Month: March 2019

Day 9: 11 March 2019

My sister, Barbie had long been keen to be part of our support team and today was the perfect day. She drove us to the start of the walk then did some photography around Borradaile plains while we walked about 7 kilometres down tracks and cross country to meet her at the old cattleman’s hut. When we arrived she pulled out a fantastic picnic lunch complete with Lamb and Feta spicy meatballs cooked on a portable stove. We then walked another 3 kilometres to finish the day and connect with our previous stage.

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Day 8: 3 March 2019

For a while we have wondered how we would go climbing the 640m elevation ascent from Lemonthyme to Borradaile plains. We looked at a range of possibilites on several old maps. The planning was made more challenging for two reasons. First, the whole area was burnt out in 2016 which meant no clear indication of any cross country tracks through the bush. Secondly, the existing forestry roads had been closed by bulldozing the accesses many years ago and they were consequently well grown over and washed out in places. We knew both these facts and were prepared to navigate as close to the old maps as we could. What we didn’t know was that whoever had drawn the connecting tracks on the old maps had clearly never been there and had just sketched them in where someone had suggested there was a connecting track.