Approaching Pelion Gap in the snow
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Lap of Pelion East – August 2020

Approaching Pelion Gap in the snow In 2011, on an autumn mission to Kia Ora Falls and Castle Crag, I was walking the Overland Track just past Kia Ora hut around 11am. An unlikely group of runners approached from the south. The foursome had light packs and were moving freely and quickly compared with me and my full multi-day…
Lake,Mountain,Lookout
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Cradle and Barn – January 2020

If there was an origin for my bushwalking, it's the Cradle Mountain area.  The first walk I can remember was the old Dove Lake circuit before the lake level track made it the tourist-friendly doddle it is today.  I was four years old.  Amazingly mum and dad were also hauling my two younger siblings on the epic journey through…
kooparoona niara / Great Western Tiers
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Tassie’s World Heritage Listed Potential Production Forest

Final day of submissions on this issue.  Here's what I've sent: Dear Natural Heritage Policy Team, Thank you for the opportunity to make submissions regarding the reservation of Future Potential Production Forest Land (FPPFL) within the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area (TWWHA). In March 2016 Minister Groom said, “The Tasmanian Government welcomes the report of the World Heritage monitoring…
Crossing Winterbrook
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PCT and Reynolds Falls

https://www.youtube.com/embed/hAhTzgQIDnM Tasmania's Overland Track (OT) has a little-known, younger sibling, the Penguin to Cradle Trail or PCT for short.  While the OT was conceived in 1931 by rangers at opposite ends of a park, the PCT was imagined and built into existence by members of the North-West Walking Club in 1972, the year I was born!  As a child…
South Point
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South Point

A day trip from Tidal River to South Point via Oberon Bay then return via Telegraph Saddle in one of Australia's reputedly busiest national parks. How many people do you think we met? None! Little Oberon Bay Oberon Bay Well, to be exact we saw 2 walkers heading away from us towards the lighthouse at Roaring Meg but they…
Tarkine Falls
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Tarkine Falls – May & June 2008

A couple of 10-year-old posts from my old old blog... Tarkine Falls May 2008 Recently I had the opportunity to complete part of the Tarkine Rainforest Track south of the Arthur River in the state's north-west.  The Tarkine is an area which many people still find hard to define.  It is a vast area of rainforest, remote mountains and…
If Aus Mtn Running Champs Were One Week Later…
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If Aus Mtn Running Champs Were One Week Later…

Fresh Autumn snow blanketed kunanyi / Mount Wellington a couple of Sunday's ago.  It was exactly a week after our mountain hosted the Australian Trail Running Championships.  What if the snow and the championships coincided? Panorama Track Settled snow would have been encountered at the event's halfway mark on the steep Old Hobartians track.  Front runners would have encountered…