Geoff Chapple: Te Araroa, the New Zealand Trail

By HARVEY CLARK

Journalist Geoff Chapple leaves his own footsteps in our history. Putting in the hard yards, he walks the length of the country and, in his usual polished style, writes a book about it to bring his goal of a national walking trail closer to fruition.

Chapple walked 2600km, linking old Maori trails, DoC tracks and small towns and had, as he says, "terrific meetings with people - that happens naturally when you come in on foot". He aims to have the national track officially established by 2005.

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