Memoir: An overnight trek when I was assistant instructor on a bush guiding course. Down. Down I go, ignoring the ‘track closed’ sign. I should catch them up just after they arrive, I estimate. Why the track was closed was anybody’s guess. I thought it might have collapsed as it is steep and narrow where […]
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A calendar triggers memories of mountain huts, summer and winter…
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At last, we have something to break the predictabiity of breakfast on the trail…
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IN SPATE late that day The Fish River At the base of the escarpment Up which we ascended through forest Dripping with moisture From recent rains. Last I came this way There was only a slippery log Upon which to cross And a length of fencing wire as handhold That gave a false sense of […]
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Patagonia' showing of Unbroken Ground and the launch of Patagonia Provisions in Australia attracted a crowd of mountain sports people, surfers and others who like the company's clothing and equipment and how it is trying to reform its supply chains…
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Twice now, Olympus has solved the camera weight and bulk issue for bushwalking photographers…
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A SLEEPER CURLS UP SEEKING WARMTH in an overnight camp in the wet eucalypt forests of the Picton in south east Tasmania. I don’t recall whether it was evening or early next morning that I made this photograph, probably on my Canon FTB camera – a film camera, that is (this was way, way before […]
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A Tasmanian journey… “WHAT’S THIS?”. Fiona holds out her hand as if to catch whatever it is that has started to fall from the sky… small, soft flakes that disappear as soon as they settle on the ground. “It’s snow. Soft summer snow!”, she says. So it is. Just light flakes. It isn’t that wet […]
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Walk to places you haven't been for decades and you walk into memory. This was my experience on the Lenah Valley Track high above Hobart...
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