Breast Hill overlooks Lake Hāwea and offers stunning views and sunsets. Photo: Victoria Wells

Sleeping high

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Katrina Megget

Katrina is a freelance journalist, life coach and adventurer who has walked Te Araroa and sailed around Great Britain.

By Katrina Megget

There are innumerable good nights on Te Araroa, but nothing beats sleeping hundreds of metres above sea level, with the mountains as your mattress and the sky as your blanket. Here are some of the best sleeps one TA walker had.

The sky dazzled. Colour pops of blood-orange and fuchsia-pink, rubbing into the horizon like a gaping wound in Earth’s atmosphere. Cameras clicked. Capturing an elusive sunset from Mt Pirongia, the highest point in the Waikato. By all accounts it is notoriously difficult to get a decent, camera-worthy sunset from Pirongia’s Pahautea Hut. Clag and rain […]

About the author

Katrina Megget

Katrina Megget is a freelance journalist, life coach and adventurer and has written extensively for Wilderness about Te Araora. Her work has appeared in the British Medical Journal, Scientific American and The Telegraph, and she is the former editor of British B2B publication PharmaTimes Magazine. Katrina has walked Te Araroa and sailed around the coast of Great Britain with her husband. She is currently writing a book on her TA experience.