Extreme hut bagger

July 2015

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July 2015

Nandurkar at Blue Lake on the Te Araroa Trail, in 2012.
Is it possible to visit every hut in New Zealand in just 900 days? Matthew Pike speaks to the man who’s devoting three years of his life to the task The more you think about it, the more implausible it seems: visiting all of New Zealand’s 900 plus DOC huts in as many days. Where […]
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