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YouTube Shorts of the hike to Totara Flats Hut is up! Spoiler alert, Dad smashes it.

Hiking to Totara Flats | Swing Bridges | Tararua Ranges #shorts hiked to Totara Flats and back in a day from the Holdsworth campsite. It was awesome but really hard. As most worthwhile thin...

There’s a new blog up about a new video that’s also up. In both I talk about how hiking is making me rethink what failure means for me and why it’s not actually that bad.

Let me know what you think in the comments!

Failure is OK I used to think that I needed to finish every hike. Preferably as quickly as is possible. Sometimes I ignored the views and sometimes I made poor calls about continuing when the weather or my body …

The latest “exciting” blog is available. Give it a read.

Hiking Mt Holdsworth Hiking to the summit of Mt Holdsworth in a day is challenging, yet rewarding.

Here’s a blog about the Dobson Loop. If you haven’t done this track you’re not as cool as my dad.

The Dobson Loop I absolutely loved this trail. It’s probably my favourite hike so far. Some key points: You’ll need sturdy footwear with good grip.A trekking pole is very helpful.There isn’t a lot of water for the…

Here’s a video, hopefully it’s outstanding. 25km of the best sheep p**p you’ll ever see.

Hiking the Belmont Traverse | Wellington, New Zealand.

Hiking the Belmont Traverse | Wellington, New Zealand. Belmont Traverse (Puke Ariki) is amazing. It's a great challenging day hike and I'm so excited to show people this video of ...

And then there was a website:

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The Puke Ariki Traverse was good today - might have broken my camera though. It’s going to be a weird video.

I’m going to post videos here rather than on my page because YouTube analytics tells me that most of my friends on Facebook don’t watch the videos - and honestly that just says they’re smart people.

Don’t feel any pressure to watch them. They’ll just be here if you want to see them.

Feel free to share the page to people you think might be interested - but again, no pressure.

Upcoming hikes in no particular order:

The Puke Ariki Traverse (Petone to Dry Creek)
Mt Matthews
The Papatahi Crossing
Te Whiti Riser
More hikes along the Tauherenikau river
The Tongariro Crossing
The Tongariro Northern Circuit
Old Ghost Road
The Pouakai Circuit
The Jumbo Circuit

If anyone has any trail suggestions I’d love to hear them.