August 2012 Issue - Federated Mountain Clubs of NZ

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A Canadian’s Perspective ofNew Zealand Tramping by Heidi KrajewskyHeidi Krajewsky and her husband Stephen Anstee on top of Mt Arthur, Kahurangi National Park Photo: Heidi KrajewskyMy Australian husband Stephen Anstee and Iarrived in New Zealand in October 2011, afterspending two years sailing across the Pacificfrom Canada in our small yacht. Our originalplan was to stay on our boat and cruise aroundthe country while we waited for the hurricaneseason to finish in the tropics. However, oncewe arrived we realised that we needed someserious exercise to rid ourselves of ‘boat body’.We soon discovered that we had stumbled uponthe hiker/bushwalker/tramper’s paradise.Canada, Australia and many of the otherplaces we’ve visited in between still havewonderful, vast tracts of wilderness, but theinfrastructure (tracks and huts) are nowherenear as extensive and accessible as what wefound here in New Zealand. The informationabout all these tramping opportunities was alsofantastic and easy for a foreigner to access –DOC visitor centres, I-sites and guidebooks inpublic libraries.We set ourselves a three-month itineraryand tried to cover as much of the country aspossible, varying the habitat we encounteredfrom alpine to forest to coastal. As our fitnessimproved, we slowly increased the length and22FMC Bulletin • August 2012
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