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Launceston – Overland Track, Tasmania, Australia

Info on Launceston, a main starting/ending point f

The Big O: Tasmania’s Overland Track – Overland Track, Tasmania, Australia

All about the Big O.

Hobart – Overland Track, Tasmania, Australia

Tasmania’s capital is a popular place to end, or b

Getting There – Overland Track, Tasmania, Australia

How to get to Tassie – and the track.

Gearing Up and Packing Out – Overland Track, Tasmania, Australia

How to survive on the trail: gear and packing advi

Hobart Travel Facts

The Basics
City Name: Hobart

Where is it located?: Hobart is located on the southeast coast of Tasmania. Tasmania is an island state off the south of Australia, on the eastern side.

Why do people go there?: Hobart is the capital of Tasmania, a state only 3% of all tourists to Australia get [...]

Rainbows and The Roaring Forties – Tasmania, Australia

Lea Taddonio’s short venture into the southernmost

Gunning Cradle Mountain – Overland Track, Tasmania, Australia

Gerald Moller hiked a supposed eight hour trail in

In The Cradle of God (8 of 8)

In hindsight my irrationality was equally a symptom of hyperthermia and I had no idea what my face looked like. I was also stumbling as I walked, a further symptom.

“Hiro, do we want to die here?”
“No.”
“Let’s get the fuck off this ridge then.”
“Yes, let’s go. Quickly.”

So we put our heads down and [...]

In The Cradle of God (7 of 8)

Bizarrely, I removed my camera from under my shirt and took a photo of the track in front me. The track ahead opened out into a highly exposed plateau known as Cradle Cirque before branching left and down towards Waterfall Hut or right and up onto Barn Bluff. Barn Bluff is a [...]