Della and I are just back from a four day backpacking exploration of one of our greatest alpine wildernesses, the Mt Darling Snowy Bluff Wilderness created in 1983. This is a trackless mountain vastness suitable only for the most experienced outdoor adventurers. We return ‘bowed but unbroken’ Forbidden Wilderness: (Well they might as well be)
I manage to get up the bush from time to time though I don’t always have time to post about it but Honey and I spent a week away recently exploring some of our much burned bush. I just do not understand the mentality of ‘conserving’ millions of acres of bush only to (fairly regularly)
I guess ‘everyone’ understands about calories per gram in choosing their hiking food requirements – if you want to save weight, and have realised that does not mean eating nothing but peanut butter – 6 calories per gram or 7 for real butter, no matter how weight-desirable that might be (I have many food tips
This post is an accompaniment to my recent post Small Game. It is not so hard to supplement your hiking rations with some tasty protein after all. A couple of hundred grams of protein will meet your daily requirements, whilst 500+ grams will be nearly enough for your total daily food needs. This is just
Venery is one of my passions. This is one of my all-time favourite photos. This was Eddie Herrick circa 1934 in his eponymous creek in Wet Jacket Arm, Dusky Sound, Fiordland NZ with his bull moose. In a moose hunting career in Fiordland which involved Eddie hunting there for nearly three months a year for
Aricxi make some excellent cheap tents and tent/tarps but they also make hammock tarps. They have at least three kinds: rectangular (in various sizes), hexagonal and diamond. I own the latter two. You will find them through a search on Aliexpress. Each cost me well under A$100 delivered yet they are excellent quality. Their hexagonal
I am over carrying heavy stoves – and fuel. This one will do me. I will produce a version in titanium which will weigh about half what this one does in stainless steel, so under 20 grams! And no fuel to carry. Good enough? This is an update of an aluminium flashing stove I made
These little Aricxi tents are great value and well-made. I have several of their tarps so I can recommend them. They come in a single or a double. The single is A$90 and the double is A$120 at Aliexpress. Try to beat that these days. They are a complete three season tent including floor. The
The Air Mesh Back Pad by Luna Project (Korea) is your answer to having a dry back when hiking. I have experimented with a variety of ideas for doing this over the years and had even come to the same solution myself (and bought the wicking mesh to do so – but it was too
On successive weekends lately we found time to drive to Woods Point for a counter lunch. Woods Point is one of those last surviving towns in the Victorian mountains. For us it is a 280 km round trip from our front gate to Woods Point and approx 6 hours’ driving. However it is one of
