Members Adventures

  Crossing the ford at the start of the Glow-worm tunnel walk By Jan Herperger A couple of Saturday evenings ago I was invited to go on a spontaneous camping holiday into NSW with my daughters; leaving the next day. Who wouldn’t say yes to an invitation like that! So I packed a bag and the following day jumped in my car and drove to Myrtleford and stayed overnight with daughter number 2. Next morning we packed her station wagon and set off for Bathurst over 6 hours away. The countryside the whole way from Myrtleford was very attractive with rolling hills and farmland and forested lands and the road wound around and up and down (hmmm, a bit like our hikes!). Later that day after we’d arrived and were hurrying to the public toilets (!) we heard a “yoo hoo” and there was daughter number 1 who’d driven up from Sydney. After checking out some op shops and the supermarket we put all of number 1’s camping gear into the now very full station wagon, left her car on a ...

  How do I start? Hiking The Overland track was everything and more than I thought it would be.   My friend Jacqui and I decided to trek with “Intrepid” as we had not done such a long hike before and had heard so many tales about the difficulty of this hike. (Safety in a group)   So, early on Saturday morning, we were picked up from our motel in Launceston by   a small bus and, along with 7 others and 2 guides, spent two and a half hrs traveling to the Cradle Mountain National Park, and the trail head of the hike at Ronny Creek.   They said day one was the hardest, and they were right. Boardwalk for the first couple of Kms, then up & up & up to Marion’s Lookout. Great views of Dove Lake and Cradle Mountain in perfect weather. We stopped at Kitchen Hut for lunch, then grabbed small day packs to scale Cradle Mountain itself. This was one of the best bits in my mind, as the steep track became a rock scramble, then rock climb, then boulder climb, as we scale...