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Sometimes a trip is a success. Sometimes it can be a failure. Often it is difficult to tell the two apart. Our recent foray deep into Apsle...

"Believe me, my young friend, there is NOTHING - absolutely nothing - half so  much worth doing as simply messing about in boats....

Why walk when you can drive? We could all give a dozen good answers to that question but, in the case of our walk to Kemps Pinnacle, it...

The full moon threw a sheet of silver light along the steep sided valley, illuminating the smooth bark of brush box trees lining the boulde...

An erratic frontal wind hit us hard, stripping loose leaves from the forest canopy and throwing them about like confetti. The weak...

Searching the grooves and hollows of the sculpted rocky river bank, big dumps of flood debris yielded shapely logs tumbled and worn smooth ...

I initially wanted to write this blog like a "track notes" with detailed directions for a day walk around the forest an...