The Great Walks Oct-Nov issue is heading to newsstands and subscribers’ hands!
It’s our Tassie special featuring more walks on the Apple Isle than you can poke a walking stick at!
We’ve got the Overland Track - a full rundown on the walk, what to carry in your pack and a bunch of Aussies who have done this magnificent walk offer their best advice.
We then head to the Three Capes Track to explore the Tasman Peninsula and hear all about the bushrangers who lived in these parts of the state - and some who spent a lot of time in Port Arthur, a 19th-century penal settlement, not for the faint hearted!
We also have a feature story on peak-bagging Tassie’s Ables - peaks of over 1100m and our writer had quite a challenge.
“Adventures are exciting to plan and filled with optimism and reward,” writes Julia Patten. “However, I learned some valuable lessons with Mt Anne (1,423m) with a victorious summit turning to despair within 24 hours. A successful summit was followed by a ferocious storm that night resulting in a requirement to hold my tent off my face for 10 hours straight on the bitterly cold rock slab of Shelf Camp.”
After Tassie we head to Queensland and take on half a dozen plane wreck walks. Now that might sound a bit morbid but the tales of survival and heroism you hear as you walk are pretty amazing, like the Stinson plane crash of 1937. The remains of the plane and memorial plaque can be found McPherson Range on the Queensland–New South Wales border.
Seven people were on board – two pilots and five passengers. Only two passengers survived and they lived because of one man - Bernard O’Reilly, who went searching for survivors in this really tough terrain and this story of rescue is legendary.
Overseas walks in the issue include Spain’s Andalucian Coast to Coast, the Portugal Coastal Camino and we have a fascinating story on Scotland’s ancient ‘coffin paths’.
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