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Day 4 – Wilpena Pound Resort to Red Range Campsite
5 years ago

Day 4 – Wilpena Pound Resort to Red Range Campsite

By  •  Heysen Trail

It’s incredible how quickly your mood can improve with the right stimuli. Following several meaningful revelations and one of the most phenomenal landscapes I’d ever witnessed, my body and mind …
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Day 5 – Red Range Campsite to Mayo Hut
5 years ago

Day 5 – Red Range Campsite to Mayo Hut

By  •  Heysen Trail

Compared to an unrelentingly undulating Day 4, the relatively even 17-kilometre stretch on Day 5 was just the ‘rest’ my exhausted legs had screamed for. I spent the day zipping between dry creek …
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Day 6 – Mayo Hut to Hawker
5 years ago

Day 6 – Mayo Hut to Hawker

By  •  Heysen Trail

There are few things a hiker looks forward to more than a shower, a schnitzel and to slip between the sheets of a toasty bed. Hawker, a quiet township billed …
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Day 7 – Hawker to Mt Elm School Campsite
5 years ago

Day 7 – Hawker to Mt Elm School Campsite

By  •  Heysen Trail

While I’d briefly misplaced the trail several times by the end of Week 1, the overgrown Yourambulla Range left me completely befuddled. The view from on top of Jervis Hill was …
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Day 8 – Mt Elm School Shelter to Buckaringa North Campsite
5 years ago

Day 8 – Mt Elm School Shelter to Buckaringa North Campsite

By  •  Heysen Trail

It doesn’t matter how far you trek or how many litres of sweat you lose, the sunsets in the Flinders Ranges make every ache sting that little bit less. The …
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Day 9 – Buckaringa North Campsite to Mt Arden South Campsite
5 years ago

Day 9 – Buckaringa North Campsite to Mt Arden South Campsite

By  •  Heysen Trail

By now it shouldn’t have surprised me, but the quick-fire changes in scenery kept on coming. In fact, the dynamic stretch on Day 9 was the poster boy of diversity. Stony tracks, …
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Day 10 – Mt Arden South Campsite to Eyre Depot
5 years ago

Day 10 – Mt Arden South Campsite to Eyre Depot

By  •  Heysen Trail

There aren’t many reasons to backtrack along an already conquered section of trail at an ungodly hour of the morning—Mt Arden’s sweeping dawn view is one of them. Despite a tortuously early …
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Day 11 – Eyre Depot to Quorn
5 years ago

Day 11 – Eyre Depot to Quorn

By  •  Heysen Trail

It’s astounding how quickly your mood can change when you’re pushed to your limits. The first week and a half on the trail was packed with challenging, yet rewarding, ups and …
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Day 12 – Quorn to Pichi Richi Park
5 years ago

Day 12 – Quorn to Pichi Richi Park

By  •  Heysen Trail

After almost two weeks of riding adrenaline-packed highs transversing majestic, yet exhausting, terrain, my enthusiasm had finally slumped. It was the inevitable lull that had to come. Fortunately, following a …
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Day 13 – Pichi Richi Park to Catninga Shed
5 years ago

Day 13 – Pichi Richi Park to Catninga Shed

By  •  Heysen Trail

My physical appearance had undergone noticeable transformations by the time I reached Day 13. However, it took me until the night of Day 12 to realise my body had also …
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