Scinap wrote:Download Google Earth, and get the file from walkgps, it has some photos. I don't have any from my trip, I still need to get them off our photographer.
http://www.walkgps.com/useful_links_and ... ling_Range
mikethepike wrote:I was in the Stirling Range about ten years ago and after climbing two of its tracked peaks and looking along the spine of peaks, I just have to say that it gets my vote as Australia's most unique range and perhaps also its most spectacular. Unique because its peaks are so surprisingly odd looking (with some a bit other worldly) and also because of the sheer variety of its spectacular vegetation which includes many endemic species. And the way it just stands out above the vast surrounding plains. I thought then that a traverse of the range would be incredible to do. I'm off this week to walk Dwellingup to Pemberton on the Bib track so maybe when I go back one day to finish the walk to Albany, I'll also do the traverse.
I am disgusted really to think that people are leaving food packaging scattered along the range (what other inorganic waste is there carried by walkers?) as you'd think that they would be fairly experienced walkers doing this walk but a bigger concern is the possible spread of Phytophera, having seen the devastation it is causing to the Porongorups. Is it a problem in the Stirling Range and are walkers taking any precautions to minimize the chance that they aren't spreading it? I think I would take some meths with me and disinfect my boots say twice each day of the walk. Any thoughts on this? I highly commend those walkers who do a bit of cleanup of rubbish on the range and hope that when the time comes, I will be one of them.
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