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Recent Expedition : Wild Mountains of Tasmania Expedition
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This expedition has posted 1 updates, the most recent being 1114 days ago Update #1 (22 Aug 2007) Wild Mountains of Tasmania - Brief REPORT - Path + comments REM: the details, full food list, full equi... |
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Expedition Objective(s): Hike accross the entire Wilderness World Heritage area of Tasmania. Starting North from Cradle Valley and arriving at Cockle Creek on the South coast. Underway climb a list of 15 MUST climb mountains and if possible as much of the 30+ other mountains in the same area. The adventure is solo and unsu...View Details Interesting Aspects: the "shortest" way with a trade off between time and distance is the chosen path. It links official tracks with offtrack bushbashing in the dense vegetation to reach the mountain. The most known mountains climbed are: Cradle, Ossa and Federation peak. Several river crossing to be done, wading or s...View Details Equipment List: MSR Zoid 1 tent, Mountain equipment dreamcatcher 300 sleeping bag, thermarest 3R, Kovea titanuim gasstove, 2*490 gram gas canisters, 55 liter backpack+59 liter drybag. GPS Silva, FUJI 9500 camera, drybags....View Details See Also: http://www.louis-philippe-loncke.com My personal website. http://louphi.blogspot.com Blog with fresh news. |
| Concluding Report: On the 21-01-2007, I woke up with a swollen calf (leg) the weather was bad with thick clouds and rain, I was very close to Federation peak. I stayed in my tent the entire day. The next day I saw some sun through and climbed the peak. I only had 1 MUST climb mountain, Mt La Perouse. To reach it, the idea was to go down the Eastern Arthurs range, find the Lake Sydney track to Mt BOBs. I entered the last off-track part. The calf remained swollen during the 3 last weeks of the trip. Slowed me down and I decided not to go to Mt La Perouse but to escape and save my life asap (lack of food) by following the Salisbury river, the New lagoon river to the south coast. Then I joined the south coast track I had previously walked and finished at Cockle creek after 49 days. 36 hours later I flew from Hobart to Sydney and 3 days later I was back in Belgium. |
Advice:
I started with 49 kg on my back (food, equipment) and possibly did the longest unsupported walk in Tasmania.
But my injury (swollen calf) was bad, it's called "Trench Foot". In Tasmania you cannot beat the wet, the mud off-track. My advice is to have the courage to decide to finish your adventure when your life is at stake. While saving my life, my GPS broke. If I was not following the river, I would have been lost and probably dead. I did not climbed La Perouse, my 15th MUST climb summit but I'm happy to eat heaps of pills now to cure my leg. |
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