Untrue. They’re about.
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Looks like the 2 ladies that perished in the Alpine area weren’t that far away from Cleve Cole hut.
Guess we’ll find out in due time as to how prepared they were & whether they had previously reached it or just missed out.
Two women found dead at Nelse, near Falls Creek in Victorian alpine region - ABC News
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Went on a bit of a mish from where I was camping to Tathra this morning (and back this arvo).
Only one danger noodle but plenty of whales!
My trip covered about half of the Wharf to Wharf trail from Merimbula to Tathra.
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First time taking my kayak into open water (albeit from the river mouth at Pambula).
Definitely a different kettle of fish to rivers/lakes and needed to self-rescue once after getting capsized coming in.
First photo is plowing through a wave heading out.
Second photo I was heading 90 degrees to the left but the wave overran me and I ended up capsizing (in hindsight if I had braced to me left instead of right I might have been ok!).
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I did a couple of days hiking along the Great South West Walk.
60km in 3 days. From Bridge Water Blow holes, across to Portland.
The GSWW is really well maintained, and ran into volunteers a couple of times who were working on the track.
The plovers were out in force. So I wasn’t able to sit on the sand and enjoy a snack, because they’d be f*cking swooping me as soon as I got comfortable.
Beautiful weather, abit of wind, and come across a few snakes sun baking.
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At least you have Cleve Cole Hut to shelter in if you need to, which wasn’t available to Cleve.
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Mt Feathertop Summit ATM.
Quite a chilly morning.
Not much of a view, unfortunately.
Nice walk though.
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We’ve all got a long way to go to catch this guy
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There’s browns everywhere where I live on the MP
Rob below typically posts about Tasmanian hikes on his YouTube channel and has taken an interest in the tourist who has been missing for over 2 years just on a simple walk to Philosopher falls.
He mentions in the video from 2 weeks ago that he was going to be part of a volunteer search party that would search the area in December.
So it looks like it was this weekend as they have amazingly found her phone.
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Human remains have been found about 2 hours from where her phone was found.
Not yet confirmed.
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A tip for people who do multi day hiking.
Jar cooking is what I’ve been doing for years now, and havent looked back. It saves so much time and energy. All you need to do is boil water.
There’s no cooking. No dishes. No carrying pots and pans.
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Interesting. You still need a pot to boil the water, so carrying a thermos on top of your normal load.
I usually add my dehydrated food to the pot and fill with cold water to soak and then heat it when I’m ready to eat. Most camps you have plenty of time to kill so you don’t need time saving hacks.
One other good tip for rice eaters is to cook your rice at home and then dehydrate it. It is the same weight but the cooking time is drastically reduced.
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Sounds like she followed the creek downstream, which is what you’d do in Europe or North America because that inevitably gets you to civilization.
But here it just took her into more and more trouble.
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@MaxPower I don’t go as far as @jonovdp by jar cooking everything, but my goto breakfast is soaked oats and coconut milk powder for coconut milk porridge (served with a spoon of brown sugar). I use an uninsulated plastic container (with a well fitting and sealing lid) and boil water at about supper time the night before and start the soaking process (milk powder miked in). I use the container as a mini hot water bottle overnight (so it needs to be a really well fitting lid) and then reheat in the morning by standing in the hot water I make for by morning coffee.
Super easy to not have to prep to much in a morning, and the lightweight plastic container doesn’t add much weight. The lightest option is an empty Bega peanut butter jar, but you need to be careful adding in boiling water, those jars have a tendency to mel with the heat.
Looking at google maps looks like she may have come across Magnet Rd crossing the rive in a few more kms, if she had been able to keep going.
Looks like a dirt road that leads out to the main road in either direction, probably taking half a day.
I read somewhere where she may have been trying to walk to Magnet Dam, assuming the track would be the same, which is why she went past the falls.
But as all the videos show, its so easy to get lost in that scrub.
At least theres warning signs there now.
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Yeah I do that with Rice and pasta.
The reason I like the thermos for winter camping. It’s dark by 5:30. So I don’t need to cook in the dark & cold. And do dishes in the dark and cold.
I have sandwich bags of plain dehydrated rice and pasta.
And then I have some sandwich bags with stuff like stew, bolog, curry. So you can just add a hand full.
I also get pretty tired of wraps with salami for lunch…. So I have hot lunch aswell. I throw rice, stew & hot water into a thermos during breakfast…. Then I have a nice hot lunch.
Perfect in the winter.
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23kms In Plenty Gorge today, great spot!
No snakes spotted, couple of Frogmouths and heaps of Kangas.
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