Bushwalk Australia

As per the previous and obviously just for fun

Tough one MD desert summer......winter above the snow line???????????

Yeah, tough one.
Currently working on west coast Tassie (mucky, rainy, gorgeous scenery). Lived in Alice for five years (stinking hot, always front of mind the vastness, gorgeous scenery)

Make a new category - ' Just love it all'.

If not - I'll take the cold and wet. (at a pinch).

Oops- Winter West coast is my vote for harder, and strangely, what I hanker for when I get solo time.

Winter FNQ is actually pretty good. Summer FNQ can be atrocious.

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geoskid wrote:

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I think the "?" is because a post wasn't totally relevant to the initial question.

Actually, I couldn't understand that 'as per the previous' bit in the first post. What previous? Cryptic!

Can't do two polls in the one post for some reason
2 posts
First Which is Harder?
Second Which is Best?
First post ( Previous) was which is Best

A link might be needed to join the two threads. Also, not seeing any polls on Tapatalk. Might be a limitation of the app though.

My point was merely that in a poll on "hardest conditions/locations" winter fnq seemed a little out of place. Winter is as good as it gets for walking in fnq.

Harder how ? Physically ? Mentally ? In what conditions ? Depends on the snow and the gear available too. Soft snow, strong gradient and freezing temperatures are pretty much the hardest thing you can encounter. Add the strong winds you usually find on top of hills and you're done. We could say Northern Australia in the wet season (heat, humidity, mud), but almost no one bushwalks in that period. And summer in the desert ? Well I tried it, and actually it's more the flies that are annoying than the heat : if you got enough water it's fine. If we assume it's a sunny day, well in summer people bushwalk early in the morning or late in the afternoon anyway. Just like (sane) people wouldn't bushwalk when the avalanche risk is at its max. In that sense, putting everything in perspective, I'd say snow beats it. You gotta learn how to ski or snowshoe, you need cold weather gear, it's exhausting with all that gear, it's cold, and progress is slow. Runner up to me would be mudfields in Tassie, but it's not in the poll. Beach walking is pretty exhausting too, and destroys you mentally coz you feel like you'll never see the end.

I reckon walking through a dessert in any season would be challenging but at least you wouldn't have to carry food. The question is, the centre of which dessert are we talking … i don't think I could survive a bombe Alaska (too hot), or a chocolate mousse (death by quick-goo).

Pavlova would be dicey, too. I've walked on bogs like: semi frozen, the top appears solid but you never know when they're going to crack and drop you in the mush.

Too late to go back and correct the spelling now
Dessert walking is my favourite kind Death by Chokolatte