2014 Career Change!
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2014 Career Change!

Another year+ absence from blogging and another compelling reason to be distracted.  2014 was the year of my career change from long-time IT Manager to my dream job: Outdoor Guide. IT career sailing into the sunset Ditching the security blanket of a 'day job' is tricky but supportive family makes a world of difference.  Within a month of resigning…
2013 Trail Running
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2013 Trail Running

Where have I been the past 12 months?  Trail running mainly.  My first interstate trail run was the 2013 Roller Coaster Run in Victoria's Dandenong Ranges.  Little did I know just how good this trail running caper can be. At the Roller Coaster I met a girl, fell in love... and the rest, as they say, is history.  Many trail runs…
Mt Meredith
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Meredith Range

Mount Meredith Recently I headed into the Meredith Range.  It was a quick 24 hour trip beginning at a quarry near the Corinna Road at 3pm and following a vehicular track over the Whyte River valley and onto the foothills.  Once the track petered out I followed the watershed between the tributaries of Post Office Creek to one side…
Lake St Clair
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Lake St Clair

Morning mist retreating from Lake St Clair After enjoying the Mt Ossa catch up with my Overland Track friends I decided to zip in to Narcissus to greet them.  An early start had me driving past the Liffey Valley lookout at sunrise.  After seeing The Hunter recently I took a few minutes out to go Thylacine hunting.  Sure enough,…
Pelion Gap
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Mount Ossa x2

Pelion Gap In October last year a couple of colleagues were doing the Overland Track with Cradle Mountain Huts Walk.  I arranged to meet them for their 'Ossa Day' by doing a long return day walk from Arm River.  I had also arranged to do a day walk the following day with a young bloke relatively new to bush…
Mount Barrow
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Mount Barrow

Oh my poor neglected  blog!  Where was I?  Joy Falls...  Hmmm...  That was back in September.  What was next? When I was at Uni in Launceston, Mt Barrow was a regular haunt for walks, runs and bike rides.  It's been a while and when a friend was interested in a walk, I made the suggestion. After a night camped…
Joy Falls
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Joy Falls

I had a ripper trip to Joy Falls and the unnamed falls on Tier Creek recently. Easiest access was exactly as per the map extracts posted by Walkintas on bushwalk.com. In fact, rather than print a 1:25,000 map, I just copied screen shots to my phone and followed that. Joy Falls The spur road to Joy Falls (Joy 3)…
Mount Hugel
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Little Hugel, Hugel & Rufus

Mount Hugel and Shadow Lake Forecasts promising drizzle in the north but mostly sunny conditions south of Cradle tempted me to cross the north-south divide and do a walk at Lake St Clair on Saturday.  I read the posts on here about traversing Mt Hugel and decided to give it a go.  I had not previously done any of…
Cradle Summit at Night
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Cradle Summit at Night

I couldn't resist yesterday's snow forecast and despite it falling late in the weekend I was determined... At 3pm I left the Dove Lake Car Park.  There was no snow on the ground yet and rain was falling very heavily.  Visibility was reasonable with the mountain outline peering through through wind blown sheets of floaty precipitation indicating the freezing…
Cathedral Mountain from Castle Crag
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Castle Crag

Cathedral Mountain from Castle Crag Last week I set my sights on Castle Crag. I’ve often looked at it from Lees Paddocks or the Overland Track and wondered about tackling it as a long day walk from Wadleys Hut. After some other commitments on Friday evening, I set out from Lake Rowallan at 9:00pm and took exactly three hours…