Bushwalk Australia

sandym wrote:The east coast fires were 2020. In the first year or so afterward, walking was easy in many places as the scrub was burnt. By 2021, the bush was regrowing really thickly and I had trips where my clothes were ripped to shreds (literally) and my pace was about 1 km per hour. Since then, things may have got worse, I think, certainly not better. The regrowth that was waist high is now 3 metres high and progress is made by tunneling through like a rabid wombat. Sometimes even managing a kilometre an hour is actually fast.

What are people's opinions on when the forests will return to more open large trees with minimal understory? Will it be decades? Will it be never? Are some tracks gone for good? Some areas got very little traffic before the fires and probably much less now; after all, who actually enjoys bashing through at a km/hour as your clothes get shredded?

There are not many reports on the forums here, but what reports there are talk about pretty rough conditions on routes that were passable before the fires.

Interested in any and all opinions.