Next three trails you are planning to hike

[the_camera_poser]

So what are the next three trails you are planning to hike?

Mine are three easy ones:

1) Ronnies-Scout Hut, overnight at the Scout Hut, and then have a wander around the plateau on the following day, with another night at the Scout Hut. (My daughter's first overnight bushwalk)

2) Lees Paddocks

3) Narcissus River - Echo Point - Lake St Clair

[north-north-west]

As I'm still in Australia, I won't be 'hiking' any 'trails', I'll be walking tracks.

I'm still planning my summer walking. Want to do a circuit from Pinch River camp, up the Nine Mile Pinch, via MacFarlane's Flat to Cowombat Flat, to Tin Mine Creek - have an explore of the falls and Dale's Creek area - then over the Pilot and Forest Hill and back via the Ingegoodbee.
Hmmmm, although I think that might be more a very wonky figure 8, rather than a circuit.

Plus finally finishing the AAWT by doing the Viking/Razor wilderness.

And the next time I get a weekend off I'll be back up on the MacDonald to Clear circuit. Though that's not likely to be until some time next year . .

[Phil]

Well I don't know about three, but my next walks are most likely to be:
1) Little Hugel and Mount Rufus - that a few of us are actually doing in 2 weeks time (weather pending)
2) Dry's Bluff - which I have been meaning to do all this year so hopefully will get there in the next couple of months

I suppose I should start having a think about some walks for summer..........time to dream

[dee_legg]

The next three i see happening are:
1. Overland Track over 3 nights leaving on the 11th of Sept depending on the snow.
2. South Coast Track.. Going in by boat and walking out!
3. Western and Eastern Arthurs in late summer.

[Son of a Beach]

I'm hoping to do

1. Daisy Lakes and Long Tarn some time in September or October (was going to be the weekend after this one, but I have urgent work to do at home now).

I don't know when the next two will happen, and they may not be the next two I do, but they're the next highest up on my priority list. But getting the time off is rather difficult at the moment.

2. Lake Rhona
3. South Coast Track (via Port Davey Track)

[whynotwalk]

Just short walks for a little while, namely:

1) Labillardiere Peninsula (Bruny)
2) Whirinaki Forest (central North Island of NZ) - after a conference in Rotorua
3) Day walks from Mt Kate Hut, hopefully incl. Cradle Mt and Barn Bluff - during Hobart Show weekend

Summer options are being discussed with my fellow "rugged mountain men"!

cheers

Peter

[stepbystep]

1) Labillardiere Peninsula (Bruny)

Just got back from Bruny did the Slide track, Fluted Cape and Cape Queen Elizabeth so am really keen to do

1) Labillardiere Peninsula
2) A Wellington traverse from Big Bend-Mt Connection-Collins Bonnet-Trestle Mtn-Mount Marion and out via Jeffreys Track to Lachlan in a day. Looking at time I may not do all the peaks but I will try
3) Mt La Perouse

If I get one out of three I'll be surprised, I'm always changing my mind at the last minute

[crazyone]

Next three in order (hopefully!)

1. Carr Villa-Legges Tor-Carr Villa (via Jacobs ladder)
2. Junction Lake via Jackson Creek
3. OLT

Cheers to everyone, enjoy the ops we get here!

[kramster]

A Wellington traverse from Big Bend-Mt Connection-Collins Bonnet-Trestle Mtn-Mount Marion and out via Jeffreys Track to Lachlan in a day. Looking at time I may not do all the peaks but I will try

You might as well add Mt Charles and possibly Mt Patrick to the list - as they are very close to the the East West Trail after Mt Marion

As for me... hmmm lets see...
1) Mt Ossa via Arm River (currently slated for 18th-20th Sept)
2) Sth Cape Rivulet (dunno when, but have been wanting to get back there for a while)
3) Outer peaks of Mt Field NP (Mt Lord, Lanes Pk, Tyenna Pk, Florentine Pk)

[stu]

Probably lots of day walks / over nighters as usual (pretty much every weekend), but next lot of extended walks:

1. Traverse of King William Range (I, II, & III) return (late October).
2. Southern Ranges (including Bisdee) / south coast track / Cockle Creek (after Christmas).
3. Boat trip across Lake Gordon to Pleides / Spires / Innes High Rocky / Denison River / Northern section of Prince of Wales Range
(including Diamond Peak) / Algonkian / Jane River Track to Lyell Highway (February - 12+ days, can't wait for this one ).

[Nuts]

wow.... how do you find the time? There's some epics in there!

[stu]

Easy Nuts...work 60+ hour weeks & don't take any holidays for a full year;
probably still come back in arrears tho It's worth it!
Still that spot left open for you on the Spires trip if you get an opening?

[Nuts]

Yer, sounds like you deserve it. You southerners do seem to pull off a lot of good ones thou
I have trouble aligning time with motivation. It takes something of a challenge to spark my interest. Unfortunately being a bit of a busmans holiday I'm also always busiest when the best weather calls. Iv'e been trying to keep the calendar slim at the right time, so far so good I have a feeling it wont last thou (and cant really afford it if it comes to the crunch) (Iv'e been trying for years to convince people that the OT is at its best in winter )... We'll see, I'll be hoping...

I am also trying to wangle some time for Kiandra to Kossy and hopefully a chance to revisit the Buddawangs in NSW if I can get my 'holiday'. The plans often seem to start off O/S then get closer to home the more i remember needs doing...

[Nick S]

ahh I love making lists..
1. Federation peak is in the books for this summer.
No 2. would be to traverse the DuCane Range
No 3. Lake Rhona or the King William range

[ILUVSWTAS]

Im similar to Stu's list as I will be on 2 of the 3 trips.....

so besides daywalks and overnighters I guess it'll be

1. King William traverse
2.Federation (maybe) over xmas
3.Spires/POW

going to try and slot inbetween there somewhere the western arthurs and maybe a return to mt Anne to bag lots wife PROPERLY!!!! Also wouldnt mind getting into Frenchmans after all the recent debate, but we'll see....

[Phil]

ahh I love making lists..
1. Federation peak is in the books for this summer.
No 2. would be to traverse the DuCane Range
No 3. Lake Rhona or the King William range

Im similar to Stu's list as I will be on 2 of the 3 trips.....

so besides daywalks and overnighters I guess it'll be

1. King William traverse
2.Federation (maybe) over xmas
3.Spires/POW

going to try and slot inbetween there somewhere the western arthurs and maybe a return to mt Anne to bag lots wife PROPERLY!!!! Also wouldnt mind getting into Frenchmans after all the recent debate, but we'll see....

Wow, I'm jealous.........that is the stuff I dream about

[north-north-west]

Next three in Tassie are simple:

Frenchman's
Western Arthurs
Moonlight Ridge

Hope I can get back down next year. And weather's halfway decent.

[photohiker]

Mine are complicated

This weekend: Sea to Summit in Adelaide (32km day hike)

November: Nydia track, South Island, NZ with my two boys.

Next May: TGO Challenge across Scotland. http://www.tgochallenge.co.uk/

There are others in between, but these are the only planned ones at this stage.

{edit} You'd think I'd know which NZ Island I'm walking on... Duh!

[woka]

1. Nevada Peak.
2. Bibbulmun Track (1-2 nights, south of Collie or North of Donnelly).
3. Lake Rhona.

[whynotwalk]

3) Mt La Perouse

If I get one out of three I'll be surprised, I'm always changing my mind at the last minute

Hi stepbystep - a few years back some friends and I walked to Mt La Perouse. Then last year a writer doing a history of some early botany in Tasmania asked if I'd write a descriptive piece about Mt La Perouse (which was visited by these botanists). It had a rather tight word limit, so it's more descriptive than detailed (eg not useful for navigation). But it may give you some of the flavour of what's involved. I put it on my blog at http://auntyscuttle.blogspot.com/2009/0 ... rouse.html

happy stepping

Peter

[eggs]

Peter,

thanks for the description. I note a parallel post on trig points has this note:

La Perouse cairn was installed by Sprent

http://www.isaust.org.au/resources/news ... surv59.pdf

As for my next 3 trails
Starting to plan a 3 day walk on the Heysen Trail near Burra
Then planning is underway for an Eastern Arthurs/Part or all of Western Arthurs for next February.
[Will the body stand it? Will the boys not come for fear I will kill myself? Will I be sensible and not do the Federation ascent?]
3 = who knows? But I would love to get back in April again - probably into Pine Valley and the Traveller Range - the fagus on the OT was magic last time and Pine Valley was 29 years ago...

[whynotwalk]

November: Nydia track, South Island, NZ with my two boys.

Next May: TGO Challenge across Scotland. http://www.tgochallenge.co.uk/

Sounds great Michael. I've walked part of the Nydia Track, and would love to do the TGO Challenge. I've attached some images from our Nydia walk. We'd sailed a yacht in the Queen Charlotte Sound, and left the skipper to sail it the long way 'round while we walked up over Nydia Saddle. It's beautiful country, but full of all the contradictions that are New Zealand. It's "clean and green", yet full of feral pests and lacking in native birds or forests. The Marlborough and Queen Charlotte Sounds are undoubtedly beautiful, but they harvest pine forests on ridiculously steep slopes, and create bad erosion (visible in one of the attached images).

BTW - I really enjoyed having a look at your web photos. The Tarkine series has some especially good pics.,

cheers

Peter

a peak through the trees to Duncan Bay from the Nydia Track

Tennyson Inlet, with obvious logging scar

lush forests typical of the Nydia Track

[whynotwalk]

-snip -

La Perouse cairn was installed by Sprent

http://www.isaust.org.au/resources/news ... surv59.pdf

Thanks for that Sprent reference eggs. When I was there the cairn had grown into something even grander than the one pictured in 1941 in that reference. It's one of the bleakest, windiest, barest summits you'll come across, so it's no surprise the cairn is more like a three-sided shelter cum wall.

Strange though - what is it about us that makes us want to "improve" on nature by building summit cairns (apart from the shelter issue)?

cheers

Peter

[photohiker]

November: Nydia track, South Island, NZ with my two boys.

Next May: TGO Challenge across Scotland. http://www.tgochallenge.co.uk/

Sounds great Michael. I've walked part of the Nydia Track, and would love to do the TGO Challenge. I've attached some images from our Nydia walk.

Peter, Thanks for the info, photos and comments. The Nydia Track got chosen because we were going to be in the area and apart from recognising the names of the popular NZ walks, I know nothing about walking over there. There were some strict parameters laid on us by wifey and the boys didn't want to go more than 2 days so this one popped off the page at me. Should be great for the boys, just hope I can keep up with their youthful vigour!

Tarkine was great, hard to capture though. I'm going back later in the year but not doing much hiking (photos, yes)

I'll probably write some more here about my TGO challenge efforts as it gets closer. I've started a preparation page on my blog TGO Challenge 2010. Beats me why we don't have something similar to the TGO Challenge here, or maybe I just haven't heard about it.

[north-north-west]

Will I be sensible and not do the Federation ascent?

Will you be lucky enough to get back down if you do do it?
Like you, I don't trust myself. I know if I get near it and the weather isn't totally horrendous, I won't be able to resist the lure of the summit. And though I know I COULD get up and down easily in good conditions without the camera, it just wouldn't feel right without a photo or two . . .

[isoma]

New member reviving old thread

I too like making lists, so my next three walks will likely be 1. Mt Glennie/Glennies Chair
2. Mt Clunie/Stags Head 3. Boyds Butte/Mt Tallebudgera.
These would be considered intermediate/ moderately hard day walks in south east Queensland - all involve off track walking and navigation to some extent but shouldnt be overly long days.
Would usually have a Mt Barney ridge on there somewhere but its starting to get too hot - last Barney outing was on Long Leaning Ridge and it turned out to be a bit of an epic.
As for Tassie - my next trip down in January will only allow me to do a couple of half day walks and maybe one long day walk.
At the moment planning on 1. Mt Duncan/ Mt Riana 2. Mt Arthur 3. Mt Ironstone as my long day walk (probably via Western Creek Track).
Current thoughts for future extended walks down south would be 1. Southern Ranges 2. Du Cane Range 3. Traversing Central Plateau to WOJ or OT.

What's everyone else up to?

[whynotwalk]

1) Labillardiere Peninsula (Bruny)
2) Whirinaki Forest (central North Island of NZ) - after a conference in Rotorua
3) Day walks from Mt Kate Hut, hopefully incl. Cradle Mt and Barn Bluff - during Hobart Show weekend

How quickly those weeks and walks went by!

On Bruny we only did the shorter Luggaboine Track, but had brilliant views across the Channel to the snow-capped Southern Ranges. In NZ and at Cradle I had rather more significant, if brief, adventures. I've written accounts of those, including a "fall" on Cradle, on my blog at http://auntyscuttle.blogspot.com/?zx=82930543f5e99605 (scroll down or use the archive menu for older posts)

We're now considering doing parts of the Penguin-Cradle Trail. Does anyone have any experience doing it from the Cradle end? We're thinking of doing the sections from Cradle to Gunns Plains. I've got the NWWC guide as well as Chapman, and have seen some pix on this forum. But any additional thoughts would be appreciated,

cheers

Peter

PS - a couple of pix from Whirinaki and Cradle attached. The Cradle shot shows the spot where I "slipped". I was standing beneath and against the lowest set of boulders in the middle of the pic. Read the blog for a description of the "fun" that ensued.

[photohiker]

Just thought I'd update with the Nydia Track walk. It was a lot of fun with the boys. Initially, they kinda went on the walk 'because they had to', but when asked at the end of the trip what the best part was, they nominated the walk. Whodathought!

The Yellow dot represents the overnight stop at Nydia Bay. We stayed at Te Mahoerangi Eco Lodge (excellent) and had the place to ourselves, including the walking. Weather was warm (high 20's) and the track was easy to follow, much of it through temperate rainforest. Not too much water about then, you'd have to watch it in summer.

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Nydia Bay from the Nydia Saddle

When we got to the end of the track, we had an hour or so to kill at Duncan Bay waiting for the water taxi. Much of that time was spent being entertained by this inquisitive Weka:

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Water Taxi service was brilliant, if a little expensive. We had originally planned to take the shuttle bus from Duncan Bay, but the owner had taken the week off to go Hang Gliding or something and just closed the doors for the week. ?? WT *$&# ??

Anyway, good easy walk in pleasant country.

[MichaelP]

1) Frenchmans, Irenabyss, Ragland Range.
2) Pine Valley and surrounding peaks. (possibly kayak stclair but thats a dream more than realistic)
3) Southern Half of the Mt anne circuit - just did top half but didnt have time to do all with NE Ridge. - possibly add Schnells Ridge.

Probably will do many other walks before but these three and W. Arthurs + Fedders are on the list.

[WarrenH]

The next three trips are to the Brindabella Ranges, the Budawang Range and into the northern end of Kosci.

I'm going later today to look for better high locations to photograph a swamp up in the Brindies. High winds have ruined the last couple of attempts at doing photography at Nursery Swamp. The fire trail starting at the Nursery Swamp car park is the quickest route into the swamp. It is a good swamp with much wildlife. I hope to improve on the shots that I have taken so far.






Next week I'm going to the Budawang Range. I've spent a lot of time in the Budawangs over the last few decades. I did a trip just after Christmas into Gilbert's Gap from the Endrick River and rushed the trip. Next week I'll take my time doing photography. I'll follow the track from near the Endrick River Road, south past Foster's Mountain to some of the 'many rock ribs' just north of Style's Creek. Two shots from Shrouded God's Mountain.






The third trip in early February will be a mountain bike trip with day walks starting from Yaouk riding on the Lone Pine Fire Trail into the 'Frost Plains of the North'. I've been bike riding and walking the Bicentennial National Trail in New South Wales and the ACT. When I leave the BNT I'll camp in the huts and follow some of the fire trails to the west of Long Plain. The tracks are mostly well drained and good easy mountain biking. There are several huts that I haven't seen west of Long Plain. A few shots from out that way.

Coolamine at Coolamon and above the Frost Plains of the North.






Warren.