This Year
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Number of Walks Ticked
12.5km
Total Distance Ticked
All Time
33
Number of Walks Ticked
358.3km
Total Distance Ticked
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The Steamers Via Creek (Main Range National Park) |
25 Apr, 2024 |
Very Hard |
12.5km return 7 hrs |
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| Did this as part of a bigger multi day hike and this section is completely overgrown at the moment. Plenty of undergrowth to throw your footing off, complete with plenty more lawyer vine and ESPECIALLY Gympie Gympie. Absolute forests of it complete with every possible height of stinging leaves from the creek to a majority of the way up . Do not attempt unless you are comfortable bushbashing relentlessly through this uphill without any semblance of trail to follow. Creek was flowing pretty well so we just waded/hopped upstream. Took us 3 hours (and many stings) to gain the main trail on the Steamer ridge. Steamers were awesome, as was mount steamer. Copped a fair bit of unforecast southerly winds and cloud during the night. Emu creek road was pretty wet after some rain last weekend and we couldn't make it past the track (in a stock pajero) after the creek crossing after the road branches, parked up on a nice patch of grass instead. It's also impossible to reach the South Branch remote camp at the moment by car, massive 1 metre deep ruts for the last 50m or so before reaching the camp + nat park gate. |
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Toolona Creek Circuit (Lamington National Park) |
10 Sep, 2022 |
Medium |
19.8km return 7 hrs |
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| Completed in 3.5 hrs half running half walking. Went at first light the morning after some rain and it was gorgeous, the beech trees and waterfalls were awesome. Shorts and a light t-shirt were fine, only managed to nab one leech. The trail was littered with slippery rocks and roots on the Toolona section of the trail. Only saw other hikers whilst returning to Green Mountains trailhead. |
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Korogoro Walking Track (Hat Head National Park) |
6 Sep, 2022 |
Easy |
3.2km return 2 hrs |
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| Was cold and windy in the shade but well worth it. | ||||
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Connors Walking Track (Hat Head National Park) |
5 Sep, 2022 |
Medium |
3.3km one-way 2 hrs |
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| Did this one when some fairly strong southerlies were blowing, wish I had warmer clothes for the exposed sections. Good walk in close proximity of the Hungry Gate Campground (which was also exceptional) | ||||
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Mt Mitchell (Main Range National Park) |
12 Jun, 2022 |
Medium |
10.98km 3.5 hrs |
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| Fairly easy track with an awesome view out across most of the main range and Barney/maroon at sunrise. Was about 1°C with wind chill on top of that. The wild wind was forming layers of cloud that were rolling fast up and over the south west side of mount Cordeaux and Mitchell which looked absolutely spectacular. Walking back down it was like having a whole new hike, as we couldn't see the beautiful rainforest in the dark on the way up. | ||||
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Mt Barney - East Peak - South Ridge (Mt Barney National Park) |
1 Jun, 2022 |
Very Hard |
17km return 10 hrs |
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| Ascended and descended staying up at Rum Jungle for the night. The track had quite a few trees blown down on it but was easily navigable, took us about 5 hours up with heavy packs and plenty of rest stops. Even the views from south ridge are impressive. We thought the cold snap and wind storms were virtually over but it was still very likely below freezing up in the saddle at night with loud galelike winds forcing us out of the old hut site and keeping us up all night. The saddle creek was still running nicely and it was overall very enjoyable, doing sunrise at East peak and sunset overlooking East peak halfway up west peak. | ||||
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Pages Pinnacle (South East Queensland) |
14 Jan, 2022 |
Hard |
6.7km return 2.5 hrs |
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Denham Falls walk (South East Queensland) |
3 Jan, 2022 |
Medium |
2.5km return 1 hr |
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Twin Falls Circuit (Springbrook National Park) |
19 Oct, 2021 |
Medium |
4.6km return 90 mins |
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Twin Falls Circuit (Springbrook National Park) |
13 Oct, 2021 |
Medium |
4.6km return 90 mins |
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Warrie Circuit (Springbrook National Park) |
13 Oct, 2021 |
Hard |
17km return 5 hrs |
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Mt Barney - East Peak - Up South-East - Down South (Mt Barney National Park) |
6 Oct, 2021 |
Very Hard |
15km return 10 hrs |
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| As many others have said, it is challenging but rewarding. Views are pretty awesome the whole way up and the track is fairly easy to find/assess although there are quite a few spurs which diverge. We found the last half of the climb thrilling. There are a couple of ranger's markers on the ascent at the moment, mainly at about 1/3 the way up and then at the final ascent through the exposed gully. At the moment there are a couple of ropes on faces/steps about 2/3 of the way up to help haul yourself or packs. When you come to about the last 1/4 of ascent the peak can look intimidating, there is a lot of scrambling (borderline climbing) in an exposed rocky gully where the east face threatens you with falling. Wouldn't recommend in the wet without some ropes. Descent was straightforward, there is a section about 1/2 the way down from the rum jungle, where the obvious track may seem to keep to the east of the south ridge. It actually diverges west and over some rocky outcrop. We took the east route and had to navigate west back to the main track (on an obvious track) at the base of a big fairly smooth rock face, with a big fallen tree on it. Our group (young and fit) completed this route in just under 9 hrs return to Mt Barney Lodge Country Retreat, including time for exploring campsites, photography, eating and a swim. If we could do it again we would start an hour+ before sunrise. Went through about 3.5L water each on a day with no cloud and high of about 30 degrees. Definitely take at least 4L each. It rained quite heavily ~4 days before, the gorge creek in the east-west saddle was running nicely while we were there, could definitely be used for a top up given recent enough rain. Make sure you know what you are getting into when you attempt this route. Be adequately prepared physically, mentally and with your gear. There is not much shade on this ascent. Use the ranger's checklists for this walk. |
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Boolimba Bluff (Carnarvon National Park) |
10 Jul, 2021 |
Hard |
7.1km return 3 hrs |
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Moss Garden (Carnarvon National Park) |
9 Jul, 2021 |
Medium |
7.5km return 3 hrs |
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Amphitheatre (Carnarvon National Park) |
9 Jul, 2021 |
Medium |
8.4km return 4 hrs |
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Wards Canyon (Carnarvon National Park) |
9 Jul, 2021 |
Medium |
9.8km return 4 hrs |
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Art Gallery (Carnarvon National Park) |
9 Jul, 2021 |
Medium |
11.5km return 4 hrs |
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Cathedral Cave (Carnarvon National Park) |
9 Jul, 2021 |
Hard |
18.2km return 6 hrs |
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Boowinda Gorge (Carnarvon National Park) |
9 Jul, 2021 |
Hard |
18.4km return 6 hrs |
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Big Bend (Carnarvon National Park) |
9 Jul, 2021 |
Hard |
19.4km return 8 hrs |
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