Hello! Welcome to our blog ‘Trail Mix’. We are very excited to have our digital doors open to the world and we welcome you to our website! I had the pleasure of completing the Kokoda Track in 2017. I will be honest, when I was in the middle of it ‘pleasure’ probably wasn’t the first word that came to mind. Since then however, many things have changed, my perspective in particular and for me, the Kokoda Track now sets the bar for all other treks in physicality and sheer mental grit. Yes there are treks that offer higher ascents and deeper descents but when you put everything together that make up Kokoda, nothing else comes close. I hope you find my contribution to our inaugural blog, ‘Finding my Footing’ helpful in offering you a mental glimpse of what being on the Kokoda Track is like; trust me though, although everyone’s experience will be different, the feeling of accomplishment when you reach the finish line will feed your soul forever. DC Finding My Footing Heading to the start of the trek and flying over the forest canopy, I couldn’t help but wonder how we would ever find a place to land. The forest seemed to go on and on forever, the greenness subtly changed only by the shadows of the steep ridges and the deep valleys. It felt a bit surreal that we were actually in Papua New Guinea and I was sitting in a tiny eleven passenger plane being flown by someone who really didn’t look old enough to be the pilot. I was seriously tempted to ask him if his mother knew where he was and what he was doing. There were 8 of us, 9 with the pilot, and 10 if you counted the young man who managed to
Hello! Welcome to our blog ‘Trail Mix’. We are very excited to have our digital doors open to the world and we welcome you to our website! I had the pleasure of completing the Kokoda Track in 2017. I will be honest, when I was in the middle of it ‘pleasure’ probably wasn’t the first
