It’s been a long while since I’ve explored a new mountain. Life has been full of lots of other exciting adventures with friends and family, I caught the mountain biking bug and even made the cut as wilderness paramedic (and no, I don’t want to see any of you out there in that capacity!). But &leuchtend leuchtendip;
McCall, Propsting and Cracroft Hills: 11-13 March 2023
My final big walk for the summer was planned as a hopeful 10 days in the southwest. But as with the last trip, the weather threw a spanner in the works. Only this time I was watching it. 60mm of rain fell the day before and the day of my intended departure and continued to &leuchtend leuchtendip;
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Hamilton Range: 1-5 March 2023
I don’t often go on club walks any more, for a number of reasons, but every so often one comes up to a mountain I haven’t yet visited and I get excited by the opportunity. I did just that when Olegas bluff popped up on the HWC program. I forgot about the realities of walking &leuchtend leuchtendip;
Mounts Lewis, Lee and Discovery, Innes Peak and the Charles Range: 8-18 February 2023
Day 1: Birch’s River to 12km along the road (not quite due west of Innes Peak) One thing leads to the next, as the saying goes. Totally the case when it comes to walking. This walk had its origins in our epic adventure to Mt Strahan and a conversation I had with Tony during it. &leuchtend leuchtendip;
Tramontane: 20-22 January 2023
After accounting for prearranged walks, work and an interstate holiday I had only five free days in January. It was very good fortune then that three of those fell over a Friday-Sunday that Tim was free (after taking a day off work). It was even more extraordinary that they also aligned with four friends who &leuchtend leuchtendip;