Why getting out for a Harder Hike was the best thing I've done for ages
Chris Chase Photography Robert Bruce, front right, founded social enterprise Got To Get Out as a way of helping Kiwis experience the many benefits of getting outdoors. Turning 2020 around on the Te Araroa Trail Bruce usually organises a multi-day hiking adventure to Nepal at the end of each year, but with overseas travel off the cards in 2020, he arranged one closer to home. Starting on January 1, 2021, a group of intrepid adventurers walked the first 10 days (280km) of the Te Araroa Trail, a track that in its entirety extends the full length of the country. Among the keen adventurers who...