Milford Track

Summit selfies on the Milford Track

Michelle & Anne rolled their eyes. Claire had called for another summit selfie as the mist had momen…

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Pivot? I thought you said parrot

"Pivot?",  "I thought you said parrot."With the borders closed, ‘pivot’ has become the (overused) ca…

Pest Control Arthurs Pass

Doing my bit for conservation

Dreaming of a tropical breezeMy toes are going numb in my frozen boots and I try to crack the ice of…

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A day in the life of a trapper

Urgh!!! Maggots everywhere!! I look inside the trap and see a humungous, partly disintegrated rat dr…

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Meet our Guide: Kath Watzig

Kath Watzig: 

Kath originally hails from Oregon on the west coast of America. Soon after stepping o…

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Lockdown Lowdown

Hiking Guide's Lockdown Lowdown As New Zealand enters week 5 of lockdown, it is fair to say we have …

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Meet our Guide: Jeffrey Fitting

 

Jeffrey Fitting (Inky) 

Inky is an explorer and sailor within the more remote parts of this worl…

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Meet our Guide: Marios Gavalas

Marios Gavalas: 

 

 

What do you get up to when you are not guiding?My greatest pleasure is hangi…

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Meet our guide: Jessi Meyer

Jessi Meyer: 

Jessi is enthusiastic and passionate about the outdoors and being surrounded by natur…

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Meet our Guide: Mitch Hutchings

Mitch Hutchings: 

Mitch lives for exploring the outdoors and immersing himself in different culture…

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Meet our Guide: Jeremy Martin

Jeremy Martin: 

Growing up on the foothills of the Southern Alps of New Zealand with active hikers …

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One of the best jobs in the world!

Dan Murphy 

One of Hiking New Zealand's directors, Dan Murphy, sat down with Great Walks Magazine t…

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Meet our Guide: Kathryn Richards

Kathryn Richards: 

Kathryn almost has a love of the outdoors imprinted in her DNA. Her upbringing o…

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Meet our Guide: Sarah Akers

Sarah Akers: 

With a professional background in environmental planning and consulting Sarah brings …

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Meet our Guide: Chai Pyle

Chai Pyle:  

Having grown up in the outdoors, Chai feels very much in his element guiding guests th…

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End of Season Weekend 2019

Hiking Guides Celebrate Successful Season 

That’s a wrap! The tents are rolled up and sleeping bags…

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Meet our Staff: Elena Jonsson

Get the low down on the Hiking New Zealand and Active Earth Adventures team. We asked Elena Jonsson …

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Head Office team Winter Highlights

If it is winter and you happen to tell people you are in the tourism industry the inevitable respons…

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Hiking Guide Training

I’m relieved it’s an unusually warm night as I hide out in the manuka trees wearing nothing but my u…

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Meet our Staff: Anika Zwaan

Get the low down on the Hiking New Zealand and Active Earth Adventures team. We asked Anika Zwaan wh…

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Meet our Staff: Magan McKenna

Get the low down on the Hiking New Zealand and Active Earth Adventures team. We asked Magan McKenna …

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Meet our Staff: Martin Leslie

Get the low down on the Hiking New Zealand and Active Earth Adventures team. We asked Martin Leslie …

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Meet our Staff: Malcolm O'Neill

Home Town?Ha, I say I come from the mid Hutt Valley which is the Bronx of New Zealand, a veritable c…

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Meet our Staff: Ange Janes

Home Town? I grew up in Oxford, just up the road from Rangiora, and like a true Cantabrian have work…

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Certificate of Excellence – Trip Advisor

 

 Consistently achieving outstanding traveller reviews means Hiking New Zealand has received the C…

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End of Season Weekend 2017

The Best New Zealand Hiking Guides 

Our end of season weekend gets guides and partners and crew tog…

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Meet our Staff: Anne van der Landen

Get the low down on the Hiking New Zealand and Active Earth Adventures team. We asked Anne van der L…

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Taking a Bath with a Princess

My son was pestering me that it was time I took him hiking again, and while it’s great to have kids …

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Meet our Staff: Eva Starostka

Get the low down on the Hiking New Zealand and Active Earth Adventures team. Today we asked Eva Star…

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Young Man's Country

 Definition of ‘Young Man’s Country’ – a term that may have been overused by rural real estate agent…

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Adventure Racing

We sometimes take our training seriously

We, team Hiking New Zealand (Anne, Michelle and myself- Cl…

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Meet our Staff: Anne Murphy

 Get the low down on the Hiking New Zealand and Active Earth Adventures team. We asked Anne Murphy w…

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Paddling the Whanganui River

Adventure awaits
We needed an adventure, something different - not a typical get together for a bunc…

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Meet our Staff: Daniel Murphy

Get the low down on the Hiking New Zealand and Active Earth Adventures team. We asked Daniel Murphy …

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Health tips for travellers

Know the Risks
As with any other country, there are certain risks associated with being active outdo…

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Meet our Staff: Michelle McConnon

Get the low down on the Hiking New Zealand and Active Earth Adventures team. We asked Michelle McCon…

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Winter Hiking

The Chamois buck (or Chammie as us Kiwis like to affectionately call them) eyed us from his high per…

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Rediscovering the Far North

The day finally dawned and we were on a roadie heading north out of Auckland; our destination - the …

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Tongariro Crossing

Traversing the volcanic moonscape of contorted lava flows and ash fields as you climb to the emerald…

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Jump in a Lake

Hiking NZ director Malcolm witnessed a near accident at his local swimming hole recently so decided …

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Avoiding severe gales

The Hiking New Zealand team consider Claire an honorary member. Not only did we first meet Claire wh…

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Hiking the Gillespie and Rabbit Passes

Michelle walked the 8-day Gillespie and Rabbit Pass and rates it as a trip of a lifetime. It wasn’t …

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Young Man's Country

 

Daniel, co-owner of Hiking New Zealand, ensures he gets into the backcountry (Young Man's Country…

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Moose hunting in young man's country

Guide and Director, Dan Murphy, gives his account of the Dusky Track Expedition run by Hiking New Ze…

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Stopover in Dubai - Kingdom of Bling

Break a long haul flight in Dubai (do buy)? Director Malcolm likes hiking, exploring, and talking to…

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Lake Waikaremoana - a wild journey

Glenys enjoys a journey through some of the North Island's forgotten wilderness - Lake Waikaremoana.…

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Saint James Conservation Park

Dan Murphy gets together with a group of old school mates each year and heads into the wilderness. T…

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Blurring the lines between work and play

Five things I learned about Hiking New Zealand a week after my first day in the office - Angela Jane…

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Abel Tasman - will it beat her... yes!

 

Who would of thought this was the middle of winter

Talk in the office..The talk in the office wa…

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Walking the Hump Ridge Track

Glenys Erskine reflects on walking the Hump Ridge Track

It has been over a year since I walked the …

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Part 2 - 13 days in the life of a Hiking New Zealand guide...

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HNZ DAY 9
We are early up, and away with the first stop at Roaring Billy Falls. T…

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Office to Outdoors - on the Job - Part 2

German-born Eva Starostka is a tourism student from The Netherlands, in New Zealand to write her the…

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Back in the land of predator free New Zealand

Glenys, took some time out from work to immerse herself in the wilderness of Alaska. Here is her blo…

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Musings on Australia, why we love the place

Musings on Australia's wilderness - why we love the place (but can't wait to come home)

Hiking NZ D…

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Grum begins training for his world trip

Hanmer Events organiser, co-ordinator and brains trust and Hiking New Zealand guide Graham Frith has…

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Eyeballs, Mare's Milk & Bear Poo

Mongolia was everything Daniel hoped it would be. For two weeks he did not see any other tourists, t…

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Mark Brabyn reflects on the last 20 years for Hiking New Zeland

As we mark our 20th celebrations for Hiking New Zealand I asked Mark to reflect back over the years …

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Queen Charlotte Track - A Family Adventure

 
The cool waters of the Queen Charlotte Sounds beckoned this summer and what better way to explore…

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Family Hiking - fun for everyone

 

 

Hiking as a family is great! Walking, talking and discovering cool things with your kids is so…

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