Despite the best of intentions, I’ve yet to spend any meaningful time working on the visual design and layout of this blog. The default ‘Kubrick’ theme that comes with WordPress is of course clean, subtle, and eminently suitable for a fledgling blog. Without considerable care and restraint, I could quite easily wreck things as they stand (though of course, I do have backups — more on that some other time).
Eight days solid in the remote, primeval, temperate rainforest of South West Fiordland. Meet the Dusky Track. Find out what you’re letting yourself in for, and you shouldn’t need choppering out.
I was coming to the end of my fifth day of trekking in Kahurangi National Park, New Zealand, with another three days to go. As with most of the trekking here, shelter is provided by conveniently spaced, unmanned backcountry huts, but you need to carry all the food you’ll need for the entire trip, as well as everything else necessary to look after yourself while travelling through the bush.