Our Hiking Blog

Lost in the Frenchman’s Cap area in Tasmania, Talie spent a night in the bush without her emergency gear. She activated her PLB then found the track, turning off the EPIRB. She describes her experience and lessons learnt.

From hiking Australia to Explorer
In this post we continue the series of interviews with interesting outdoors people that have inspired us to keep getting into the outdoors!

Louis-Philippe Loncke is a Belgian explorer who discovered hiking in Australia back in 2004. This experience has led him to bushwalk all over the country and to become a maniac in unsupported treks to remote corners of Tasmania or deserts.  His 2008 world first expedition across the Simpson desert brought him the respect from the explorers’ community. Just in Australia he has over 3000km of walking and an impressive resume of Firsts:

In just 12 days he crossed the entire West MacDonnells National Park…

Vous songez à voyager en Australie pour la Tasmanie randonnée Overland Track? (Thinking of travelling to Australia to hike Tasmania’s Overland Track?)

Would you love to read a trip report écrite en français? (a trip report in French)

Can’t read French but just want to see some great pictures of the Overland Track from Cradle Mountain to Lake St Clair y compris la faune, de paysages, des cascades et “Track” (including the wildlife, scenery, waterfalls and “Track”)

We discovered a really nice blog maintained by Yann, called Off the Beaten Track where he has just written up a great trip report on the Overland Track from Cradle Mountain to…

In this post we continue with Larry Hamilton’s guest post on hiking the South Coast Track in Southern Tasmania.

The South Coast Track runs between Melaluka and Cockle Creek in the South West Heritage area in Tasmania. It combines spectacular coastal hiking with some (a lot) of slog through inland sections with mud and more mud….

Part Two commences from the Louisa Creek campsite before he heads up the Ironbound Range, a climb notorious for difficult weather conditions and a very steep exposed climb.

Day Four 22 June

I was up by 5.30 am packing up in the dark and on the track before dawn at 7.45am. It was a beautiful, clear, still morning…

The Bibbulmun Track is one of the world’s great long distance walk trails, stretching nearly 1000kms from Kalamunda, a suburb in the hills on the outskirts of Perth, to the historic town of Albany on the south coast of Australia.

In this post, our “End to Ender” Dave Tomlinson, shares his experience on planning, equipment, food, shelter, clothing, cooking and navigation.

There is some great information in this post to assist anyone planning all or part of the Bibbulman Track – something we would love to undertake in the future.

Shelter
The Bibbulmun Track has wooden shelters generally spaced between 13km and 24km apart. The average distance would be about 18km, although in the Kalamunda…