samvara

What: Ginny and I are going to to do the Bibbulmun track (North to South) next year. All 961km.
When: 1 October 2011 to 12 November 2011 (six weeks).

Anyone who wants to do a leg with us - from a day hike to a longer stint is welcome to join in - we'd love the extra company on the journey. If you want an idea of the places / distances, have a look at this trip report - we'll be going a little faster then that.

Things for me to think about:

1. Investigate very, very light small 2-person tents
2. Investigate a smaller, lighter camera (have wanted one for a while now, the Powershot CS2 is good but too bulky)
3. Probably going to need a larger pack, mine is too small

• Start Location: Coode Street Jetty, Coode Street, South Perth
• Route: Sth Perth foreshore to Causeway, Riverside Drive to Narrows Bridge, south Perth Foreshore to Coode Street Jetty.
• Date: Saturday 22nd May
• Start Time: 1:30pm
• Finish Time: 3:30pm
• Bring: comfortable walking shoes, a hat, water and any snacks you wish to carry

All welcome :)

Hurrah! Consensus achieved - contributions by persons not actually coming still valued. *grins*
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All Welcome :)

Pip, Rowan and I planned a 3 day hike with maharetr and John coming for the first day. We were going to keep on after they left us and camp for the next two nights then maharetr had generously agreed to pick us up again on Monday.

We started at Sullivan Rock heading South to Mt Cooke. It was a lovely day and we hiked to the Mt Cooke campsite where we left our packs then headed up to the summit to perch on a boulder and eat lunch. The large amount of smoke drifting in from further South was worrysome and the ash that gently started falling as we ate did not inspire a feeling of safety. We abandoned our previous plan to camp and headed home.



All in all it was a great hike, we did about 16km (three of us carrying 10kg+ backpacks) and we saw a lot of birds, a lizard and a snake that slithered off the path once we made some noise.



The haze of smoke and brightly orange sun combined with the falling ash were not ideal, but were sometimes very pretty as well.

maharetr and I will be taking Kenobi around Lake Monger 3 times as part of our long walks in pretty places campaign. All are welcome to accompany us :)

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Walking poll says Saturday 20th at 5pm.

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The Stirling Range Ridge walk was one hell of an introduction to hiking and I wouldn't change a second of it.  Link to picture gallery

Bluff knoll from the car park

 

Did the Kalamunda to Mundaring section of the Bibbulmun track with a couple of friends, took about five hours and was really enjoyable. It's a very pretty area with frequent sections of beautiful bush, views across the valley and huge interesting boulders. Only snag was stomach totally rejecting food until about 3pm, didn't seem to matter in terms of energy or happiness though.