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Federation Peak – South West Tasmania 1968

April 11, 2019by digbygotts Leave a comment

Here is my story about my first bushwalk in Tassie’s South West, feeling a little intimidated by the isolation and recognising a lack of experience in taking on the walk […]

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Tasmania

Roaring Meg Falls and Pieter Botte

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Bloomfield to Cape Tribulation via Roaring Meg Falls and Pieter Botte I recently realised that this 3-4 day walk is one which deserves to be recorded although it is definitely […]

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Australia, Far North Queensland

Pennine Way September 2017

October 10, 2017by digbygotts Leave a comment

The Pennine Way is a 407 km trail in the UK running from Edale, just outside Manchester, to Kirk Yetholm just across the Scottish border. It was established as an […]

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United Kingdom

River Rafting in Nepal – an alternative viewpoint

July 29, 2017by digbygotts Leave a comment

Adventure and thrills in white water, but is that why we’re here? First Published by Earth Garden in about 1990. Alison Gotts, Cape Tribulation, Queensland Walking the Durba Marg, the main […]

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Nepal

Nepal 1997. The Annapurna Circuit and Sanctuary.

July 21, 2017by digbygotts Leave a comment

A 22 day circuit of the horse shoe shaped Annapurna Range, going over Thorong La at 5280m before descending and entering the Sanctuary for the climb to Annapurna Base Camp […]

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Nepal

Climbing Mt Kenya 2004

July 3, 2017by digbygotts Leave a comment

Mt Kenya loses in the altitude stakes to big cousin Mt Kilimanjaro, but we found it to be far more interesting as a walk, not just for the scenery but […]

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Africa

Mt Kilimanjaro 2004

June 30, 2017by digbygotts Leave a comment

We climbed Mt Kilimanjaro with a commercial tour operator “Into Africa”, who had the reputation for looking after porters and not going too quickly, allowing participants to acclimatize to the […]

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Africa

Central Australian Road Trip 2017

June 9, 2017by digbygotts Leave a comment

The first trip of our grey nomad life covering about 7500 km over 3 weeks on mostly unsealed roads to Alice Springs and beyond with the highlight being the crossing […]

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Australia

The Great Ocean Walk 2017

March 19, 2017by digbygotts Leave a comment

We chose to walk this path independently for the full 8 days that is recommended by Parks Victoria, carrying camping gear and food for the whole time. It is also  possible […]

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Australia, Victoria

Tales From the Trail

February 23, 2017by digbygotts Leave a comment

Tales from the Appalachian Trail I’m hobbling on painful knees and ankles as I stagger on up the hill, exhausted under my 25 kg pack, and we’re only on day […]

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