At the beach camp we have a real expert on the Paparoa Track, one who helped build it.
Tim got a job straight out of school working as part of the Department of Conservation team which built the Moonlight Tops section of the Great Walk.
Not a bad way to start life on the outside!
Tim says it was an amazing job. “I got to work in my backyard and build something that’s going to be here for a long long time “It was an epic place to work, very rewarding.”
At times they worked in snow for seven day stretches to get the work done, staying in existing huts and mountain biking to site in the mornings.