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ADVICE FROM GREAT WALKS WARDENS

The couple descending Mackinnon Pass were struggling.

“The track is so rocky it’s really hard on my feet,” the lady sighed.

They were in their late 50s, neither had ever been tramping and they’d chosen to start with the Milford Track. They told me, they didn’t think it would be so hard.

Hearing this doesn’t surprise Sam Buchanan, who has been a hut warden for eight years, mostly on the Tongariro Northern Circuit

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