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Great Walks

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Fill Your Boots!
WELCOME to issue 104 of Great Walks, our Bucket List special. Simply put, a bucket list is a series of things to do before you die. It’s not meant to be doom and gloom, but rather a collection of unique ideas you’d like to accomplish in your life. It
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100 Towers Path, Sardinia
Made up of 1,000km of mostly oceanfront trails circling the island of Sardinia, the ‘Cammino 100 Torri’ – or 100 Towers Path – might not be Italy’s most famous hike, but it’s certainly one of its most spectacular. This epic round-trip journey, filled
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Beyond The Headlines
THE Larapinta Trail is celebrating 20 years, and it seems I’m late to the party! For about that long, I felt like every magazine I picked up had an article about the Larapinta Trail. I deliberately skipped all of them. Who wants to read about heat, d
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Action Stations
THE Green Gully Track is a 65km, lesser-known hut to hut, multi-day hike located in NSW’s Northern Tablelands in Oxley Wild Rivers National Park. The park itself is world heritage listed, showcasing unique Gondwana Rainforest, sheer gorges, untouched
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Great Escapes
The Overland Track is Australia's premier alpine walk. This exhilarating and for some, life-changing, journey attracts walkers from across the globe. Beginning at the iconic Cradle Mountain and ending at Australia’s deepest lake – Lake St Clair, this
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The Green Tunnel
‘Red light on lined pages Belly full of rehydrated Constant sounds of adjustments Bubbling brook in the distance.’ HOW do you summarise a 56-day journey, a slow journey, one that has allowed you to breathe and be in your own mind and body? Ample spac
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MILES & SMILES
LOOKING for a bushwalk that goes on for many days, maybe weeks? One that really gives you the opportunity to focus just on the walk, allowing you to put other aspects of your life to one side? Then these Australia walks, all over 100km long, offer th
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Back To Nature
AUSTRALIA is an ancient and diverse continent, with incredible landscapes, wildlife and stories. Within our bounding oceans are the wetlands of Kakadu and the high rocky peaks and rolling plains of the alpine regions. There are the east coast’s windi
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Two Of A Kind
DERRIN: “Lynne and I met at high school at the start of 1975 when I moved to Geraldton and have been friends ever since. We started walking together in 2011 and so far have walked in France, Spain, Portugal, NZ and Australia, close to 3000km of trail
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High Country Haven
MT Hotham is arguably the most attractive ski village in Australia and definitely one of the most popular. During winter, it is a glitzy and fashion-conscious resort, combining great skiing and infamous après-ski entertainment. However, during the wa
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Picture Perfect
Fiona Haines, Pullenvale Qld Camera: iPhone 11 Fiona: “A stunning morning in winter on the Pieman River at Corinna Wilderness Village, Tarkine, west coast Tasmania. Cruised on Arcadia 11 for 19km to the river mouth and then a walk along the wild beac
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Dirt And Determination
AS the plane glided down to the runway during a rare rainy day at Uluru, I reflected on the last time I had been here. Eighteen months had passed since the completion of the first half of my walk. Originally intending to cross Australia, the Western
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A Walk To Remember
AS a young bloke in Orbost, Victoria I was surrounded by bush, and spent a lot of time in it. I used to do solo hikes to nearby farms along the Snowy River and later join with my cousins to explore railway viaducts along which the old steam engine wo
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Follow The Leader
LOOK, not everyone wants to carry a full pack and sleep in a tent on a multi-day walk. Some of you may have liked that sort thing in the past and are now content to have a few creature comforts on the trail and some of you may never have liked going
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The ‘Puffer’ Turns 100
THE next time you zip up your puffer jacket bear a thought of its origins. The 1922 summit of Mount Everest by an Australian team is the first acknowledged use of a down jacket. George Finch (1888-1970), an Australian chemist, is acknowledged as the
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Comfort Factor
AT the end of the classic 1958 book, A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, author Eric Newby and his companion encounter the legendary writer and explorer Wilfred Thesiger, who famously crossed Arabia’s Empty Quarter with a retinue of Bedu guides. After th
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Top Gear For Tassie
THE Overland Track is Australia’s premier alpine bushwalk, taking you through magnificent parts of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area (see pg 18). The landscape is gorgeous: alpine meadows, golden moorlands, eucalypt forests, glacially carv
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True North
Producer by trade, Caro started lotsafreshair.com to inspire people to get outdoors and remove barriers to bushwalking. I used to think that a compass was a strange, mystical tool; a sort of esoteric wand that only select wizards had the ancient wisd
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Food For Thought
MY earliest memory of bushwalking is of Mum taking my younger sister and I for a walk in the Puketoki Scenic Reserve near Tauranga in NZ’s North Island. I was about five and we got lost and ended up walking a lot further than Mum had planned. However
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Love At First Sight
WHETHER you want a gentle stroll or a physical challenge, a seaside ramble or a mountain vista, a long day’s outing or a short wander, Tasmania has a range of day walks to suit everyone. The walks are located throughout the state and can generally be
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Land Of The Rising Sun
AT 3776m Mount Fuji, or Fugaku, on the island of Honshu, is Japan’s highest mountain. Mount Fuji’s exceptionally symmetrical cone, which is snow covered for five months of the year, is a cultural icon and frequently depicted in art and photography. I
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Walking The Swan River
SOMETIMES you don’t see what is right under your nose, and in our case, it was the Swan River. We have walked parts of the river over the years but usually our focus is longer trails in the Perth Hills or further afield. One day we asked ourselves wh
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The Big Sleep
A good night’s sleep sets you up for a good day’s hike. Conversely, a good day’s hike sets me up for a good night’s sleep. Eight hours was the norm for me on the Pacific Crest Trail. Covering great daily distances with a heavy load is exhausting. Aft

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