WHEN I FIRST MET BARD CRAWFORD, on Ngāi Tahu Tourism’s Hollyford Wilderness Experience, I didn’t think I needed him. After a lifetime of tramping throughout New Zealand, here was this guy telling me all about what I was tramping through. Just let me walk, I grumbled to myself.
He soon snapped me out of that. And, with his stories, his respect for the mana whenua, his knowledge and entertaining energy, I learned heaps.
Bard’s now in his 23rd season (14 of them consecutive)
