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Overland Track – Tasmania in Winter – some lessons

The Overland Track in Tasmania is a fantastic 6 days hiking experience.

It is isolated, can throw up tough conditions and challenge you both physically and mentally.

In fact, unless you are adequately prepared for bitterly cold and mind numbing conditions in winter, you risk serious problems (and the possibility of death) No joking.

Walking the Overland Track in winter needs thorough planning, excellent gear and experience in tough Tasmanian conditions.

In this post we are shamelessly plugging our Hiking the Overland Track eBook, not as a way to make us rich, (at $A14.50 each, we reckon it will take us 200 years plus to become rich!) but as a good resource to help you plan your trip and

The Overland Track – advice from a first timer

Planning to hike the Overland Track and not sure what gear you need?

You have read all the advice (including our Overland Track ebook) and STILL want more information?

Just love to read about other people’s experiences to build up your knowledge base before you tackle one of the world’s Best Hikes?

Want to hike the Overland Track solo but not sure if you can?

In this post we share some reflections of a recent solo Overland Track trip by Matthias, a young German guy who now lives in Hobart. He did the walk in late 2008.

Matthias has a fantastic blog called Mattworldwide that we have been following for the last few months as he documents his …

The Overland Track e Book reviews

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!)

 Get the free sample Overland Track book

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Pelion Hut – Overland Track Tasmania

Rick McCharles from besthike.com wrote a great …