Everyone has them, surely: dirty little secrets about their personal tramping habits.
We all have a secret tramping shame, I theorise. A shame held within, clutched tightly like a cuddly toy at bedtime. I was in a mountain lodge when my friend Jason (yes, Jason of the Tinder article, Wilderness July 2022) volunteered to make me a coffee. I had made him one the day before, so […]
Hazel Phillips is an alpine adventurer and the author of Fire & Ice, Solo, and Great Hearts. A firm believer that ‘you can’t be what you can’t see’, she’s passionate about representation in the outdoors. She is a self-confessed Ruapehu addict, and she’s never met a topo map she didn’t get along with.
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My secret tramping shame
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