Making history

March 2014

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March 2014

A century from now, those exploring the Old Ghost Rd will celebrate the work of today’s conservationists in protecting and rebuilding the trail Photo: Phil Rossiter
  Mick Abbott cycles parts of the Old Ghost Rd and discovers history is not just something that has happened, it’s being made right here and now Somewhere I’d been told of an old horse trail cut up the side of a West Coast river that was potentially bike-able. Rides over Harpers Pass, and up […]

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