In the bowels of bush-bashing bastardry

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On the way to Anatoki Peak. Photo: David Caudwell
David Caudwell plunges into the mangled slopes of the Douglas Range to discover how disorientation, despair and anger can be used not only to forge stronger paths on the trail, but also in everyday, suburban life. It’s been over three hours since I last saw a cairn.  My mind replays the small snowgrass plain where […]

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