Te Araroa: hitting the wall

Send us a text Blissful Hiker discovers hope because repair happens simultaneously with her trailside breakdown. In this episode: Blissful continues her journey of the Te Araroa, crossing the gigantic braided Rangitata River in New Zealand's Southern Alps. Before crossing, she joins her young Czech friend Tom on a side-trip to Mount Sunday known as Elorus in The Lord of the Rings, a magnificent bump surrounded by snow-capped mountains. The river bed is six miles wide of rocks, f...