Te Araroa: "easy tramping" on sheep poo

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A selfie reveals a face battered by a week of long distance backpacking and the Blissful Hiker considers her mortality and how to keep her hike – and her life – from being a bore.

In this episode:

1. The Blissful Hiker considers her mortality after taking a selfie of her backpack-beaten face then seeing a row of wild boar carcasses.
2. She considers how carefully chosen gear protects her body, and how a change of attitude keeps a thru-hike – and life too – from becoming a bore. 
3. She starts to miss mud on an "easy tramping track" through sheep poo, and is warned to be careful what you wish for.
4. She helps rescue an orphaned duckling before the day ends with a swim under waterfalls chased by a cold beer.

If ever there was a metaphor to illustrate the importance of the journey over the destination, it is life itself. For everyone who departs from birth is destined for death, so the journey IS life. Savor it! – Michele Jennae 

MUSIC: Poema del Pastor Coya by Angel Lasala as played by Alison Young, flute and Vicki Seldon, piano
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