Another milestone today: my 900th post here at the Ultralight Hiker. I am just back from walking the Dusky Track in Fiordland as my recent posts no doubt inform you. It is getting harder and longer as I age, but I am just glad to be able to be there and other wonderful places, and doing it. Plenty of time for the easier walks later on, I hope! See: http://www.theultralighthiker.com/from-dawn-to-dusky/ &ff.
In my Hummingbird Hammock, (http://www.theultralighthiker.com/a-hummingbird-in-the-hand/) Supper Cove, Fiordland New Zealand 21 April 2017.
It’s been a busy 5ive and a half months since my 800th post! What are some of the highlights of the last one hundred posts?
Well…Trekking in Nepal: http://www.theultralighthiker.com/thatendlessskyway/
And a much more modest walk on the Mirboo North Rail Trail: http://www.theultralighthiker.com/a-birthday-treat-mirboo-north-rail-trail/
Some ideas for pack rafting in Gippsland: http://www.theultralighthiker.com/gippsland-pack-rafting-routes/
and canoe hunting: http://www.theultralighthiker.com/you-take-the-high-road-and-ill-take-the-low/
A visit to the ‘lost’ Yarra Falls by ‘a reader’: http://www.theultralighthiker.com/yarra-falls-3/
A week canoeing the Wonnangatta/Mitchell: http://www.theultralighthiker.com/wonnangatta-waterford-to-angusvale-day-one/
A new $10 tent: http://www.theultralighthiker.com/poly-tent-by-the-ultralight-hiker-on-the-cheap/
Some thoughts on hunting: http://www.theultralighthiker.com/the-ethical-hunter/
A trip to Mt Horsefall and the Toorongo Falls: http://www.theultralighthiker.com/escaping-the-heat/
New camper Mods: http://www.theultralighthiker.com/found-space/
A new ground sheet idea: http://www.theultralighthiker.com/inflatable-bathtub-groundsheet/
An excellent ultralight hiking soup: http://www.theultralighthiker.com/steves-nepali-dahl-soup/
At last a map for the Upper Yarra Track: http://www.theultralighthiker.com/upper-yarra-track-map/
A canoe/motorbike trailer insert: http://www.theultralighthiker.com/canoe-motorbike-trailer/
A visit to Blond Bay, Gippsland: http://www.theultralighthiker.com/blond-bay-roseneath-reserve-hollands-landing/
and much more…
What have I planned ahead: well, I aim to complete a last prototype of my Deer Hunter’s Tent http://www.theultralighthiker.com/the-deer-hunters-tent/and make a cuben fibre version with a poncho floor http://www.theultralighthiker.com/hole-less-ponchoshelter/. I will be going into the Victorian High Country with a one-legged friend fishing and hunting for a week at least. I hope to complete the ‘Four Rivers Circuit’ I have mentioned several times before, to canoe the Wonnangatta from Hearnes Spur to Kingwell Bridge, to canoe/clear the Hawthorn Creek section of the Latrobe, walk some of Victoria’s Wilderness Coast, complete a circuit in Wilsons Prom, take a trip to Western Vic and walk some of the hundreds of kilometres of coast walks there, get some more work done on my idea of a Gippsland hiking circuit, make a motorcycle carrier for the Discovery/Defender…I will be busy.
And of course there are jobs around the farm that get in the way of such pleasures too! Today I am working on completing the pump house move so we can finish repairing the lower dam before winter. There is one shed to re-roof, one to demolish and rebuild. Many fences to build and many trees to plant…Life just gets in the way of making plans!
