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Solitary, long ago

Monday, September 28, 2009

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Solitary, long ago

Story & photos: Russ Grayson IT’S PERVERSE, REALLY. To walk  these mountains you start by descending rather than climbing. The reason is that the Blue Mountains do not rise from a plain to culminate in high ridges and peaks. They are a plateau formed when the earth here uplifted millions of years ago. The Blue Mountains are [...]

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Less a town than a landscape

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

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Less a town than a landscape

It's not the town, its the landscape it is set in that gives the Byron region its spectacular character. This I was taught by a sea eagle and by quietness as I gazed over coast and ocean to a northern horizon bounded by mountains...

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Misadventure on the way to the Walls

Tuesday, July 20, 2004

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Misadventure on the way to the Walls

Tasmania, some time in the 1970s. CLAAAANG! Someone slams the car door and the party sets off into the early evening gloom of the rainforest. A short slope leads  from the forestry road to the Fish River. Here is the first challenge. The river is perhaps 10 metres wide and too deep to wade, even if anyone [...]

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Just a minor incident

Saturday, July 20, 2002

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Tasmania, the late 1970s. UP AND UP. Through a dark, wet forest of towering trees. Along a rough track that never saw the work of a maintenance gang. Squishing through muddy patches, slowing as we climb the steeper sections. All familiar stuff to mountain walkers. It feels as though we have been in this soggy forest for [...]

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