Award-winning journalist Naomi Arnold set off from Bluff in December 2023 to walk Te Araroa. Her new book, Northbound: Four seasons of solitude on Te Araroa, explores the intricacies of life on the Long Pathway. Tell us about walking the TA through every season. I never intended to go north and spend eight-and-a-half months on [the] trail. I had […]
About the author
Leigh Hopkinson
Wilderness deputy editor Leigh Hopkinson spends the weekends in the hills with her whānau and weekdays as a journalist and editor. She has a Graduate Diploma of Journalism from the University of Canterbury. A keen tramper, rock climber and newbie mountaineer, she has written for magazines and newspapers on both sides of the Tasman. She’s originally from the West Coast and now lives in Ōtautahi Christchurch.
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