Congratulations to the 'Four-Mid-Ables' who are now Champions of the Mountain Designs Bibbulmun Team Challenge 2003!! Gold Fields Australia came an extremely...
Back by popular demand, Bob Cooper & his scaly friends will return to our Subiaco store to discuss & demonstrate the very important topic of snake bite first...
Hi Mountain Designs Summer 2003 Catalogue is now available online (PDF) at <http://www.mountaindesigns.com/>. The catalogue comes in a series of PDF files, so...
Hi Apparently on Sunday 30 November the Grimwade Campsite (just north of Balingup) was vandalised by a group who had driven in. The water tank was holed and...
There is a temporary diversion of the Track due to aerial prescribed burning which affects the Track to the immediate north of the Donnelly River Village. The...
Hi For those interested, CALM Albany have advised (December 16, 2003) that the sandbar at the mouth of Torbay Inlet has closed making it an easy walk across....
Hi CALM have advised (December 12, 2003) that the Bibbulmun Track is being diverted around the Mt Clare campsite due to a prescribe burn. As a result the Mt...
Hi It seems that the long awaited 1:50 000 maps of the Southern half of the Bibbulmun Track have now been released. The new maps are: Map 5 Pemberton Map 6...
Hi For those interested, BackpackGearTest.org <http://backpackgeartest.org> has completed the following product tests during December, 2003. These tests are...
Hi The Bibbulmun Track Foundation (no mention of this on CALM's website) is reporting that the Water Corporation will be opening the Torbay Inlet on Wednesday...
Hi Everyone Just a quick update of a walk from the Hills Activity Centre into Helena campsite on the weekend. A group of eight of us from Perth Bushwalkers ...
Hi Information for MSR Pocket Rocket owners - see http://www.recalls.gov.au/recalls_last30days.cfm?rcl_type=recalls_consumer&psa_id=10435 for details of the...
Hi CALM are advising that the Mt Clare section (section 45 - 46 of the Southern guidebook) of the Bibbulmun Track has been reopened. Regards Andrew Priest -- ...
Hi It seems that school groups are out in force in February. Campsites to be invaded are: February 20, 2004: Boat Harbour and Gregory Brook February 21, 2004:...
G'day;Sydney based bloke, 50yo arriving W.A. mid March 04 seeking walking partner/s for part/all of his end-to-end (South to North)walk on the Bibbulmun...
Hi Group The Department of Conservation and Land Management (CALM) are advising that the Irwin Inlet (Section 51 of the Southern Guidebook) is open. This...
Hi Everyone Snuck out last night and dropped into Monadnocks Campsite. More of a camping trip than a walk as I only walked in from Randall Road. Was good to ...
... Hi Roger Thanks for the update. Very important information to have! Sadly once again CALM does not reflect this on its Track Conditions & Other News news...
My wife and I did this section of the track in the middle of last week, staying overnight in the Canning and Monadnocks huts. The bush, track and huts are all...
... Hi Thanks for the update. I have taken the liberty of posting your comments on the Mt Cooke and Nerang campsites on the Aushiker Yahoo! group at ...
We have just completed the track from torbay to denmark , we found the track in good order the huts where exceptional and all tanks were full and the water was...
According to the Calm Bib Track news: Mt Cooke shelter is now completed, while a temporary campsite still exist at Nerang. The rebuilding of the Nerang shelter...
Hi I appreciate that this posting may be a off-topic for some of the groups I have posted it to, but I hope you will indulge me, as it is hiking related (gear...
Hi Thanks to Anthony Dunk <http://adunk.ozehosting.com/> for the heads-up on this. For the Wild Magazine fans, Wild now have a online searchable index which...
CALL FOR GEAR TESTERS Hi All This is a blatant plug for BackpackGearTest. We want more Testers to test FREE gear. Why? Read on. BackpackGearTest.org or BGT (as...
Hello all Just wondering, I am planning to organise a end-to-end hike of the Bibbulmun Track from Kalamunda through to Albany. Can anybody give me ideas on the...
Hi Just a reminder that the Great Australian Bushwalk is coming up on October 24, 2004. Further details at <http://www.greataustralianbushwalk.org.au/>. ...
