Victoria specific bushwalking discussion.
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Mon 12 Nov, 2012 6:51 pm
andrewbish wrote:Location is one factor of remoteness, but I would also add track condition and visibility.
When the terrain is rough, the trail is non-existent and there are no signs of human activity, it can feel very remote indeed.
It's all in the feeling. Spent a night on Speculation two or three weekends back, and I felt like I was the last person alive in the world. Glorious. Yet Saturday night on the Viking and, good as it was, it was just another bush camp. Maybe because I'd seen people that day but there was no-one around anywhere the previous trip.
Mon 12 Nov, 2012 7:37 pm
Probably not the most remote place in the world, but definitely the biggest "how the hell are we going to get out of here" moment in my life of Bushwalking would had to have been the time that, as a kid, we were guided down the northern side of Helicopter Spur in a navigation mishap, and had to follow Barkley Creek all the way to the start of the track. I'd never been so happy to see a 4WD track in all my life!
Was the most diabolical scrub that I have encountered in my life, and an experience I'd rather not go through again, but definitely had us worried for a while about how we were going to get out of there.
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