Prohike Australia Trackmate
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TIP: The online Bushwalk Inventory System can help bushwalkers with a variety of bushwalk planning tasks, including: Manage which items they take bushwalking so that they do not forget anything they might need, plan meals for their walks, and automatically compile food/fuel shopping lists (lists of consumables) required to make and cook the meals for each walk. It is particularly useful for planning for groups who share food or other items, but is also useful for individual walkers.
TIP: The online Bushwalk Inventory System can help bushwalkers with a variety of bushwalk planning tasks, including: Manage which items they take bushwalking so that they do not forget anything they might need, plan meals for their walks, and automatically compile food/fuel shopping lists (lists of consumables) required to make and cook the meals for each walk. It is particularly useful for planning for groups who share food or other items, but is also useful for individual walkers.
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Prohike Australia Trackmate
by Drifting » Sat 25 Jun, 2016 1:29 pm
Does anyone have experience with the Prohike Australia Trackmate? It's sort of a travois-based pack carrier. I was wondering how it would go on the Overland Track during summer, and in muddy conditions.
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Re: Prohike Australia Trackmate
by Moondog55 » Sat 25 Jun, 2016 5:11 pm
http://www.prohikeaustralia.com.au/
>>??
Looks like a solution searching for a problem
First glance and I'm thinking the wheel is too skinny and too small
I'm wondering tho if there is a ski foot attachment for the wheel
>>??
Looks like a solution searching for a problem
First glance and I'm thinking the wheel is too skinny and too small
I'm wondering tho if there is a ski foot attachment for the wheel
Ve are too soon old und too late schmart
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Re: Prohike Australia Trackmate
by Tyreless » Sat 25 Jun, 2016 6:56 pm
It's not a new idea. See the article on page 15 of the SBW magazine from June 1952 titled "Trundling down the Cox".
http://sbw.ozultimate.com/1952/195206.pdf
http://sbw.ozultimate.com/1952/195206.pdf
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Re: Prohike Australia Trackmate
by CasualNerd » Sat 25 Jun, 2016 9:24 pm
Last December we actually met a family with two young girls who took a homemade one wheeled contraption all the way into Lake Tahune hut. It was kind of a wheelbarrow / pram / luggage rack based around a 30" unicycle wheel. Impressive project, and I guess it allowed him to take the family camping !
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Re: Prohike Australia Trackmate
by Strider » Sat 25 Jun, 2016 9:27 pm
CasualNerd wrote:Last December we actually met a family with two young girls who took a homemade one wheeled contraption all the way into Lake Tahune hut. It was kind of a wheelbarrow / pram / luggage rack based around a 30" unicycle wheel. Impressive project, and I guess it allowed him to take the family camping !
Would have been quite a job getting it up that ladder!
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Re: Prohike Australia Trackmate
by CasualNerd » Sat 25 Jun, 2016 9:42 pm
Strider wrote:CasualNerd wrote:Last December we actually met a family with two young girls who took a homemade one wheeled contraption all the way into Lake Tahune hut. It was kind of a wheelbarrow / pram / luggage rack based around a 30" unicycle wheel. Impressive project, and I guess it allowed him to take the family camping !
Would have been quite a job getting it up that ladder!
He admitted he'd forgotten about the last section of the track
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Re: Prohike Australia Trackmate
by Mark F » Sat 25 Jun, 2016 11:46 pm
Has its place but every fallen tree across the track would be pure pain.
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Re: Prohike Australia Trackmate
by DaveNoble » Sun 26 Jun, 2016 9:54 am
You may need to check with the managers if such a carriage is permissible on the Overland Track. Also - I think you would have trouble on the sections of longitudinal duckboard - the wheel may slip into the gap between the two planks. Also - some section are littered with rocks and others have lots of tree roots.
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