Track builder Ian Argyle remembered

September 2022

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Ian Argyle has spent 23 years building tracks in the Tararua Range
If you’ve wandered along the Te Araroa Trail east of Palmerston North and Levin, spare a thought for Ian Argyle. There wasn’t a single public tramping track in the northern Tararua Range when Ian retired  in his early 60s, so he set about developing a network of trails  in the area. He wasn’t even a tramper […]

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