Blisters: to pop or not to pop?

May 2023

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Blisters can turn a walk into a nightmare. So, is it ok to pop them? I arrived in Paihia with my feet in tatters. Two weeks tramping across Northland had left them bruised and battered, rubbed and raw. I counted 12 blisters.  That was just my own feet and, miraculously, most had not burst. But […]
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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