Bushwalking has recently taken a back seat for me as I’m training again for a return to track ultra walks. My ‘comeback’ event is a 12 hour race at Coburg, Victoria on 9 April, 2022. I entered the race as a way to motivate myself to train again and get back to walking further and […]
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Bushwalk – circuit of the Jamison Valley, December 2021. It is the valley you see from the lookouts at Katoomba and Leura in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. Day 1. “In the whole spectacle there was a persistent, pervasive hint of stupendous secrecy and potential revelation; as if these stark, nightmare spires marked the
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Woko National Park bushwalking. 18km, 12 hours. October, 2020 This was an exploratory (for me) walk, about half off-track, in which I made a mistake that could have been a bad one. Woko National Park is about 30km drive from Gloucester in mid-northern NSW, close to Barrington Tops. I’ve often gazed at the row of
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Been a long, long time since I updated this blog, raising the valid question am I still walking? Yes. Yes, I am. Here are my excuses. Finishing my PhD [Teaching Jazz: a study of beliefs and pedagogy using Legitimation Code Theory (Richardson, 2019), a compelling read, do check it out] took a LOT of time
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I plan to walk, in stages, the whole of the New South Wales coast. I’ll try to document each stage of my NSW Coast Walk here as best I can starting with photos and basic reports on sections completed so far. UPDATE: I’ve now added Taree to Newcastle in the north & Bomaderry to Milton
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Bushwalk from Lindfield to Manly beach via Little digger track – two creeks track – flat rock beach track – Magazine track – Natural arch – bluff track – engravings track – Manly dam circuit track – Manly beach. 30km. December 2016. Until I have time for a better solution, photos are on Facebook.
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A walk over three days along the Thames Path walk, a long-distance track from London to Oxford. Overnight in hotels/B&Bs. I dropped my suitcase at a B&B in Oxford and had a day of sightseeing there before returning to London for an early start the next day. An easy and picturesque walk with some long
Katoomba to Bowral walk. April 11-17, 2017. 218km (6524m ascent; 6889m descent). Katoomba – Black Range – Whalania Heights – Uni Rover trail – Batsh Camp – Millnigang Ridge – Colong Stock route – Wollondilly – Wanganderry Pass – Bowral I had a few days free thanks to school holidays. My work is in an
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Finally, I have completed the Great North Walk ‘through hike’ that gives this website its name, the GNW250! GNW250 “through hike” September 2015 The Great North Walk is a bush track between Sydney and Newcastle. Officially it is 250km, but in reality is more like 275km or 260km, depending on which route you take over
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October 2 – 5, 2013. Distance: Approx 75km Party: Saul Richardson. Summary: A long report, so the short version is that I walked from Blackheath station to Richmond station via the Grose River. It took 3 ½ days and was a tough but rewarding walk. The landscape was varied and beautiful, the sense of solitude
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