Te Araroa: in the teeth of the gale

Send us a text Blissful Hiker learns what she plans to do with her one wild and precious life by heading into the mountains when weather moves in. In this episode: Blissful is told by the experts at DOC to keep moving up into the mountains since the bad weather is not a storm but more "squally showers" and very big wind.She gets a late start as she heads into Nelson Lakes National Park around Lake Rotoiti thinking of poet Mary Oliver who died the day before and asked in her most famous poem...