Orchids – Hidden Gems of the Trail
By James Wenzel
James Wenzel advises us to slow down on the trail and add orchid-spotting to the pleasures of bushwalking.
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Hiking with children
By Amelia Veale
Amelia Veale writes of her family’s tradition of walking the Heysen Trail as a child and now as a parent with her children.
End-to-End Minus 1
The Meritorious, Notorious and Hilarious Adventures of Morris Minus (Part 5) – Morris Learns About Catch-ups, Casualties and Companions
By Morris Minus
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!!!
Maintenance on the Trail
Hut Trip Report, February 2015
By Peter Wynen
… and on that understanding I became part of a 4-man crew that met at Cobblers Creek at 8:30am on […]
The First End-to-End walk of the Heysen Trail
1986: a South Australian Jubilee 150 project
By Andrew Eastick
Ten walking companions walk the Heysen Trail in 1986 as a South Australian Jubilee 150 project, prior to the trail even being finished.
Slowest ever completion of the Heysen Trail?
By John Pratt
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?
She’s Missing! A Story of Survival
Lost on St Mary Peak, Flinders Ranges
By Stella van der Krogt
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.
Walking in the Flinders: End-to-End 2
The First Week Away - June 8 to 14, 2008
By Elizabeth Alvey
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.
Feeling Great – the Story of End-to-End 2
By Bev McLeod, Ralene Shaw, Rhonda Dempster and Helen Cradock
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!
Diamonds of the Heysen Trail
By Lari Mcdonald, from Western Australia
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.