2009 Expedition: Nelson Lakes

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November 24th 2009

Published: July 29th 2010

November 18, 2009 Today was our first day of real hitchhiking where we intended to cover a decent amount of distance. After organizing our backpacks, we made our way to the main road to go south from Nelson. The first ride took ten minutes to get, but the second, third, and fourth were longer. It took us three and a half hours altogether to hitch about 100 miles, which wasn’t terrible since ... Read Full Entry

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Chad Stoesz

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Well, this is my third backpacking expedition across New Zealand and it looks to be pretty incredible again. We've got an amazing list of tracks and routes we plan to do that will take us through some pretty remote, rugged, and beautiful pieces of wilderness. This will be a 3 month trip and I'm doing it with my good friends Nick and Andrew Arkis. Along the way we will be meeting up with several of my friends from previous trips who plan to travel with us for parts of the time as well. It's very exciting for me to be getting one more opportunity to do this sort of thing, and even more exc... full info

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