Backpacking

Myrtle Forest Tasmania

Backpacking into wilderness areas is certainly one of the great joys in life. Quite a different form of camping altogether when you carry everything on your back! Carrying your own equipment you seek to minimize the weight and bulk of any gear carried. A lighter pack causes less fatigue, injury and soreness, and allows you to travel longer distances. Every piece of equipment is evaluated for a balance of utility versus weight. Significant reductions in weight can usually be achieved with little sacrifice in equipment utility, though very lightweight equipment is often more costly.

Steve Ewings and Bob Parsons

My introduction into bushwalking came after moving to Tasmania, with a desire to explore the National Parks and mountains of Tasmania. Over a decade most of the National Parks were explored, and I undertook Bushwalking Leadership Training, and spent a number of months each year in the mountains.

Over time I began a guiding company with a close friend, Bob Parsons, and even worked on a feature film as the Wilderness Advisor and as a track-cutter in the South West of Tasmania. Thus began a long love affair with the mountains, particularly enjoying winter walking and camping on the Central Plateau, Walls of Jerusalem, and Cradle Mountain National Parks.

I am providing some general information here gleaned from many years of walking, but if you have done little in the way of shouldering a pack, hiking, or bushwalking don’t do it alone. If you are the social type, you may wish to join a walking club where you benefit from the more experienced members. Ensure you have others walking with you for safety reasons, especially if you are intending to undertake extended trips.

Tips on packing backpacks

Clothing for Hot and Cold conditions

Walking Boots

Food and Cooking

Tips on Tents

Snow Camping

Erik Falk is very experienced and offers some additional tips and advice on wilderness treks. If you are looking for great places to walk in this big country, visit Australia-hiking for all the best information.

Maintain your fitness for those walking trips. Working Without Weights will give you fitness improvements you can use and physical changes you can SEE in the SHORTEST time possible...Without costly equipment or expensive gym memberships!

Improved physique to finally look the way you deserve... strong, hard muscles and the cardiorespiratory system to back them up - without the layer of unwanted fat!

If you have an functioning body and 20-30 minutes, 3 times a week to work on fitness, physique and fat loss... you have everything you need to exceed your expectations!

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