Bloke goes bush on extended trip with minimal gear

[flyfisher]

Hi Warren, please excuse my ignorance but which state are these areas in.

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[north-north-west]

The Deua and the Brogo are in dubberland. Assume the other is, too.
You have to remember that Warren's dubber to the bone.

[WarrenH]

Flyfisher, in the SE of New South Wales. This rugged broken escarpment country makes a plunge of a thousand-plus metres into the forested valleys of the South Coast. On the SE edge of the Southern Tablelands for the Deua and Woila and to the East of the Monaro, for the Brogo.

It is where the Great Dividing Range is joined below the knee to the Great Escarpment. You may have read about (the real) Mountains of the Moon, Marble Arch , Snowball, The Queens Pound, Kybean Range, Wadbilliga Trig, the Deua River, Bendethra Caves and the Turos Gorge and Falls or perhaps seen images by the amazing Henry Gold in wilderness calendars of the Upper Turos? Much of this country is not for the timid or the geographically challenged visitor. Still no human has been into much of the Brogo wilderness, because they cant find a reason to go there. ... apart from John Blay who spent a year doing it.

I once went into the southern Brogo with a couple of archaeologists, searching for rock art around Numbugga Walls. That was a total dead loss of several days and that was easy looking at stone faces. We then went to Brown's Mountain Creek, there isn't a word for the creatures that might live in there. Then back over Bemboka Peak to places like Desert Creek, Stockyard Creek and Nelson's Creek, which wasn't any better. The moment we left the car we basically couldn't move. The land was rotten with deep crevices. If the vehicle had have gone off the road into one of the hundreds of crevices within metres of the edge of the fire trails the raging torrents would have swept the vehicle to god-knows-where. The vehicle would not have been found. This is where Bear Grills should go and try-out his luck ... he should parachute in to Green's Hole and make his way through the bush to summit Mount Dumpling where the Echidnas can burrow through shear granite. That is something that the Echidnas have to do.

A peaceful reach of the Deua River and Merricumbene Mountain on the northern fringe of the wilderness, where the fire trail access is steep but good (then access abruptly stops at Wadbilliga Mountain) ... http://s225.photobucket.com/albums/dd30 ... lues-2.jpg

NNW, A 'dubba' yes!!! I have been inspired by the legendary system of dabbawallas delivering homemade lunch to thousands of office workers in India. Well spotted NNW.

Warren.