Legs and Borders

It was a day of dead hedgehogs, enthusiastic cyclists, lessons about timber logging and meeting British people. Day started with a long road walk up to a trail, I saw three flattened hedgehogs along the highway, a sad sight especially as the road was very quiet. After two hours I reached the Timber Trail I would hike along for the next two days, it was a cycling trail so many TA hikers rented bikes to traverse it. The path, especially after hiking the neglected Managoakewa River Trail yesterday was immaculate, one of the best maintained walks I have ever seen. There was a lot of posts with information about the timber logging in the area and how in 1970s people started to protest against cutting native forests to preserve it. An absolute highlight of this section were three suspension bridges build by DOC along the way. Other than the bridges trail itself was build and maintained by volunteers! Thanks to the grading and accessibility of the path I wa...