After more than half a year of setting aside possible walking weekends where I wasn’t working and Tim didn’t have his boys, we finally managed to get one that coincided with good weather in the southwest! A last minute message to his work and he’d secured Friday off, to give us three days in the …
Mount Braddon and Bob’s Knobs: 23 March- 1 April 2024
It’s always fun when you have crazy peak bagger friends keen to climb the less frequently visited scrubby mountains. This one had been an idea for a while, and though work tried to intervene by cancelling my leave and not being able to reallocate it, we were not deterred. We simply had to fit all …
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Princess and Elliot ranges: 13-19 February 2024
Persistent and regular rain in the west and southwest this summer meant I half expected this walk to be rescheduled. We’d already committed to the $100 per person each way fare on the World Heritage Cruise boat, which would drop us off and pick us up from Heritage landing. That wasn’t quite as close as …
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Darkes Peak: 28 January 2024
Tim and I had been planning a 4 day walk that would fit between his duties as a father and taking minimal time off work. We thought the Australia Day long weekend would make for a perfect opportunity. It did, until the weather decided otherwise. There was a solid forecast for heavy rain for the …