Best foot forward

March 2022

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March 2022

Whether to wear boots or shoes is a perennial tramper's debate. Photo: iStock/Nastco
What you wear on your feet can be the difference between completing your trip in comfort or ending it in misery. Katrina Megget seeks advice from Te Araroa Trail walkers on hiking shoes or tramping boots. It’s a regular question for Te Araroa Trail walkers: what’s best, trail runners or boots?  Boots are sturdier with […]
Katrina Megget

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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.

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