Southland’s Hump Ridge Track is about to become New Zealand’s eleventh Great Walk. Lead guide Catherine Hedgebeth explains what to expect. Southland’s Hump Ridge Track is a three-day, 61km subalpine loop over historic viaducts and along the coast. It was built by the Tūātapere community in response to a logging ban and opened in 2001. […]
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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