Planning the resupply was the most challenging part of planning this adventure. There are a lot of remote areas I travel through and not many large towns. In order to reduce the weight of food carried I would have preferred to be able to resupply every 5 days but this is not possible most ofContinue Reading “Resupply Plan”
I have finished the detailed planning for my route and am looking at just under 2,600 km. This distance is based on google creating routes. The routes smooth out the bends in the track so I think the actual distance will probably be around 2,600km. You can access the kml file on googgle earth whichContinue Reading “Detailed Route Planing Finished”
The full gear list and weights is at the bottom of the post I am expecting to start with a base weight (weight of all gear less food, water and consumables) of 7.659 kg (16.89 lb) I am basing a lot of my decisions about gear on my experiences on Te Araroa and research onContinue Reading “Gear for NPL”
The first decision I had to make was what direction to walk in. Slightly more people walk north than south as it is easy to get to and they can get their trail legs of the roads before heading into the wilderness. Also it is warmer in the south and not as much snow toContinue Reading “What Direction to Walk”
As there is no official route there were a lot of decisions to make to select my route. I researched through blogs to see what other people did and where possible download GPX tracks. I also found on www.traildino.com a GPX track for the E1 trail which is ¾ of the NPL and also someContinue Reading “What Route to Take”