Orchids – Hidden Gems of the Trail
James Wenzel advises us to slow down on the trail and add orchid-spotting to the pleasures of bushwalking.
Article Topics: Walking the Heysen Trail
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Hiking with children
Amelia Veale writes of her family’s tradition of walking the Heysen Trail as a child and now as a parent with her children.
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End-to-End Minus 1
To start our final year on the trail we had an easy one-day walk – a catch-up for the postponed last walk in 2014. Our numbers had reduced due to a couple of our walkers suffering injuries in the ‘off’ season. So it was down to The Woods of Mount Crawford with a random assortment of teddy bears and a screaming baboon called Super Morris Major!!!
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Maintenance on the Trail
… and on that understanding I became part of a 4-man crew that met at Cobblers Creek at 8:30am on…
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The First End-to-End walk of the Heysen Trail
Ten walking companions walk the Heysen Trail in 1986 as a South Australian Jubilee 150 project, prior to the trail even being finished.
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Slowest ever completion of the Heysen Trail?
Could it be that in the same year Richard Bowles recorded the fastest-ever completion of the Heysen Trail in 14 days, 8 hours & 32 minutes, the slowest-ever completion of the trail also occurred?
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She’s Missing! A Story of Survival
At the beginning of 1996, I decided to take time off from work as a senior manager in the Netherlands’ health system; a sort of sabbatical to reflect on my job and private life. I wanted to recover physically and emotionally from some stressful years that lay behind me.
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Walking in the Flinders: End-to-End 2
The catch-up chatting began in the bus, which picked up many walkers from outside the Heysen office, in Pitt Street, on the way to the first stop in Port Augusta. Walking gear and food filled the storage area under the bus but left just enough space for a large addition, no names mentioned, in Snowtown.
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Feeling Great – the Story of End-to-End 2
The ‘Heysen Trail’ has become our obsession and biggest personal challenge to complete in August 2008. When we first started walking on some End-to-End 1 days and catch ups we thought, okay just for the fun of it, we will do the odd day. We were told that we should just do the easy bits but this made us determined to tackle the whole 1200km!
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Diamonds of the Heysen Trail
My friend, Sallie and I, regular long distance trail walkers, set out at the beginning of July to make an assault on the first 250 km of the Heysen Trail. The intent was to do the first 5 days and the last day on full packs with the rest done on day packs staying at local facilities and having our big packs moved in between.
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An Obsession and Never Ending Story
I joined the Friends of the Heysen 20 years ago, and from the start was interested in trail maintenance. I could not at that time take on a maintenance section due to business commitments, so volunteered to work on an ad hoc basis, notably when there was a full time FoHT Manager, who would telephone for volunteers.
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A Heysen Highlight – Eyre Memorial, Crystal Brook
Crystal Brook is a beautiful town in the mid-north, and holds special significance to the Heysen walker.