Going the extra mile

August 2015

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August 2015

Kiyomi and Mike on the Greenstone-Caples Track, where they also relocate cars. Photo: Matthew Pike
As lovely as the Heaphy and Routeburn tracks are, wouldn’t running and walking them day after day become boring? Matthew Pike finds out by speaking to those who do just that More than a decade ago, Golden Bay resident Derry Kingston had a lightbulb moment. He was walking the Heaphy Track, preparing to drop a […]
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