CAN YOU SEE THIS ORANGE TRACK MARKER?
“WHERE ARE YOU GOING?”
I ask my partner in front, on his first experience of tramping in the New Zealand backcountry, as he veers off the barely discernible track.
He looks at me like I'm crazy and points to the faint outline of what could be a track meandering into the undergrowth. “I'm following the trail,” he says.
“No, the trail is straight ahead. Can't you see the orange triangle?”
“What orange triangle?”
I point to the bright orange three-sided marker nailed to a tree, stark against the green foliage. “That one right there, 20m away, on the tree. About head height.”
He squints in the direction I am pointing, confusion on his face. “No.”
He walks on another 5m.
“Can you
