Walks in the Tarkine

[Josef]

Does any one have any suggestions for walks in the Tarkine area (forest or coastal up to 10 days)?

[the_camera_poser]

BUMP- I'd be keen on this too!

[Nuts]

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[tastrekker]

Does any one have any suggestions for walks in the Tarkine area (forest or coastal up to 10 days)?

You say forest or coastal. Would you permit some mountain walking in the mix? A classic walk would be to follow Betts Track from the Arthur dam near Waratah down to the Huon Pine stands at Yellow Creek. From here you could follow ridges up on to Mount Meredith before completing a north-south traverse of the Meredith Range. This would involve some serious off-track walking and by the sound of Bob Brown's notes in his Tarkine Trails book (I've mentioned this in other posts - work that search function!) you could easily spend a week or more on a walk like that.

Something else to note is that the 6-day Tarkine Trails Rainforest Walk does not actually enter the Savage River National Park. At its southern-most extremity, it is just outside the park's northern boundary. Again, some serious extended off-track walking could be undertaken by using the Rainforest Walk to gain access into the park and then walk south or south-west through the heart of this untouched wilderness to come out in the vicinity of Luina, Waratah or Banner Ridge (near the Hellyer River).

Please note that both of these suggestions require hard core off-track walking. Reading about some of the epic south-west trackless walks would be compulsory preparation. Google the words thrash, bauera and SUBW to see what I mean. When estimating distance that can be covered, it is important to realise that once thick bauera is encountered, your 'walking' pace could get down to only 100m per hour or so.

[Josef]

Thanks guys, I did try the search option first and was amazed at how little has been written. Do people generally not walk in the region? If so is this so because your options are generally limited to the of track, thick scrub type walks that tas trekker describes? All my off track walking has been in the central plateau/traveller range area...I guess the tarkine with its thick forest is a completely different world of walking requriing a different set of skills (or determination) would this be a fair assessment?
Cheers, Joe.

[the_camera_poser]

Matthias in a member from that neck of the woods- he's very helpful with info about the area- why not PM him?