Mountain walks like the Routeburn require extra care when it comes to preparing for the weather. Photo: Matthew Chan

You always take the weather

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Katrina Megget

Katrina is a freelance journalist, life coach and adventurer who has walked Te Araroa and sailed around Great Britain.

By Katrina Megget

It needn’t be the scenery that makes a Great Walk memorable; it can be the weather.

Red Crater is just there. Somewhere in the gloom. Maybe 300m away. But I can’t see it. There’s swirling cloud that reduces visibility to 10m, pelting tiny icey bullets of rain, and ferocious winds that pull me in 101 directions at once. It’s getting dicey on this most exposed stretch of the Tongariro Alpine Crossing, […]

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Katrina Megget

Katrina Megget is a freelance journalist, life coach and adventurer and has written extensively for Wilderness about Te Araora. Her work has appeared in the British Medical Journal, Scientific American and The Telegraph, and she is the former editor of British B2B publication PharmaTimes Magazine. Katrina has walked Te Araroa and sailed around the coast of Great Britain with her husband. She is currently writing a book on her TA experience.