
How I Plan My Hikes (Finding trails and creating a new long-distance route)
This post is to help hikers who want to explore the wild for weeks or months, but don’t want to stick to the official long-distance

This post is to help hikers who want to explore the wild for weeks or months, but don’t want to stick to the official long-distance

I’m really excited I wrote a story for GLAMOUR! If you’re interested in backpacking and curious about how to get into it, this is a good tale of what you probably don’t want your first trip to be like. But let me tell you, it was definitely an adventure!

A week after finishing the South Coast Track, I walked the remaining stretch back to Hobart and I had done it: I walked around Tasmania,

I had spent five days walking the Port Davey Track, which was as traumatising as it was powerful, and a blissful afternoon and early morning

The Wild West of Tasmania had been the first true taste of walking through a remote and vastly deserted area, but crossing the Southwest National

“You’re a legend!” The guy yelled out from the back of the van. I had to laugh. I had just told the young group in

The evening grew closer and darker and from inside my tent I heard the wind raging, louder and louder, while the rain plummeted agressively onto

A tale of early struggles and the kindness of people The first few weeks walking around Tasmania were a shock to the system. Physically, mentally

In my hand I was holding one of my Sea to Summit stuff sacks, the small green one, filled with zip lock bags containing coffee
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