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Hiking adventures across Australia

Australian Hiking Adventures

Join me on my journey’s across Australia

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  • Preparing for the Larapinta Trail

    Any hiking adventure needs proper planning based on several factors: Preparing for the Larapinta Trail is no different, and the above factors can make the preparation far more in-depth than your average hike. Where, When and Length Given the Larapinta Trail is located in Central Australia, it should only be attempted in winter when daytime…

  • Actual Larapinta Trail Itinerary

    My actual itinerary for the trail differed to my planned on due to a number of factors: Several factors caused my actual itinerary to differ from the planned one: I have updated the Distance and Elevation columns to reflect the data captured on my Garmin watch, showing the actual distances and total elevation changes. Unfortunately,…

  • Larapinta Trail Day 6

    Brinkley Bluff Sunrise Up before dawn with most people to see the sunrise from Brinkley Bluff, again pictures are worth a thousand words. After the impressive sunrise I headed off for the relatively short 9km walk to Birthday Waterhole via Section 4/5 Junction. Given my slow packing up others had pushed on before me so…

  • Larapinta Trail Day 5

    The generator for the kiosk and facilities ran all night, couple that with so many people squashed together and my sore hips resulted in the worst night’s sleep so far. Alarms went off at 5am for people pushing past Brinkley Bluff and I’d ended up camping near one of the picnic tables that people were…

  • Larapinta Trail Day 4

    An earlier wake today, 6.30am, for the walk the Standley Chasm to ensure I could sample the Chasm Burger vs dehydrated food. Even at this hour most people had either already left or were leaving, especially those tackling the high route into Standley Chasm that added an extra hours and 360m climb to the day.…

  • Larapinta Trail Day 3

    Waking at 7am and as with the previous night sleep was interrupted with hip pains, I’m just not able to get comfortable, but also lots of digestive action resulting in a midnight toilet stop after a dream of not making it to the toilet – not something one wants in the middle of no where!…