The hardest thing about committing to lead a walk for a walking club is that you have to put it on the program ages in advanced. Without knowing the weather or what else life is going to throw your way. It's an especially risky game to play in winter, but I was well overdue for …
Layatinna Hill: 27 March 2022
You’d have thought that walking over 500km in 26 days might mean I’d like to give my legs a rest for a bit. But a few days of being back and doing relatively little with them and they were itching to move again. They’d become accustomed to rather long walks and I had the perfect …
Parangana Sugarloaf: 13 November 2021
Parangana Sugarloaf GPS route Parangana SL is the kind of mountain you don't even realise is there, unless you're a peak bagger, you know one, or you're happy to sign up for random club walks to places you've never heard of! Having said that, it was close to the top of my 'actively pursuing' list, …
Nescient Peak and Mount Oana: 27-29 September 2020
Once again, some consistently snowy, wet and windy weather had thwarted a planned 5 day solo trip, so when a 2.5 day weather window popped up on days I had few other commitments I jumped at the chance. Especially knowing the first few days of another extended trip planned from October 1 were looking very …
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Molly Yorks Nightcap: 21 July 2020
MollyYorks Nightcap GPS route According to placenames.tas.gov.au, Mole York was a convict girl who worked on the Formosa and other Estates in the Campbell Town and Cressy districts. I'm not sure how a mountain came to be named after her, but the Abels (vol. 1, ed. 2) suggests it might have been a similar course …