About Us

OUR TEAM

Footsteps is led and operated by Phillip Donnell, who has spent more than 50 years actively enjoying the outdoors. He has led hundreds of walking excursions in NZ and overseas under the auspices of his tramping club and Federated Mountain Clubs of NZ, or with family and friends.

When needed, Phillip enlists the assistance of people who have walked with him for many years, and who have a huge depth of experience behind them.

Phillip Donnell
Mt. Tongariro

OUR NORTH ISLAND EXCURSIONS

  • Nifty Northland
  • Awesome Auckland
  • Wonderful Waikato
  • Captivating Coromandel
  • Breath-taking Bay of Plenty
  • Easy Eastland (with northern Hawkes Bay)
  • Wild and Winsome Wairarapa (with southern Hawkes Bay)
  • Capital Kapiti (Wellington-Horowhenua-Manawatu)
  • Tantalizing Taranaki
  • Top-notch Taupo (with Tumultuous Tongariro)

OUR SOUTH ISLAND EXCURSIONS

  • Marvellous Marlborough
  • Neatest Nelson  (with Gob-smacking Golden Bay)
  • Brilliant Buller
  • Wondrous Westland
  • Soul-building Southern Lakes (Wakatipu, Wanaka, Hawea and Dunstan)
  • Tremendous Transalpine (North Canterbury, Arthur’s Pass, Brunner)
  • Appetising Alps to Ocean (Central Lakes, Mount Cook, South Canterbury)
  • Outstanding Otago
  • Fabulous Fiordland
  • Super Southland (with Stupefying Stewart Island)

We’ve arranged our NZ walks into twenty regions, ten in the North Island and ten in the South Island.
And we’ve tailored inexpensive one-week packages which anyone of average fitness can come and enjoy!