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You're the first person I've heard mentioning the words "climb" and "challenging", very true in my experience 🙂

Haha love the playground part😂 22:41

Keep going thanks for the video 😊

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Thanks! Enjoyed your video, good tips! Nice photos!

Great video 👍. What month did you do this?

The sand is volcanic and washes down the waikato river then it moves north on the currents

Great video 👍🙂

Nice video 👍

Good to see you back. Will you be attempting the TA again anytime soon? Or are you done?

I thought the sound quality was great. Microphone inside the shirt didn’t seem to affect the quality and really cut the wind noise. Glad to see you back making videos!

No dogs?? 0/10 lol😂

Hey that’s Zealand.

Nice video 👍

Thanks!

This is a really helpful video. I especially like Tip 4, about the photos telling a story of your journey rather than just going out for one or two landscape shots.

Great, honest and beautiful video. Thank you.

Why r U eating dehyd on day 1? We took fresh food whenever we could the extra weight was worth it especially later on

As an overseas visitor starting the TA in November it would be useful to have a better understanding of how you know or determine where you can and cannot wild camp on the TA so we can stay within the local requirements whilst enjoying the trail to the max, thank you

Thanks for another great video! I have especially enjoyed your Te Aroroa series. A not quite photography related question, in your TA videos you mentioned editing videos on your phone, out of curiosity what app did you use for this?

I would love to see some gear videos! Cheers from Germany

Such a shame, but hope the recovery is speedy and you are back out in the hills very soon. Will miss your videos, but hope to see them next season. Thanks 😊

Hi Andrew, really enjoyed your videos from the trail. I keenly awaited each new one. Great effort - unfortunate it was interrupted by injury. A video I would be really interested in seeing is how you recorded, edited and posted the videos from the trail. The quality of your videos and the associated photography was extraordinary. Planning to give TA a go myself later in the year and will be delighted if I get as far as you. Maybe see you out there

Harden up buttercup

Good on you Andrew, always “gotta hike your own hike” as they say.

Hope the injury heals soon! Really enjoyed the videos, my partner and I are hoping to take on the TA next season. Keen to know more about your experience hiking as a couple (although obviously you did also get separated for parts too), how you split your gear up and how you shared the load when you could. Knowing more about the gear you took is always a winner too! Hope to see you out there :)

Keep up the mahi, hope healing mentally and physically goes well.

The commentary was great! It was mostly great to get to experience the trail through your eyes again. Oh how I miss being on Te Araroa. Time for round two!

Relax and recover. Looking forward to future videos as they are really enjoyable. I like the highs and lows candid commentary. The trail commentary. The photos at the end are great.... show more as they best sell the Te Araroa trail and your highs.

We’ll be sticking around :) Maybe we will see you on trail next season.

"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning" - Winstone Churchill. The end is just a new beginning, GOOD LUCK for next season.

My thoughts are with you. Good luck for a speedy and full recovery and I look forward to you getting back on trail next season.

Oh no, I hope the mahi you put in feels valued to yourself, it's an impressive distance to cover. Whatever adventure you post next will be sure to be good, counting of the quality already posted. Hope the injury can heal or be managed.

Wow how that valley has changed. I was there some 25 years ago. No board walk, just wade your way through. My fav place in waitaks. Brilliant camping spot. Thanks for sharing!

Looking forward to Akl Airport and Manukau City Area....... stunning views incoming

Enjoying your posts thank you. Yes date and time please, helps me feel connected as i make art in Lower Hutt. I like verbal commentary as i am often not actually looking at the screen, but i do appreciate well composed shots and interesting visual detail. I liked your acknowledgement of the history of the ground you cover.

It’s one thing to be alone among civilization but being alone in the backcountry can be very spooky! Great post!

Keep the vids coming please. We are loving watching your journey. Onya👍😁 Also can we get some stat's? How long does it take to set up your tent? How far you walk each day? The date so we can see the season and weather etc. Cheers 🙏

Great storytelling - love the little moments (like the crickets and the view of your legs through a rough stretch). Hope you avoided zaps from the fences!

I am loving the detailed look at the landscape as you pass through the different sections on the TA. Its interesting to see the different challenges that are thrown at you. I thought it would be the mountain ranges and wilderness that would be difficult, but I can see that the more rural and urban areas have their own share. Keep the films coming, I am loving watching from the UK and dreaming. One day.....

Andrew. When you travel by yourself, and are not meeting many people, you get a focus on the landscape. This channel is giving an excellent impression of the areas you are moving through but it isn't really encouraging me to walk the North island half of TA. I guess once you get out of these built-up zones it should get better. The South Island half is so different, and more of a typical tramping experience. Hope your ankle comes right. I'm really enjoying these, and you've only just left Auckland.

Like it as it is

Good to see you back on trail and sharing your journey with us

Hi, can you tell me what app you used for TOPO? Are you using any satellite comms ?

Conent-wise, I love what you're doing. My only suggestion for making it more followable for the user would be to add text on the screen for the place names. I love following along on the maps, but my ignorant American ears have a hard time sussing out the Maori names. Or perhaps/also show on a map your starting/finishing points for a given day. Thanks for sharing your journey!

The Oregon Coast Trail in America is much the same way. The only signage exists on obvious trails in places where you already know the way, placed there so tourists can say, Oh, honey, look, we're on the Oregon Coast Trail. But for all the confusing turns and nonobvious moves elsewhere, no signage whatsoever, and criminally vague descriptions.

I can tell you were laboring under the decision about the importance of a continuous trip, but it was the right one to make. It's not your fault that the TA is a poorly-designed route. As it is, with long dangerous road walks, and sections of actual trail that are closed either seasonally or permanently, it's neither logistically nor aesthetically pleasing to do it continuously.

Good to see you back on trail. 😁🐣🐇

I'm VERY INTERESTED to see how south of the bombay hills go for you. After all that road walking and land closures of Northland you certainly convinced me to forget about that section entirely. At this stage I might just start my journey from the top of the Coromandel Peninsula. GL with this next section ... and the fact that winter is coming ... 😉

Beautiful, such inspiration for my start in October 2022.