I took TJ on our first overnight hike together last Monday. We drove out to Blackwood and found where we could join a section of the 'Great Dividing Trail - Lerderderg Track'. First mistake, we were following direction if the guide book in reverse - I'll never do that again. It's really hard trying to follow the directions, backwards.
We were looking for a picnic ground at the 7km mark with toilets, picnic tables and a shelter to have lunch but it didn't appear and according to my Garmin (GPS watch) we were about 1.5km past where it should've been. Alarm bells should have been ringing but we just wrote it off as 'Stupid map'. Um, won't write the map off as being stupid in the future.
12km into our hike we suddenly realised that we were back at a junction of another track - the Lerderderg River Historic Track and that we'd been following markers for that rather than continuing on the Great Dividing Trail! Doh! Oh the horror of it. It was like we were in the Wombat 'Blair Witch' Forest.
Neither of us could remember how far we were from the car until we came to a small 'warning' sign which I remember seeing about a km or so from where I first suspected the Picnic Ground should've been... so I knew that although we'd come about 14km, we still had a fair way to go. Double Doh!
At that point we decided to just get back to the car and then go home.
We carried about 35kg of gear and water and food between us over a 17.5km circuit!!!
Good exercise and my achillies held up really well - not even sore. Amazing. My lower calves are still a bit tender and tight but they're getting better every day. Whoohoo!
Now I have to convince TJ to come with me again...
Garmin stats:
17.43km
4:54
1756 ascent
1775 descent
657 calories
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