Sonia Barrish is passionate about taking her kids into the backcountry. Five-year-old Bethany recently bagged her 150th hut, while one-year-old Jordan is likely to smash that record – he has already visited 71. For Sonia Barrish and husband Menzo, the outdoors is a way of life. They met tramping; they were married in a DOC […]
About the author
Leigh Hopkinson
Wilderness deputy editor Leigh Hopkinson spends the weekends in the hills with her whānau and weekdays as a journalist and editor. She has a Graduate Diploma of Journalism from the University of Canterbury. A keen tramper, rock climber and newbie mountaineer, she has written for magazines and newspapers on both sides of the Tasman. She’s originally from the West Coast and now lives in Ōtautahi Christchurch.
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