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Number of Walks Ticked
159.6km
Total Distance Ticked
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Mount Bartle Frere - Eastern Approach (Wooroonooran National Park) |
19 Aug, 2021 |
Very Hard |
15km return 12 hrs |
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| 0600 flight to Cairns from Brisbane. Started this "walk" solo at 1230 and reached the helipad and evac shelter at around 1830. Stopped to collect and purify water at the 3km mark. There's room to set up camp there but nowhere else until 7km. I set up camp roughly 30m past the helipad at 7km. Cooked dinner in the emergency shelter to make life easier. It started raining at 1am (not quite sideways.. more like slightly uphill.. no leaks thankfully). I ate breakfast at 0800, packed up my gear inside the tent and put on my wet weather gear, boots and a fresh pair of socks. I stored my pack in the evacuation shelter while I packed up my tent, then stored the tent there aswell. Hiked to the summit with no gear except a PLB, protein bar and my phone for a photo of the summit. Fairly decent false summit above the boulder field with ample room to set up camp if there's no room at the helipad area. I'd convinced myself I went to far in the fog and rain but sure enough there's some more root climbing to do and a very obvious park sign in the trees that marks the highest peak in QLD. The hike down took about 4.5 hours and was pretty brutal on the legs with a pack. There were roughly a billion tiny leeches from top to bottom because of the rain, but I applied liberal amounts of 80% deet to my hips, wrists, neck, ankle area (socks and skin) and even outside my pants around my knees to stop them climbing up. Not a single one latched on until I sat in my car in a pair of thongs. Roughly 15kg pack most of the way up. Probably 12-13kgs on the way down List of items: 55L Denali Meridian pack. (I wouldn't recommend this pack I've had to pop rivet some stainless steel to the aluminum frame to stop it from deforming and jamming into my spine) 3 dry sacks Tent (Zephyr II) Ultra light inflatable mattress Down sleeping bag (rated 4°c) Sleeping bag liner (silk cotton) Inflatable pillow Jet boil 0.8L personal cooker Ultra light titanium cutlery set LED LENSER headlamp Rain coat Rain pants Spare change of clothes and socks 6L MSR dromedary (2L from car to creek at 3km mark, 5L taken from the creek at 3km mark to evac shelter and then back) Water purification tablets 3 protein bars 2 gel sachets Freeze dried meals: (back country meals regular size for dinner and small for breakfast) I should have stopped on the way down to eat another meal I had but was rushing. First aid kit: (emergency blanket, ibuprofen, panadol, antihistamines, snake bite kit (3 bandages), 2 non adhesive dressings, 1 haemostatic tampon, 12cm strip of adhesive fabric dressing with pad, 12cm length medical tape). Personal Locator Beacon (PLB) Lightweight Trowel (for digging #2 hole) Biodegradable wet wipes Dry sack for garbage Oil of Clove essential oil to deter rats at camp. Scarpa, leather, full shank mountaineering boots. Battery bank for phone and headlamp All gear except my boots were packed into 1 large compression dry sack and another 13l dry sack with a spare for garbage. I used ziplock bags for my first aid kit and personal items (wallet). |
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Mt Ngungun (Glass House Mountains National Park) |
9 Aug, 2021 |
Medium |
2.8km return 90 mins |
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Mt Ngungun (Glass House Mountains National Park) |
Aug, 2021 |
Medium |
2.8km return 90 mins |
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Mt Tinbeerwah (Sunshine Coast) |
Jul, 2021 |
Easy |
1km return 45 mins |
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Mount Coolum (Sunshine Coast) |
Jun, 2021 |
Medium |
2.6km return 90 mins |
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Mount Beerburrum (Glass House Mountains National Park) |
Jun, 2021 |
Medium |
3.5km return 90 mins |
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Mount Beerwah (Glass House Mountains National Park) |
Jun, 2021 |
Very Hard |
3.6km return 3 hrs |
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Mt Coochin (East and West Peaks) (Glass House Mountains National Park) |
Jun, 2021 |
Medium |
2.8km return 2 hrs |
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Mount Tibrogargan Summit (Glass House Mountains National Park) |
May, 2021 |
Very Hard |
2.7km return 2 hrs |
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Mt Ngungun (Glass House Mountains National Park) |
Dec, 2020 |
Medium |
2.8km return 90 mins |
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