Our Mini Adventures are a concoction of stand alone hikes, cycles and everything in between and are side projects from our main challenges and largest adventures.
The excitement of our first weekend away without parenting duties was too much for Lorelei to handle. It was Friday night, time for bed with an early start in the morning when Jacob’s amazing mum would arrive to take care … Continued
In this year’s Adventure gang alphabet challenge we scored the ‘Q’. Now we are 90% fulfilling this via hiking the (probably kinda boring) Queen Charlotte Track but we should probably get some extra credit for our recent adventures around Queenstown. … Continued
Written by Lucie In the last week of January 2018, Mark and Lucie did a few lovely day walks around Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world. Sorry about all the photos, I struggled to choose! Glaciar Martial Overlooking the … Continued
Written by Lucie Mark and Lucie recently (February-March 2018) did the ‘little W Trek’ in Chile’s Torres del Paine national park (‘torres’ meaning towers in Spanish and paine – pronounced PIE-nay – meaning blue in the native indigenous language). The … Continued
Written by Lucie Mark and Lucie went off to seek adventure and some winter sun in the deserts of Central Australia in July 2017. They attempted to do as much of the Larapinta Trail as possible, in a short amount … Continued
Hello Adventure gang this is Tyson, brother of badass adventurer Lorelei “Cashmere” Schmitt. You may remember me from the honeymoon hike on the Greenstone Caples track. I was the guy who twisted his ankle but also the one person who … Continued
Written by Lucie Over Easter 2017, Mark and Lucie went to Wellington to hang out with Lorelei, Jake and Shirley. We had planned to do a group 2/3 day hike, but Shirley had a cold and wasn’t up to being … Continued
Written by Caroline. Once again I was unsuccessful in convincing anyone else other than Katka to join me for a 3 day hiking weekend. Fortunately, I love hiking with Katka, so we made plans to do the Grampians Peaks Trail. … Continued
22-23 April 2017 Written by Caroline Jens, Julia and I set off on a last minute trip to the Beeripmo Walk, which we’d never heard of until about a week ago, but turns out some of our friends have done … Continued
An account of our 1st overnight hike with our baby