John Summer’s worst nightmare is the idea of getting lost. In his new book, Green Sea: Lost in the New Zealand Bush, he talks to those who have survived that experience, and explores what ‘lost’ means as a metaphor for everything from addiction to midlife crisis.

Our deputy editor, Leigh Hopkinson, interviewed John in our latest episode of The Wild Podcast. You can also listen to this podcast on Spotify.

Missed Friday’s feature? The search for Amelia Earhart’s plane heats up but then cools back down, $55 million International Visitor Levy Conservation Investment Plan released, new All Trails list ranks the top 10 tramping trails in Australia and more in last week’s The World Outdoors.

On DOC’s grading, ‘route’ means no formed track – poled if you’re lucky, often not. Mistaking one for the other is how a day walk turns into an epic. Most maps draw them identically.

Topo4GPS doesn’t. Tracks and routes get their own symbols, huts are coloured by whether they’re DOC, club or private, and Te Araroa runs in gold from Cape Rēinga to Bluff.

Built from LINZ Topo50, DOC’s own data, Land Cover Database (so you can tell tussock from scrub from bush before you commit to a line) and Herenga ā Nuku. The whole country, offline, for a one-off payment of $40.

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Lynn Paterson, known as ‘Red’, began a solo mission to circumnavigate the North, South and Stewart islands in a clockwise direction. Her friends said she couldn’t do it, so she did.

Launching from Takapuna Beach, she paddled down the east coast. Paterson was aided by a shore-based support crew who kept track of her progress and helped with provisions and camping. Around the Fiordland coast she was alone for 48 days. Many times she was thrown out of the kayak by rough surf. She finished her voyage on 31 December 2016 after being away from home for 432 days.

This week’s photo comes from Emily Grace who captured this shot of Stanley Boyens on the Rakiura Track emulating the windswept vegetation.

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