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Find out about the United State’s National Scenic Trail System and the challenges of managing these trails for tourists while providing opportunities for locals. Taylor will talk specifically about the Florida National Scenic Trail, which is a similar concept to our Heyson Trail. The talk will focus on market segmentation – who’s hiking and what they want.
The full series of Heysen Trail map sheets have been released and are available for purchase. Buy now via our online store, for $15 with postage from $2.15.
Come hike Kangaroo Island with a fun-filled bus of hikers, over the October long weekend. Three walks in different areas of the island show off the varied scenery, flora and fauna of this special island.
The Heysen Trail has been restored and re-marked to the original route through Wirrabara Forest. This removes the 44km temporary re-route, however there are two small re-routes. Down south, the Heysen Trail has been re-marked through the Sampson Flat fireground, with a temporary re-route in place from Chain of Ponds to Kersbook.
5 Ordinary People finish of their extraordinary 1,200km through hike of The Heysen Trail at Cape Jervis this at 2pm Saturday 20th June 2015.
We've welcomed our 1,000th member. The End-to-End 5 group caught up with the member, Rachel Faulkner, in Port Augusta earlier this month.
Terry Kreig, author of Walking With Warren, will give a lecture at the Royal Geographical Society on Thursday 18th June, 5:30pm.
The Australian Wildlife Conservancy will be undertaking feral animal control in Buckaringa Sanctuary during coming months, affecting map 4.6 of the Northern Guidebook. The next planned closure is evening of 19th June through to the morning of 22nd June 2015.
UPDATE: 3pm Thursday 4th June: There have been significant issues with our online payment system during May, until 2pm Thursday 4th June. Whilst we think these issues have now been resolved, we are monitoring the situation. Payment processing affecting walk registrations involving payments, and online store payments. Our e-commerce provider NAB has been experiencing ongoing issues. This has meant that customers have been experiencing difficulties submitting payments online. NAB recognises the impact this is having on customers and apologies for the inconvenience. NAB is working to resolve these ongoing issues as soon as possible.
Heavy rains on Friday 17th April 2015 in the Flinders will be welcomed by hikers on the Heysen Trail. We were aware that some tanks were low. Ensure that upon entering a campsite you still have sufficient water to make it to a known water supply, should the water tank be found to be unexpectedly too low.
The State Government is still in negotiation to secure a re-route of the Heysen Trail across the spectacular headland at…
Warren Bonython has been recognised with a new Walking Trail named after him. Robert Alcock and Andrew Robertson represented the Friends of the Heysen Trail at the opening ceremonies last Thursday and Friday at Hiltaba Nature Reserve, Gawler Ranges, 650km from Adelaide.
