Great Walks

NEW year, new walks (well, some new, some oldies but a goodies). We’ve compiled a bunch of walks, both here and overseas, both independent and guided, to put on your radar for 2024. If you’re after a challenge for 2024, this 426km trail is it! This h

Central Italy’s best-known walk, the Via degli Dei (en.viadeglidei.it), has been a victim of its own popularity: about 300 people a day now tackle the 130km Path of the Gods between Bologna and Florence along the Apennines. But the Sentiero dei Ducat

HAVE you ever been on a hike where you’ve been really scared? I have. A few years ago, my bestie, Kaz and I set off on a five day hike on the Great Ocean Walk. We started at the Cape Otway Lighthouse and enjoyed a few perfect days of hiking through s

THE sun has risen, but the clouds have basted its yolk with an egg-white cataract. But our eagerness to hit the trail can’t be dulled. At Deep Creek Homestead (a 90min drive from Adelaide), Southern Ocean Walk owners, Barry and Jane Duykers, arm our

REBECCA WINS A THERMACELL EX90 MOSQUITO REPELLER $99.95! PRESENTED BY Donna Thorpe, Bourkelands NSW Camera: iPhone 12 Pro MAX Donna: “This photo was taken at Ormiston Gorge, on day 12 of our 16 days of hiking the Larapinta Trail in 2022. It was our

I don’t know exactly how it came into my possession, but I do remember finding the US quarter in my foreign currency drawer and noticing for the first time the design stamped on its reverse face. The image was of legendary 19th century environmentali

What's your earliest bushwalking memory? I was lucky enough to grew up in Tasmania with prehistoric rainforests and majestic dolerite mountains as my home. My earliest bushwalking memory would have to be hiking to Lee’s Paddock (adjacent to The Over

“GO, go, go!” It was the three words we were waiting for. As soon as the person in front of me jumped in the choppy waters of Ningaloo Reef from the boat, I followed, quickly swimming in line with the others. Through my facemask I began scouring the

PRESENTED BY AMANDA (54) “Katrina and I met in 1996 with our first babies at the Baby Clinic. In 2020 and still great friends we started a ‘phone walk ’n talk’ each weekend, with increasing distances and time. In October 2021 a girls weekend at Coola

THE history of a long-distance walking trail in WA goes back to the mid-1970s, when the Bibbulmun Track was originally created. Over the years the trail has been continuously upgraded to its present level and 25 years ago Cheryl Edwards, the then Min

A young reindeer was cropping the tundra, barely 20 metres from me – fur the colour of earth and birch bark. Its antlers, still coated with velvet, stirred cold mountain air saturated with low cloud. I crouched between rocks splashed with vibrant gre

Deuter, another German specialist brand, manufactures quality backpacks and their Speed Lite 28L Women’s Fit ‘featherweight’ backpack promised narrower shoulder straps, a shorter carry system and curved hip fins. My first impressions of the Speed Lit

TREKKING poles have definitely grown in popularity in Australia over the last ten years, but they are still not embraced as widely here as in Europe or the States. Here, Great Walks takes a look at some different styles of poles, and offers a few tip

CHEVELLE propped herself against a farm fence just outside of Montbonnet on the first day of her pilgrimage. Exhausted from the 15km hike, she was catching her breath before tackling the last few kilometres on the Chemin de Saint-Jaques – better know

HEAD to the highlands of Tasmania to breathe in the freshest alpine air in the world, to find wombats hiding in the button grass moorlands, eagles soaring overhead, and masses of bouncing wallabies. Wander around thousands of deep lakes, swim if you’