Great Walks

The Italian Alps are considered one of the most majestic mountain ranges. Opened in April of 2020, the 220km Walk of Peace trail connects the Alps to the Adriatic Sea. Not only is it a splendid trek through mountain trails, roads, and towns, but it's

RECENTLY we put up a post on the Great Walks Facebook page (facebook.com/GreatWalksmag) asking people what they thought were Australia’s toughest day walks and the response was overwhelming. Seems like a lot of people like to get their heart rate up

PORTUGAL is more than just the historic cities of Lisbon and Porto, velvety custard tarts (pasteis de nata), rich port wines and bacalhau (cod) dishes, more than grilled octopus and sardines, big wave surfing at Nazare and the golden beaches of the A

“ARE we going to see much wildlife?” one of my fellow walkers asked our guides on Day 1 of our four-day Bay of Fires walk. Guide Katie gripped the two-way radio attached to the shoulder strap of her backpack and jokingly put in a call for some wildli

PRESENTED BY SUPPORTING SPONSORS WHY does photography matter? Why do we keep waking up at 4am hoping to capture the perfect sunrise or hiking for hours in the rain looking for that amazing shot of a secluded lake? Photography helps us see the beauty

THIS walk has been brewing since the last time I completed it in 2018. I decided when I first walked the trail the year before, to do this walk every year – an annual journey to witness the change in the landscape, externally and internally. The Kang

PRESENTED BY JULIE: “I moved to the UK whilst in my 20s and met Lynsey in the early 1990s and we have kept in contact ever since, even after I moved back to Australia in 2001. During the time I lived in the UK we started off with a few day walks in t

“THE woody interlacing branches even when not an inch in diameter will bear the weight of a man laden with his knapsack. But woe betide the luckless wight who while travelling through this scrub, treads on the treacherous mossy disguised twig or bran

MELBOURNIANS are a lucky lot, not only do they live in a cosmopolitan city with wonderful galleries, cafes and restaurants at their doorstep, they also have some of the best bushwalks within an hour or so’s drive – as these four day walks show. For a

GROWING up on Sydney's Northern Beaches doing the Spit to Manly through Sydney Harbour National Park would probably be my earliest childhood memory. We would often do the walk early on a Sunday morning and stop along the way for swims in the harbour.

GROWING up near Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, my family often spent wonderful weekends exploring the extensive bushland of the Mornington Peninsula Park and the coastal trails linking the wild ocean beaches overlooking Bass Strait. Bushrangers Bay

John Evans, Gordon, ACT Camera: iPhone John: "An overnight trip to camp near Seamans Hut in Kosciuszko National Park. A new, sympathetically built matching stone toilet saves packing a poo tube. We exited to the south over the upper Snowy River valle

WHEN we were kids we walked everywhere – our family did not have a car so our little legs were used to travelling on foot. My first bushwalk would have been around the Dandenong Ranges near Melbourne and my first overnighter around Wilsons Prom in Vi

“BE not afeard; the isle is full of noises, sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not.” Caliban – a monstrous character in Shakespeare’s play The Tempest – spoke from a stone stage, in front of a suitably tempestuous sea. White-tops cras

YOU hear all the time about experienced multi-day hikers who go to great lengths to whittle down their backpacking pack weights - many even sawing off the ends of toothbrushes and cutting the logos off their gear to save a few more grams. Such extrem

I’M an ecologist who loves making YouTube videos about gear, skills, and hiking. I get so much joy from being outdoors and I want to share that joy, in the hope that it will help people develop their skills and feel comfortable outdoors. There are ma

PHOTOS_BTF LAST issue we featured a story on the Bibbulmun Track’s 25 anniversary celebrations (Birthday Bushwalk, GRW Dec-Jan 2024), however some of the images we featured appeared blurred or badly cropped. We apologise to all the good people at the

A few years ago I spent a week with Australian Desert Expeditions (ADE) as they explored and surveyed a small section of the Simpson Desert. I wrote a feature story in the Aug-Sept 2021 issue but I had so many photos I couldn’t feature them all so no

EVERY news outlet does it. At the end of the year they love to republish their silliest and craziest stories of the last twelve months. Really, it’s a just cheap and easy way to fill space and any self-respecting magazine wouldn’t stoop so low as to