9 Great Walks

Can't believe I finished the 9 Great Walks 6 months ago and never got around to celebrating my achievement on here! Will have to come back later with posts (and photos) of each of the great walks. I didn't complete the full distance for all of them, but I did a significant amount of each one. The ones I pretty much walked in full were the Routeburn track, the Milford Track, the Heaphy Track, Lake Waikaremoana Track (not including the bit between the boat pickup and the road end) and the Tongariro Northern Circuit (which I later regretted, the part between Whakapapa and the start of the Tongariro crossing was hideous, long, slippery and tired me out before the hardest part - the Devils staircase and uphill section leading to the Red Crater). Also the Rakiura track we did the whole part from Lee Bay around back into town. It was brilliant. I made a whole 80 page photobook from my journal entries and photos of all the walks, maybe I could just include some of those pages in here - they might not be very readable though.