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Explore New Zealand with Aotearoa Adventures - your ultimate guide to travel, adventure, and the outdoors.Each week, host Abigail Hannah brings you inspiring stories from everyday people, covering tramping, vanlife, bikepacking, road trips, and so much more.Get beginner tips…
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194: Summer as a DOC Ranger on Stewart Island and Women in Trades with Brooke Thompson (opens the original)
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Brooke Thompson AKA @sparkygirlnz is a self-proclaimed 'South Island snob' passionate about the beauty of her Southland home. She shares about the summer she spent working for DOC on Stewart Island, after signing up to volunteer with the dotterel team and being brought across as a sparky instead. Brooke talks about fixing the solar systems in the huts, a hut ranger stint on the Rakiura Track, and doing track maintenance from Freshwater Hut to Mason Bay. Brooke previously guided two summer on the
193: Solo Tramping the Richmond Ranges and Running an Outdoor Store with Emily Thompson (opens the original)
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Emily Thompson owns MD Outdoors, an all-women outdoor store in Nelson, and grew up on the West Coast of the South Island. She shares about a five-day solo tramp through the Richmond Ranges in late November, from Slaty Hut over Mt Rintoul, then through Mid Wairoa, Hunters Hut and Red Hills before hitchhiking out to St Arnaud. Emily talks about going lightweight, underestimating her food and trading Radix meals for noodles in the huts, and leading a struggling walker over the hardest section. Emil
192: Six Week Road Trip in the Top of the South Island with Abigail & Isaac (opens the original)
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Abigail & Isaac share all that the Top of the South Island has to offer and how they spent six weeks road tripping around a region that most people skip. From multi-day hikes on the Old Ghost Road and Abel Tasman, to long drives on gravel roads, to hidden caves and hidden coves, they share plenty of ideas for couples, families or solo roadtrips. In six weeks across Nelson, Tasman and Marlborough, they share how this road trip surprised them and delighted them, including a 2 night self-guided kay
191: Backcountry Huts as Art and Tiny Home Living with Kemi & Niko (opens the original)
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Niko grew up on the West Coast near Punakaiki and is one half of Kemi & Niko, who are artists that create miniature backcountry huts. She shares how seven huts placed in the Wellington bush in 2014 grew into a Hut of the Month practice, built from salvaged timber and tin cans. They research a real hut each month, choose an era, and recreate it at hand size. Niko talks about their tramp into Old Cedar Flat Hut out the back of Hokitika, and taking a miniature version with they. Leaving the kids be
190: Family Tramping on a Budget and Child-Free Trips with Shoshannah Shand (opens the original)
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Shoshannah Shand is a solo mum who shares tramping and camping adventures with her two kids to her large online audience. She shares how she gets her family outdoors often and on a budget. She talks through her non-negotiables, decent rain gear and merino layers, hunting secondhand gear, and making her own dehydrated meals. Shoshannah shares about the importance of recent child-free trips and her tramp to Lake Christabel. She reflects on managing risk with kids, knowing when to turn back, and wh
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