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Can you see this orange track marker?

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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

Eight per cent of men and 0.5 per cent of women have a colour vision deficiency, which means they struggle to discriminate red from green, yellow and orange. What does that mean for navigating in the backcountry?

“Where are you going?” I ask my partner in front, on his first experience of tramping in the New Zealand backcountry, as he veers off the barely discernible track. He looks at me like I’m crazy and points to the faint outline of what could be a track meandering into the undergrowth. “I’m following the […]

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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.