHAM WALK ‘n’ TALK: Thursday (PM), Di 03-385-3452

BISHOPDALE RAMBLERS: Wednesday (AM) (I), Bishopdale, Paul Muir 03-359-7971 BISHOPDALE TRAMPING CLUB: Wednesday (AM),(IA), Margaret 03351-6681 BURNSIDE JOGGERS & WALKERS CLUB: Sunday (AM) Burnside, Anne Uys 03-342-6337 BUSHWISE WOMEN: (BIA) Cynthia Roberts or Roz Heinz 03-3324952 BRIGHTON RAMBLERS WALKING GROUP: Tuesday (AM), New Brighton (I), Marlene Crocker 03-388-1115 CANTERBURY RACE WALKERS ASSOCIATION: Monday, Wednesday, (BIA), coordinates all Canterbury race walkers and friendly race walking, Ann Henderson 03-387-0387 CANTERBURY UNIVERSITY TRAMPING CLUB: Wednesday (PM), Darryn Welham 03-960-3808 CARDIAC COMPANIONS: Sunday fortnight, (PM) Neville Wootton 03-942-5453 CARDIAC CARE GROUP, Marg Allison 03-366-2112 CCC EASTENDERS: Monday (AM), (IA), or Bruce 03-388-7295 CCC GARDEN CITY WALKERS: Saturday (AM) (IA), Helen 03-3822302 CCC GLOW WORM EVENING WALKERS: Wednesday (PM) (IA), Norm Wells 03-981-5487 CCC HALSWELL: Saturday (AM) (PM), (IA), Pauline 03-322-8057: Sunday, Terrence 03-322-8092 CCC SUNSHINE WALKERS: Tuesday (PM (IA), Jim 03-389-1982 or Hope 03-389-7997 CCC SHIRLEY RECREATIONAL WALKERS: Monday, Thursday (AM), (IA), 03-941-5409 CCC SOCKBURN: Tuesday (AM) (IA), Estelle 03-342-7841:Friday (AM) (IA), Jo 03-349-7146 CCC WEEKEND WANDERS: Sunday (PM) (IA), Marilyn 03-338-3826 CHRISTCHURCH PERSONAL GUIDING SERVICE: Daily (AM) (BIA), Cathedral Square, C Tonge 03-981-6350 CHRISTCHURCH MARATHON CLINIC: Saturday (AM), Neil Messenger 03-322-7709 CHRISTCHURCH METHODIST HARRIER CLUB: Saturday (PM) (BIA), Mrs Lindsay Evans 03-355-4356 CITY RAMBLERS WALKING GROUP: Tuesday, 50+age group men & women, Margaret Borrens, 03-354-1534 CRUSADERS WALKERS: Tuesday (BI), (50’s and above age group), Pauline 03-385-9947 DARLINGTON KIWISENIORS: Wednesday (AM), Bill 03-385-1925 DIAMOND HARBOUR RAMBLERS: Tuesday, Hunters Road, (IA), Noeline Coleman 03-329-4566 EASTENDERS: Monday (AM), Bruce 03-981-5329 ELLESMERE TRAMPING GROUP: Thursday (AM), Trish Vessey 03329-1865 FAMILY SOCIAL GROUPS: (B), for parents with young children, recreational clerk, 03-371-1778 FASTRACK WALKING GROUP: Wednesday (AM) (I), Linwood, Dorothy Jones 03-389-5339 FENDALTON WALK ‘n’ TALK: Thursday (AM), 03-941-8999 FENDALTON NORDIC WALKERS: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Yvette So 03-351-6407 GARDEN CITY WALKERS: Saturday (AM), Helen 03-382-2302 GENTLE EXERCISE: Monday, Friday, (NI), qualified physed instructor leads groups, Russell Graham, 03-388-3196 GLOW WORM EVENING WALKERS: Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday, Pauline 03-322-8057 HAGLEY PARK NORDIC WALKERS: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Kerstin Fahrenschone 03-388-0000 HALSWELL WALK ‘n’ TALK: Monday (AM), 03-941-8999 HAPPY RAMBLERS WALKING GROUP: Tuesday, (IA), 50+age group, Vera 03-337-4094 HAPPY WANDERERS WALKING GROUP: Wednesday, (BI), mainly 12 hour flat walks, John van Herpt, 03-980-5664 HEI HEI WALKERS: Thursday, Lee Tuki 03-373-8150 HERITAGE WALKS: Tuesday, (PM), Graeme Stanley 03-980-1553 HERITAGE WALKS: Thursday, (AM), Graeme Stanley 03-980-1553 HOON HAY KIWISENIORS: Wednesday (AM), (BI), Barbara 03-3388306 KAIAPOI WALKERS GROUP: Tuesday, Wednesday (AM), Lyane Graham 03-327-5679 KAIAPOI NORDIC WALKERS: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Trudy Blakey 03-327-4457 KIWISENIORS WALKING GROUPS: for the over 50’s, 23 surburban groups plus rural locations, Sport Canterbury 0800-228-483 LAMBDA DAY TRAMPERS: every second Sunday, (BI), social group for gays and lesbians of all ages, Helen Davies 03-332-8724 LINWOOD AVENUE WALKING GROUP: Wednesday, Thursday (AM) (B), 03-389-5303 LINWOOD KIWISENIORS: Thursday (AM), Phyl 03-389-6130 LYTTELTON WALKING GROUP: Tuesday, Lyttlelton, (BI), Ada Goodwin 03-328-7235 MAIREHAU LADIES PROBUS, Tuesday, Leah 03-385-6310 MARYVILLE KIWISENIORS:: Monday (AM), Valmai 03-377-8742 MERIVALE KIWISENIORS: Monday (AM), (BI), June 03-355-8703 MT PLEASANT KIWISENIORS: Tuesday (AM), (BI), Pauline 03-3844794 NEW BRIGHTON KIWISENIORS: Wednesday, (AM), (BI), (both walkers and strollers), Joy 03-383-4494 NEW BRIGHTON WORKING MENS CLUB WALKING GROUP: Tuesday (I), Jenny Wilson 03-332-8818 NEW BRIGHTON ATHLETIC CLUB: Saturday (PM), Phil Bastion 03981-1798 www.walkingnewzealand.co.nz

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NEW BRIGHTON HILL WALKERS: Wedneday (AM), Royce henery 03-388-7335 NEW BRIGHTON WALK ‘n’ TALK: Monday (AM), 03-941-8999 NEW BRIGHTON STROLLERS: Wednesday (AM), Tess Hall 03-3883237 NEW BRIGHTON WALKERS: Wednesday (AM), Joy 03-383-4494 NO HILL WALKERS: Thursday (AM) (B), Hazel Matthews 03-3855338 NEW BRIGHTON NORDIC WALKERS: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Kerstin Fahrenschone 03-388-0000 NZ VIVENDI SOCIETY: Sunday, Janet 03-389-1609 PAPANUI WALK ‘n’ TALK: Wednesday (AM), 03-941-6840 OXFORD WALKING GROUP: Monday Thursday (AM), Coral Gilbertson 03-312-3155 OPAWA KIWISENIORS: Monday, Tuesday (AM), (BI), Carol 03-3325638 PAPANUI KIWISENIORS: Tuesday (AM), (BI), Elaine 03-352-7519 PAPANUI WALK ‘n’TALK: Wednesday (AM), 03-941-8999 PARKLANDS KIWISENIORS: Thursday (AM), (BI), Bernard Marriott 03-383-2665 PARKLANDS WALKING GROUP: Thursday (AM), BIA), Bernard Marriott 03-383-2665 PENINSULA TRAMPING CLUB: (Family Strollers Group), Sunday, Gloucester Street, (BIA), Rick Bolch 03-338-5156 PIONEER STROLLERS: Thursday, (BIA), Shirley Hitchcock, 03-3227220 PIONEER TRAMPERS: Thursday (AM) (IA), Alan Williams 03-3432216 PLEASURE WALKERS: Monday, Wednesday (AM) (I), Colleen Cook 03-389-8607 PORT HILLS NORDIC WALKERS: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Chiaki Jagau 03-981-1433 PORT HILLS ATHLETIC WALKING GROUP: Wednesday, Friday (AM), Glen Watts 03-332-1964.Saturday (PM), Peter King 03-341-1154 QE11 MINI HIKERS: alternate Wednesday, QE11 Park, (BI), Beverley Church 03-388-5736 Q.E. PARK STROLLERS: Tuesday, John Plumridge 03-385-9710 RETIREES CLUB KIWISENIORS: Wednesday, (AM), (BI), (both walkers and stroller groups), Sport Canterbury 03-373-5060 RETIREES SOCIAL CLUB: Thursday (PM) (BI), 50 + age group, Ira Williams 03-342-8172 or Carol Roscoe 03-337-5901 RICCARTON KIWISENIORS: Wednesday (AM), (BI), Enid 03-348-9351 ROWLEY WALKERS: Wednesday (AM), Lee Tuki 03-373-8150 ROVER HARRIER CLUB: Saturday (PM) (BI), Steve Mitchell 03-3488195 SALLY STROLLERS: Saturday, fortnight, general Christchurch, (B), leisurely pace, Margaret Bennetts, 03-322-9187 SHIRLEY RECREATIONAL WALKERS: Monday, Thursday (AM), 03941-5409 " A SLICE OF HERITAGE WALKS” with Walktologist Graeme Stanley, Tues (PM) Thurs (AM ), Graeme Stanley 03- 980-1553 SOMERFIELD KIWISENIORS: Tuesday (AM), (BI), Marie 03-337-1436 SOUTH CHRISTCHURCH/SYDENHAM WALKERS: Sunday (AM) (IA), Ray 03-332-0555 ST PETERS WALKING GROUP: Monday (PM), Thursday (PM) (BIA), Audrey 03-348-9157 SUNSHINE WALKERS: Tuesday (PM), 03-389-1982 SPORTY SINGLES: Saturday, Sunday, (BI), Llolyd 03-323-6232 TUESDAY TREKKERS CLUB: Tuesday, (AM), Necia Sullivan 03-3389035 TOWER TRAMPING & WALKING CLUB: Tuesday, (IA), Dave Bates 03-332-6233, Sunday, Yvonne van Eerden 03-339-0751 WAINONI/AVONSIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES: Thursday (AM), 03389-2285 WALKIE TALKIES WALKING GROUP: Thursday, (B), members mainly from Burwood United and St Kentigerns Parish, John 03-981-9994 WOMEN WALK: Wednesday and weekends, throughout Canterbury not in city area, (BIA), Pauline Cara 03-384-1921 XY’s WALKERS: Thursday (AM), Maureen Ryder 03-383-1226 or Alison Jarvis 03-338-2678 “Y’s WALKERS” (YMCA): Tuesday, Thursday, (BIA), City YMCA, 03366-0689, Bishopdale Community Centre, 03-359-8330 “Y’s TREKKERS”: Monday, Port Hills, (IA), City YMCA, 03-366-0689 YMCA WALKING GROUP: Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday (AM), Jill O’Connor 03-366-0689 WAYFARERS WALKING GROUP:Thursday (AM) (BI), 50 + age group, Ted Hill 03-323-9311 WEEKEND WANDERERS: Sunday (PM), Marilyn Dean 03-338-3826 WOMEN WALK: Wednesday Weekends (AM), (BIA), Pauline Cara 03-384-1921 30 MINUTE WALKING GROUP: Thursday (AM), Greame Stanley 30 MINUTE WALKING GROUP:Tuesday (AM), (B), Risingholme, Christchurch City Council 03-941-8999 30 MINUTE WALKING GROUP:Monday, Wednesday, Friday (AM), (BIA), Bishopdale, Christchurch City Council 03-941-8999 30 MINUTE WALKING GROUP: Thursday (AM) (PM), (BIA), 03-94128999

RURAL CANTERBURY www.walkingnewzealand.co.nz

CHEVIOT KIWISENIORS: Tuesday (AM), (BI), Sport Canterbury 03373-5060 ELLESMERE TRAMPING GROUP: Thursday (AM) (IA), Trish Vessy 03-329-1865 LEESTON KIWISENIORS: Friday (AM), (BI), Sport Canterbury 03373-5060 LINCOLN KIWISENIORS: Monday (AM), (BI), Sport Canterbury 03373-5060 RANGIORA KIWISENIORS: Wednesday (AM), (BI), Sport Canterbury 03-373-5060 SOUTHBRIDGE KIWISENIORS: Friday (AM), (BI), Sport Canterbury 03-373-5060

ASHBURTON ASHBURTON HARRIER CLUB: Tuesday, Saturday, Sunday, Merv & Jackie Gilbert 03-308-5894 KIWISENIORS WALKING GROUPS: for the over 50’s, Wednesday (AM), (BI), two groups, Janice Cochrane, Sport Mid-Canterbury, 03-307-0475 ASHBURTON STROLLERS CLUB: 1st Sunday and 2nd Wednesday of month, (AM), Diane Milne 03- 303-6250 METHERN & DISTRICT TRAMPING CLUB: Helen 03-308-7011 MT SOMERS TRACKS: Warren Jowett 03-303-0880, www.doc.govt.nz MT SOMERS WALKWAY: Marilyn & Bruce Gray 03-303-0809 PACIFIC ISLAND WALKING GROUP: Ashburton Domain, Torika Patterson 03-308-5868 ST DAVIDS WALKING GROUP: Barbara Lischner 03-308-5174, www.st-davids.org.nz WALKING GROUP: Eileen Ward 03-307-0475 WALKING GROUP: Ethel Powell 03-308-9662

STH CANTERBURY PLEASANT POINT PLEASANT POINT WALK GROUP: Wednesday (AM), (BI), Esther, 03-614-7524

TIMARU

GREEN HUT TRACK GROUP: Wednesday (AM), George Sutherland 03-467-5999 HALFWAY BUSH WALKING GROUP: Tuesday (AM), (I), Pat Garth, 03-476-2579 HILL CITY WALKING GROUP: Saturday (PM), Alex McEwan 03-4554851 KOPUTAI WALKING GROUP: 2nd Tuesday, (AM), Noeline Forgie, 03472-8302 LEITH WALKERS: Saturday (PM), Janette Anderson 03-476-2830 MORNINGTON MONDAY WALKERS: Monday (AM), (B), Kieran Hurring 03-453-4423 MULTI-PEAK FITNESS WALKERS: Wednesday (AM), Marelda Gallaher 03-477-6057 or 027-222-3863 MOSGIEL 50's FORWARD WALKING GROUP: Thursday (AM), Roberta Telfer 03-488-3175 OTAGO TRAMPING/MOUNTAINEERING CLUB: Sunday (AM), Ian Sime 03-453-6185 OVER 30’s TRAMPING CLUB: Sunday (AM), Janice Hodges 03-4894071 PHOENIX CLUB WALKING GROUP: Wednesday (AM), Nina Davidson 03-471-0114 PINEHILL WALKING GROUP: Thursday (AM), Norman Vare 03-4738683 ST KILDA COMMUNITY CLUB WALKING GROUP: Tuesday, (AM), Ngaire McIndoe 03-456-4478 TAIERI RECREATIONAL TRAMPING CLUB: Wednesday (AM), Ian Fleming 03-489-8964 TRIXIE TRAMPERS: Thursday (AM), Alison Jones 03-489-8372 WEA OVER 50’s TRAMPING CLUB: 2nd & 4th Tuesday, (A), Jenny Gonin 03-467-2711 WAIHOLA WALKERS: Wednesday (AM), Elizabeth Jones 03-4898064 XY TRAMPING CLUB: 1st & 4th Tuesday, (AM), Cliff Donaldson 03467-9875 Y’S WALKING GROUP: Sunday (AM), Betty Booth 03-456-2000 60 PLUS WALKING GROUP: Monday (AM), Judith Wright 03-4562080 60’s PLUS RAMBLERS: 1st & 3rd Tuesday, Vern Gould 03-476-4457 60’s PLUS TRAMPING CLUB: 2nd & 4th Thursday, (A), >4 hours, Murray Bolt, 03-454-2211 60 PLUS HIKERS: 2nd & 4th Tuesday, (AM), Moreen Hayes 03-4761545

TIMARU HARRIER CLUB: Saturday (PM), March to October, Alister 03-686-1010 GLENITI WALK GROUP: Wednesday (AM), (BI), Edna 03-688-0779 HIGHFIELD WALK GROUP: Thursday (AM), (BI), Joy, 03-688-9888 KIWISENIORS WALKING GROUPS: for the over 50’s, Verna Parker, Sport Canterbury, 03-686-0751 MARCHWIEL WALK GROUP: Monday (AM), Colleen, 03-688-6231 SOUTHEND WALK GROUP: Monday (AM), (BI), Bev, 03-688-8381 WANDERERS WALK GROUP: Thursday (AM), (BI), Brian Illingworth 03-684-9355

ALEXANDRA

WEST COAST

WAKATIPU WALKERS: Thursday, Patricia Cook 03-442-1525

ALEXANDRA HARRIER & WALKERS CLUB: Saturday (PM), April to October, John Thompson 03-448-7244, www.alexharriers.co.nz ALEXANDRA WALKING GROUP: Monday (AM), Ngaire Turnball, 03-448-8726

QUEENSTOWN

GREYMOUTH

WANAKA

GREYMOUTH CATHOLIC WOMENS LEAGUE WALKING GROUP: Nora Sheard, 03-768-6479 GREYMOUTH OVER 50’S: Graham Schaef, 03-768-7437 GREYMOUTH DAUDLERS: Yvonne Davison 03-768-6664 KIWISENIORS WALKING GROUPS: for the over 50’s, Don Monk SWC 03-768-0775 RUNANGA WALKING GROUP: Pat Butler 03-762-7665 BLACKBALL WALKING GROUP: Charlie Quibell 03-732-4887

WANAKA WALKING Group: Monday (February - Mid-December (AM), (BI), Marion Barnett 03-443-1780

HOKITIKA HOKITIKA KIWISENIORS: Monday (AM), (BI), Pavel Bare SWC, 03756-9037 HARI HARI KIWISENIORS: Historic walks (BI), Pavel Bare SWC, 03-756-9037 HOKI HIKERS: Tuesday (AM), Margaret Stevens 03-755-6466

SOUTHLAND INVERCARGILL 60’S UP WALK GROUP: Monday (AM), Len Johnston, 03-231-3372, Don Todd, 03-217-5931 YMCA WOMEN’S WALKING GROUP: Tuesday (AM), Joan Sutherland, 03-218-8738 BNZ ACTIVE WALKERS: Thursday, Ann Robbie 03-211-2150, wwwsportsouthland.co.nz

GORE BNZ ACTIVE WALKERS: 3rd Tuesday, Susie Burrows 03-208-3846, wwwsportsouthland.co.nz HOKONUI TRAMPING CLUB: Margaret Hughes 03-208-7053

NORTHERN SOUTHLAND

OTAGO

BNZ ACTIVE WALKERS: 2nd and 4th Thursday, Ann Robbie 03211-2150, wwwsportsouthland.co.nz

CLYDE CLYDE OFF-ROAD WALKERS: Monday, Wednesday, Judy Blanch, 03-449-2580, Eleanor Edgar 03-448-6767

OAMARU

TE ANAU BNZ ACTIVE WALKERS: Wednesday, Ann Robbie 03-211-2150, wwwsportsouthland.co.nz

SENIOR CITIZENS WALKING GROUP: Wednesday (AM), Nancy Bell 03-434-5061 OAMARU FRIDAY WALKERS: Every 2nd Friday (AM), Barbara McGann 03-434-9178 WEDNESDAY WALKERS TRAMPING GROUP: Jane Naish 03-4346363 NORTH OTAGO TRAMPING & MOUNTAINEERING CLUB: Margie Carrington 03-434-8484

DUNEDIN ACTIVE WALKERS: Monday (PM), Bill Brockie 03-467-9114 ARIKI WALKING GROUP: Wednesday, Saturday (PM), Karen Martin 03-456-4223 CIVIL SERVICE: Saturday, (PM), Peter Smith 03-471-7127 CAVERSHAM HARRIERS WALKING GROUP: Saturday (PM), Keiran Columb 03-489-4027 DUNEDIN CITY RAMBLERS: Wednesday,(AM) Alison St John 03476-2344

LEGEND Fitness levels: “B” beginner, ”I” intermediate, “A” advanced. (AM) denotes morning walk, (PM) denotes an afternoon or evening walk.

Group co-ordinators are asked to please advise us of any updates by fax 06-358-6864 or email walkingnz@xtra.co.nz

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Phone 06-765-7482 (evenings)

Email: mttaranakiguidedtours@gmail.com Mobile: 027-441-7042.

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CENTRAL NORTH ISLAND

email: eastern-taranaki@xtra.co.nz website: www.eastern-taranaki.co.nz

Whareama Coastal Walk

WELLINGTON

Step into NZ·s Heart« TWO DAY ADVENTURE!

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This is a stimulating and breath-taking 2-night 2-day fully catered walk over private farmland and isolated Wairarapa coastline.

Price from $275 pp. Please see website for details:

www.whareamawalk.co.nz 114 Langdale Road, RD 12, Masterton Phone: 06-372-3722 - Email: info@whareamawalk.co.nz

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NELSON/WEST COAST

HEAPHY TRACK ABEL TASMAN Walk with us on these Top Tracks Small Groups, Great Guides, Great Stories Our portering system makes it easy

www.kahurangiwalks.co.nz John Croxford, Takaka www.walkingnewzealand.co.nz

Dodson Road, RD1, Tel/Fax 03-525-7177

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GREAT COUNTRY BREAKS

MARLBOROUGH

MARLBOROUGH

MARLBOROUGH QUEEN Charlotte Track Service - contact Endeavour Express phone 03-573-5456, email help@boatrides.co.nz www.boatrides.co.nz

NELSON/WEST COAST

SIMON AND LYNDA HARVEY GLEN ORKNEY PB BLENHEIM 7240 Phone: 03 575 7361 Email: info@tussocktrack.co.nz

CANTERBURY

CANTERBURY

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STEWART ISLAND

Make this your first multi-day tramp

www.bankstrack.co.nz

CANTERBURY

CANTERBURY

Banks Peninsula Track Self guided two or four day walks * Delightful and well equipped accommodation * Great value tramping - the Kiwi favourite * There is now a full pack cartage option for groups

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Stewart Island Walk Unique Back-Country Tracks Day Walk / Hiking Adventures Stay on location in calm waters, living aboard the adventure yacht Elwing Tailor-made: * Flora * Fauna * History * Views * Artistic & Photographic opportunities * Individuals, Groups & Families

Your Host, Elwing Discoveries Email: info@elwing.co.nz www.elwing.co.nz Please tell our advertisers you saw it advertised in Walking New Zealand magazine.

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