Today I took a hike on my own in the bush, through the hills of Perth if you will. I've always gone walking with someone else but today I truly got to experience hiking with my own thoughts and getting lost in the atmosphere of it all. Lesmurdie Falls is a part of the Darling Range escarpment located approximately 30 kilometres east of Perth, and when I first got there in the morning I thought to myself...eh, just three kilometres all the way around, that's nothing! Lake Monger is more than … [Read more...]
Sep 25, 2011
The beginnings of a hiker
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Three weeks at the gym jogging on the treadmill, hitting the rower, strengthening my upper body, cycling long distance - I needed a little something different. This weekend, we hit out at the Bibbulman Track, 30kms east of Perth. Not all of it, mind you...just a complete fraction of it's entire 1000kms stretch of distance, going from Kalamunda all the down to Albany. We aimed to achieve two kilometres and we got off to a pretty poor start. Parking the car at a shopping centre after we spotted … [Read more...]
