Sports & Fitness Anyone enjoy Bushwalking / Hiking / Trekking ?

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    wombat777 Well-Known Member

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    First photo from my trek in the Markha Valley of Northern India.

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    Photos from my travels to Leh in the Ladakh region of Northern India

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    Photos from the 7 day trek in the Ladakh Region and Markha Valley in India. This was a high-altitude trek, crossing 4900m and 5300m passes. Walking temperatures as high as 38 degrees!

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    Photos from the Taj Mahal

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    Fabulous photo of the tree snake!
     
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    Went snowshoeing from Thredbo (Eagles Nest) up to Seamans Hut on the Kosciuszko Main Range on the weekend. For much of Saturday afternoon we had 50-100m visbility. Making slow progress and instead of continuing to Rawsons Pass, we cut directly cross country from Kosciuszko Lookout (not far from Eagles Nest at the top of the Kosciuszko Express Chairlift). With a combination of team effort and some amazing map/compass/GPS navigation skills we made it to Seamans Hut in low visbility blizzard conditions (winds up around 30-40kmph).

    A few hardy souls in our group pitched tents outside the hut. Most of us slept in side. During the night winds lifted to around 60-70kmph. Around 50cm to 1m of snow was dumped in drifts around the hut and each of the tents that night.

    The weather was much better on Sunday. These are photos of Seamans Hut and the return to Eagles Nest, although we did have a few times during the morning with poor visibility.

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    Icicles at Seamans Hut

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    Seamans Hut. The hut is an emergency shelter and also a memorial to a skier that perished in the area in 1928. See SITE OF PROPOSED MEMORIAL HUT ON KOSCIUSKO. - The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) - 22 Dec 1928 .

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    In the basin below Seamans Hut

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    Brilliant thread @wombat777 !!! Funny enough i decided to get back into hiking lately and went and bought some gear over the weekend!
    Any recommendations for nice one day hikes around Victoria?
     
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    Went ice climbing the week before last. Weather and view were ok.
     
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    Wow beautiful photos.

    I'm also a lover of bushwalks and hiking, however I haven't had a chance to get and about in the last couple of months.

    Now that things are starting to warm up, there are some local walks near where I live in the New England area I've been meaning to do. *Starts mentally planning*
     
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    If you want some rewarding day walks (or even shorter) try Cathedral Ranges near Buxton.

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    Fabulous landscape captured with the aid of a fabulous vehicle.

     
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    Taking Friday off to do Mason's Falls Circuit - King Lake National Park. Should be short and sweet and a good one to get back into it!
     
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    Will never forget during the landrover g4 challenge one of the cars completely locking up the hand brake (disco). What we saw during that put us onto landcruisers as our 4wd.

    Just had ten days in NZ - soft options with lots of shorter hikes as we've got a 10month old and a 3 year old (who's outgrown our hiking packs). 3year old managed 7k on technical kiwi tracks on a few different days. Planning a few bigger trips soon.

    After recommendations for Aus/Kiwi walks of around 4 days - looking at going with a couple of other mums as an annual escape. Needs to be relatively easy to access so we can fly in/out. (All fairly fit and capable) Suggestions?
    (Queen Charlotte track, larapinta, great ocean walk)
     
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    Ended up doing Kinglake National park Masons falls circuit on Saturday. What a blast! Felt so good being back at it. Felt like being earthed again if that makes any sense. Hearing nothing but
    nature around was the best thing i've experienced in a very long time.
     

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    Completely bizarre. Very well trodden, straight up and down route.
     
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    I'd guess that he could have been disoriented with mild-altitude sickness and not realised it, especially if he was exerting himself on the hike up. Symptoms can start at 1,500m for some people...

    By the sounds of it he was inexperienced and totally under-prepared, he only went with a puffer jacket?? no shell? did he check the forecast before he left? he went on his own, but did he tell anyone where he was going?
     
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    I would say more likely 2,500 m. Cabin pressure in aircraft is to maximum 2, 400 m. Although I guess there could be some extreme outliers.
     
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    2,500m is pretty much accepted as the norm, but there are a few cases where the symptoms start as low as 1,500m, mostly with physical exertion.. flying's physical exertion is pretty much limited to lifting/stuffing bags into overhead lockers.

    In my early teen's I was learning to ski at Perisher (about 1,700m and first time at the snow), I was pretty fit but I had headaches, dizziness, dis-orientation etc.. none of my family did, and it took me a few hours of taking it easy to come good.
     
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    Beautiful pictures. What lenses did you use? Sounds like fair few of you are experienced hikers. I haven't really hiked. What's the minimum distance that you guys cover? Personally I enjoy glamping. Maybe hiking /trekking should be on my list.