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Guide Alice: Podcast

This post will interest Victorians with its plot based around Mt Buffalo in Victoria’s high country.

Moving at Pace I see no value in planning a journey, short or long, and then attempting to complete it as fast as possible. The journey is the gift. That being said, it is ironic that I like to read about such human endeavours, and I do respect the mental and physical resolve one mustContinue reading “Australian Alps Walking Track”

Picking up sticks

Scratch your head, ponder a while. Make of it what you will. I have two issues with this media release. If you look closely at the image there are some incredibly large lumps of wood which are clearly not walking sticks. There are also a lot of really poor looking sticks in the pile whichContinue reading “Picking up sticks”

Island Lagoon

This story is sourced from Bushwalk Australia Magazine. Nick Gleeson presents us with a very personal account of a three day solo trip across Island Lagoon in Mid South Australia. I commend it to the Order. Nick Gleeson Island Lagoon

The Further One Goes

As the car made its way up the tarmac ribbon that runs from Harrietville to the top of Mt Hotham, the setting sun filtered its way through the trees. One of the intrepid hikers aboard took a moment to enjoy the comfort he would leave behind for the next few days. He closed his eyesContinue reading “The Further One Goes”

These Boots

These boots are a pair of Rossiter Scrubs. I adopted them in 1991. They were my goto serious bushwalking boots of the time. They were not worn for any other reason, other than serious walking. Folklore suggested that I was required to own a pair of full leather, thick soled, ankle supporting boots. In theContinue reading “These Boots”

On WALKING and TALKING

I present this essay on walking and talking by E Kaye from the Melbourne Bushwalkers in the 1954 no 5 edition of the “Walk” magazine. We have been walking for a long time, we have been walking for millions of years. We have walked a long way. It took us a long time to walkContinue reading “On WALKING and TALKING”