Mind games on the Hokitika

October 2015

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October 2015

Swingbridge above the Mungo River. Photo: Neil Silverwood
Lauren Kelley battles all the West Coast can throw at her in a soggy escapade through classic West Coast backcountry The first time I made plans to tramp the Toaroha-Hokitika- lower Whitcombe loop, the weather was worse than that endured by the early explorers, Henry Whitcombe and Jakob Lauper, on their fateful journey through the […]

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