Hazel Phillips ponders various tramping nightmare scenarios and then stumbles on a real life example. Have you ever had a tramping nightmare? Not a bad dream, but when everything has really gone wrong? Once, on a trip to a dark and creepy hut in the Te Ureweras, we got to talking about what you would […]
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Hazel Phillips
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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Mt Peel, Kahurangi National Park
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Nightmare at Architect Creek Hut
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