Tasmania - The Overland Track 15 - 20 June 2019

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I was invited by my sister, Alicson, who lives in Tasmania to join her and her husband Shane on this walk. Unfortunately Shane had to pull out due to an injury. But this meant he could help with the logisitics - driving us to our start at Lake St Clair and then picking us up at Cradle Mountain. Many thanks to Shane for this.

Gear considerations - Basically one set of clothes to walk in, and one to ear inside the huts. We expected wet cold weather and that is what we had. I mainly walked in a light thermal top, a shirt, a light fleece, and long johns and shorts below. Often there would be an outer layer - rain jacket and overpants. A beanie was constantly worn. I had taken a sun-hat to Tasmania but left it out. In the huts, I had a spare thermal top, a down jacket and fleece pants. Footwear - I took walking shoes with thick socks and gaiters. These were fine, but I often had wet feet by the end of the day. My sister wore boots and her feet stayed a lot drier. I took light gloves, which I wore most of the time, and also heavier mittens which I wore one and a half days. My feet were only cold when starting out on the two days I had to put on wet socks and shoes on two mornings. Those were after spending the nights in two huts where the heaters were not working. I had dry socks for the huts, but would have liked something warmer for walking around in - like hut slippers. We both took trekking poles, which were very useful for balance in slippery conditions. We also took microspikes - with we used on the last day. They were very useful!

Camera Gear - I took a Sony full frame mirrorless camera with a 16 - 35 mm f4 lens, a 50 mm f 2.8 macro lens (for fungi) and an old Pentax M series 150 mm f 3.5 lens with adapter. I also took a small tabletop tripod for fungi and waterfall photos.