Te Araroa (day 19) - Te Kuiti to Manawatu Manganui / mile 575
"Easily the best/worst section so far" Gregory In the morning I walked down to The Kuiti and sat outside New World supermarket, it was 6:30am, half an hour before it's opening. I hanged the outer layer of the tent on a disabled parking sing to dry it and sat on the bench, workers were looking at me funny but no one said anything. I logged in to New Worlds wifi and went through the messages, there was one from Nil saying: "I'm staying at a trail angel at Te Kuiti, she told the next section is very bad and people are skipping it and going directly to the mountain" I was quite confused at first but after exchanging few messages I worked it out. Next 10 miles after The Kuiti were quite overgrown (because people were skipping it all the time), Nil was trying to warn me about it and asked me if I'm also skipping. I told him that I might hitch it if it's really that bad. New World opened and I resupplied for four days, it was a bit on a low side...