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    WHAT NOT TO TAKE

    Jan 30, 2019 4 minutes
    WORDS_ MARCUS O‘DEAN

    Editor of Great Walks’ sister publication Australian Sporting Shooterand author of Bushwalking Basics, Marcus has spent much of his life in the outdoors.

    Bushwalking Ethos is the natural enemy to marketing excess, but nowadays that juxtaposition is blurred to say the least. Here we propose what items to leave behind on a serious walk. Many years ago I solo lilo-ed an upper stretch of the Shoalhaven River in gorge country and I packed “bugger all” and had the best time of my life. That informed my approach to bushwalking from that time on and here I’d like to, as humorously as I can, suggest what you may leave behind on your next

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