It is a month today that we shoulder our packs, dip our toes in the waves of Bass Strait, and head south along the banks of the Mersey.\u00a0 After some 42-45 days of walking, in two separate blocks, if we emerge from the South-West of Tasmania we will have traversed the Island from North to South.\u00a0 At least that is the plan….\u00a0 and as we all know, anything can happen!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We are using the standard GO PREPARE<\/strong> expedition planning tool for this trip. We will detail this out over the next few weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n G – Overall Goal<\/p>\n\n\n\n O – Other objectives<\/p>\n\n\n\n P – Participants (age, health, needs, experience)<\/p>\n\n\n\n R – Rations (Food, food drops, other soft consumables, cache planning)<\/p>\n\n\n\n E – Equipment List (hard personal and group equipment)<\/p>\n\n\n\n P – Plan (Route, stages, maps, GPS files, cache locations)<\/p>\n\n\n\n A – Access (Permissions, crossing private land etc)<\/p>\n\n\n\n R – Resources, money, people and advice (books, maps, advice, support and transport)<\/p>\n\n\n\n E – Emergency planning (First aid, communications)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It is a month today that we shoulder our packs, dip our toes in the waves of Bass Strait, and head south along the banks of the Mersey.\u00a0 After some 42-45 days of walking, in two separate blocks, if we emerge from the South-West of Tasmania we will have traversed the Island from North to … <\/p>\n