Shaun Barnett profiles 12 different types of tramper – which one are you? Once, on the Heaphy Track, I followed a tramper with a rubbish bin lid strapped to his back. Not a plastic one; but a heavy, metal one. I don’t know why he did this. Still don’t. While trekking in Chile, I met […]
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