North-South walks debate [Split]

[sthughes]

A list written by southerners for southerners.

Does "harder day walks" and "Wineglass Bay" go together

How bout Cathedral, Ossa, Pelion East, Ragoona or even Barn Bluff from Ronnies (maybe back via Scott Kilvert) for a start. Can't say I'd recommend the first 3 as I couldn't be bothered walking that far in a day, but I know they can be done.
Or do you mean "challenging" as in off track?

[ILUVSWTAS]

:lol: A list written by southerners for southerners.

Does "harder day walks" and "Wineglass Bay" go together

How bout Cathedral, Ossa, Pelion East, Ragoona or even Barn Bluff from Ronnies (maybe back via Scott Kilvert) for a start. Can't say I'd recommend the first 3 as I couldn't be bothered walking that far in a day, but I know they can be done.
Or do you mean "challenging" as in off track?

Did you scroll down the page Hughes? there's a couple of walks in the Central and Northern areas, just not many decent walks up that way as we've discussed before..

[sthughes]

Yes I saw at least one or two - yay!

I know southerners rate the "decency" of any walk as inversely proportional to the distance from the Hobart P.O.

Good stuff taswegian

[ollster]

I know southerners rate the "decency" of any walk as inversely proportional to the distance from the Hobart P.O.

I'll bite, troll boy.

Uh huh. And our Northern "kissin' cousins" won't walk anything without a signposted track. Yeeeee haw!

[ILUVSWTAS]

Lol,
Dont be too harsh, they have got Mt Arthur and the Western Tiers dont forget....

[ollster]

Lol,
Dont be too harsh, they have got Mt Arthur and the Western Tiers dont forget....

Ewe shur gat a purdy maith boi.

[ILUVSWTAS]

shucks billyboy yur to kinde.

[taswegian]

looks like we need to draw a line across the state here
just north of Wineglass to north of Strahan
and let the southerners bash it out while we northerners enjoy the 'trackless wastes' that make up much of the hinterland.

[ILUVSWTAS]

Sounds good to me!!

You can enjoy your barren trackless wasteland, and we'll have the good bits.

Although Strahan is too far south, Zeehan to Bicheno sounds better......

[ollster]

I couldn't be bothered walking that far in a day, but I know they can be done.

I reckon we've just found a new "bagging" list. We can call it the Sthughes's - walks that are too far for Sthughes to be bothered walking but he knows they can be done. C'mon, I'm sure there is a pretty extensive list you could give us. Creepy crawly nature trail?

[ILUVSWTAS]

Being a Scot Kurt freaked me out a bit!

I'm looking for changeling day walks

In Celtic (predominantly Irish) mythology, a changeling is an evil spirit which removes a child from its cradle, then takes the child's place (in the form of the child, but with evil characteristics).

Sounds like normal Northern Tasmaina behaviour.

[doogs]

Sounds like normal Northern Tasmaina behaviour.

Hmmm...not sure if I believe you, no mention of drinking bourbon and coke, shooting signs or playing the banjo!

[ILUVSWTAS]

Sounds like normal Northern Tasmaina behaviour.

Hmmm...not sure if I believe you, no mention of drinking bourbon and coke, shooting signs or playing the banjo!

you forgot the mindless Trail bike action.

[frenchy_84]

I was wondering who owned that big glass house in the huon valley, how is it this time of year iluvswtas?

[ILUVSWTAS]

Ummm, yeh. It's nice.
Could do with a bit of rain though, very dry. Tanks almost empty.

[ollster]

I think this post was kind of like a red flag to a bull

No, that was Sthughes trolling.

[sthughes]

Sorry I didn't mean to be "trolling". Just I felt that Kurt implied he was after northern walks and got a list that tended to suggest that harder day walks only exist in the south. Was I incorrect in saying that the list was "A list written by southerners for southerners"?? If it is written for those of us in the north then it is a poor list.

[ILUVSWTAS]

Sorry I didn't mean to be "trolling". Just I felt that Kurt implied he was after northern walks and got a list that tended to suggest that harder day walks only exist in the south. Was I incorrect in saying that the list was "A list written by southerners for southerners"?? If it is written for those of us in the north then it is a poor list.

Well it WAS from the HOBART walking club.

there are walking clubs up north I believe, but as im not a member nor care about them, I posted the HWC list......

[Liamy77]

Being a Scot Kurt freaked me out a bit!

I'm looking for changeling day walks

In Celtic (predominantly Irish) mythology, a changeling is an evil spirit which removes a child from its cradle, then takes the child's place (in the form of the child, but with evil characteristics).

Are you sure your name isn't Kult!!!

had the same thought... i think you have to walk 9 times counter clockwise around "the mountain" on Samhain solstice carrying various secret fey wards for protection?!


otherwise try this WALK for size (if it is too easy then run it instead .... then dial "000" )


btw you guys got any walks like this 5mins from the city center up north? ......just thought i'd add my bit to the great north - south debate....

[ILUVSWTAS]

I dont think such a walk exists up North Liam!!

[Liamy77]

I dont think such a walk exists up North Liam!!

intonation/sarcasm is hard via text....that was my point too

sorry north-folk - your welcome to visit us down here for challenges when youre bored!

[Nuts]

What... Kurt didnt mention the South, nor moving at snails pace through horror all day, of course there are challenging walks up this way. Any can be 'challenging' given constraints of time or weather. Ive found Lake Dove to Waterfall 'challenging', starting after dark, with 35/40kg, in winter with heavy snow... I'm sure i'd find keeping up with the guys that ran through the same way last saturday in less than an hour 'challenging' mid-summer... Why always scrub, I'm sure my dog got the same challenge dealing with being attacked by a cat this morning!

Pillinger via Lk McCoy that sirius mentioned has a bit of everything for a day walk... including some great views along the way, some tracks, some crud!

(btw... with the geographical centre of Tassie somewhere near Bronte, wouldn't that make Strahan to Swansea the great divide )

[ILUVSWTAS]

Probably right Nuts, maybe we need to make it into 3 sections, North, South and Central.

[ollster]

Why always scrub, I'm sure my dog got the same challenge dealing with being attacked by a cat this morning!

Not to sound ungrateful for your advice Nuts, but... I was just suggesting a genuinely hard walk - ie: more than just "follow the track for 10 hours" stuff that people call "hard" - and it's up North and not too long that it will make people eat their own feet off before finishing.

Why "always" scrub? Cause it's always *&%$#! hard!!! It also includes navigational requirements, not just following track markers, which make walks harder. (and with the almost-failsafe of the road ringing the range, so he shouldn't get too lost if something goes wrong).

He asked for challenging, I've given him a hard walk.

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[Nuts]

No getting off that easy, i'll wait to see how challenging you find the Eldons before I agree, I consider them ours dagnamit...

edit..woops ^ for ILSW, too slow...

Now...what did that other southerner have to say...

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[ollster]

No getting off that easy, i'll wait to see how challenging you find the Eldons before I agree, I consider them ours dagnamit...

LOL. I expect to be thrashed and thrashed badly, especially with the schedule we've got planned...

[Nuts]

Hey... I cant keep up... lol, let me ponder your first post...

[ILUVSWTAS]

No getting off that easy, i'll wait to see how challenging you find the Eldons before I agree, I consider them ours dagnamit...

edit..woops ^ for ILSW, too slow...

Now...what did that other southerner have to say...

Hahaha Lol, yeh I wont dispute that, and will let you claim the Eldons (although they should be a part of the western zone maybe) from what I read though, there's alot of open walking up there with patches of thick scrub, down here with have thick scrub with patches of open walking....

[walkinTas]

I dont think such a walk exists up North Liam!!

Tall peaks in the NORTHERN half of the State: Smithies Peak, Misery Bluff, Ossians Throne, Old Bills Monument, Circinus Peaks, Magnet Crag, Weindorfers Tower, Denison Crag, Mount Olympus (South), Whymper Crags, Geryon (South Spur), Naturalist Peak, Lamonts Lookout, The Knuckle, Twin Spires, Windmill Top, Zion Hill, Asgard Crag, Turrana Heights, Heimdall Crag, Storys Bluff, South Barrow, Richmond Crag, Benson Peak, Moriah, Mount, Tumble Tor, Little Sugarloaf, Mount Ophel, Stein Crags, Bent Bluff, Black Bluff, Broken Bluff, Mount Doris, Tudor Crag, Eldon Range, Deception Point, Pine Lake Prospect, Eliza Bluff, Starvegut Hill, Adams Peak, The Watcher, Little Split Rock, Cromwell Rise, The Gatepost, Frances Bluff, Dome Hill, Little Throne, Fury Gorge Prospect, Mount Parmeener, Curate Bluff, Green Bluff, Convent Hill, Crater Peak, Vicar Bluff, Meander Crag, Lightning Ridge, Panorama Hill, Thark Ridge, Traveller Range, Lake Nicholls Prospect, Haldane Peak, Restoration Hill, Clarks Timber, Fergus Bluff, Prince Alberts Throne, Mount Roland.

Ok! There are one or two taller peaks in the southern half.

[ILUVSWTAS]

More than half of those described are in the St Clair reserve. Thats Central... More Southern than Northern in fact

And I dont count the NE as North either. That's a whole different Zone.

Sooo I guess that leaves?? St Valentines peak. Which can be done in under 3 hrs.