Hike the Overland Track free?
Win a trip to Australia and a free trip on the Overland Track with Cradle Mountain Huts?
We stumbled across this opportunity today for anyone who owns a pair of Blundstone Boots (an Aussie icon in work footwear)
Towards Barn Bluff – Overland Track- Tasmania
Head off to the Blundstone Canada web site and check out the competition they are running to win a FREE trip from Canada to Tasmania. Included is a guided walk across the Overland Track with Cradle Huts. (worth around $A2500)
This is the blurb off the website:
The Cradle Mountain Huts Walk an all inclusive experience for two people 5 nights – 6 days
The Cradle Mountain Huts six-day walk …
Want to get to know Tasmania?
Would you like to walk in a beautiful rainforest?
Stroll along a deserted ocean beach?
Climb a rugged mountain peak?
Camp beside a hidden tarn?
Ski across a drift of newly fallen snow?
Follow a meandering river through a misty gorge?
Then the Launceston Walking Club could be for you and their 44th Spectacular Wilderness show is definitely worth attending.
(Click on poster to get a full size view)
The show, on late this month, is a great way to see why we all love bushwalking in Tasmania.
The main feature this year will be the official launch, by Senator Bob Brown (one of Our Hiking Blog’s national treasures) , of the first two …
Penguins?
Enchanted Forest?
Blowholes?
Seals?
Petrified Forest?
and The End….
The final section of the Great South West Walk is described as “The Capes and Bays” and in his fourth guest post, Dave Tomlinson shares his trip report of this popular and beautiful area.
Petrified Forest
The 27km from Tarragal Camp around Cape Bridgewater to Trewalla Camp was my longest day but also one of the most enjoyable. Initially I had to traverse some pastoral land which offered beautiful views of Bridgewater Lakes. After enjoying some native bush around the lakes the track pushed its way out onto the rugged and windswept headland. As I progressed down the western side the vegetation became sparser until it became barren with a …
We recently sent copies of the Overland Track downloadable book to a couple of great bushwalking and hiking sites for them to check out and possibly review.
Well, we are humbled by their responses, which were well beyond our expectations.
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Click “Add to Cart” to download a free sample of our “Hiking the Overland Track” book.
It contains a full listing of the chapters, some samples of the book and a bit more background about us. Remember it is free, you just have to enter your name and email address (and we WON’T us it to contact you or hassle you to buy anything else!)
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Pelion Hut – Overland Track Tasmania
Rick McCharles from besthike.com wrote a great …
Many thanks to Jacq for this trip report on a overnight walk into the Billywing Gorge of the Grampians in Victoria. Jacq has kindly let us reproduce an email she sent to a friend who did not make the trip. We also could not make it, and after reading Jacq’s notes, are quite happy about spending the weekend at home.
The plan was to find a “hidden cave” , know as the Goat Cave and camp there overnight. Below is the “Goat Cave”
What you missed out on over the weekend:
About 6:30 Friday night it started to drizzle, then progressively pour, so by the time we reached Dunkeld at 8:00 it was consistent drenching rain. Being the brave souls …
