A MUDDY TRAIL
I RECEIVED AN INTERESTING letter this month from a reader who walked the Te Araroa Trail over two summers (see Pigeon post, p6). Jude was writing in response to the story published in October called ‘A trail of two halves’. In that story, the author recounted how many thru-hikers on the TA skipped large sections of the North Island because of the seemingly endless road sections and copious amounts of mud. Jude says she loved both the North Island and South Island sections but also admitted to having an issue with the amount of mud and road walking she had to endure. Because there’s much less conservation estate in the North Island than there is in the South Island, there are more road walking sections there. I can understand that. But why…
