Three Capes Track, Tasmania in 1 day, Self guided 43km hike. The Blade, Cape Pillar, Cape Hauy. скачать в хорошем качестве

Three Capes Track, Tasmania in 1 day, Self guided 43km hike. The Blade, Cape Pillar, Cape Hauy.

I start my one day hike on the 3 Cape Pillar track from Fortescue Bay When entering the area, head past the office and the first registration point and go to the parking area for walking tracks Here you will see an area to pay for your park pass, a walkers registration area(don't register here)and a map of the walk Walk towards the office and go past by about 200m where you can find the track you need to take. It is good to know.....the track on the map is called Old Pillars Track that you need to take, but they have not sign posted the track. The sign post on the track you want to take has Bare Knoll campsite on it, this is the one you want I little up the track you will find the walkers registration for this track, just follow the instructions, remember to go back at the end and sign out. You follow this track up a steedy incline, but it isn't to bad, and it levels out for the most part of this leg of your walk. There are multiple skinny board walks making it a relatively easy and fast walking track. After about 1 1/2 to 2 hrs you will come to a cross road, at this point you go straight ahead following the marker to Cape Pillar. It is roughly an hour of pretty easy walking with most of this section having nice wide board walks to get to Munro, a well established building with areas to sit and lodgings for those doing the 4 day paid tour. There are toilets here and you can fill up your water bottles and even boil a kettle for a hot drink or a cup of soup. It is at Munro, once again, there is no sign for the trek to Cape Pillar, I was able to talk to a ranger who showed me the direction I needed to go. (so you know, itis the board walk to your left when you walk through the first building, past the accommodation area) I was told by the ranger the walk to Cape Pillar was 2hrs in, 2hrs out, and he is not to far wrong, I did it in 3.5hrs including stopping for probably 15mins to eat and rest a bit. There is a lot of board walk in this section making the walk pretty easy going, but when you think you are getting close, your not lol. The views in this part are what it is all about. There is quite a lengthy section of downhill steps that take you to The Blade. Here you have the option of going another 45min to Cape Pillar or a 5min walk up The Blade, due to time I did not go all the way to Cape Pillar, But you can see it from the tip of The Blade if you are game enough to peer over. After a quick 15min break sitting on top of the world eating lunch and having 4g coverage (face timed the wifey and went live on Insta). I start the trek back to Munro, up all those stairs you just came down. A quick drink bottle refill and then back to the cross section where we came out earlier. It is here you need to make a decision, you have done about 30kms by now. There is a sign saying if you go back the way you came it is approximately a 2hr walk back. The sign heading back via Cape Hauy, doesn't give you any time frames, so it is hard to base your decision on this, I decide, can't be too much of a worse walk than what I've already done, so decide to go via Cape Hauy. I knew it was longer but figured should be ok. About 10 minutes along you come to another established set of buildings that are where the paying peeps spend their last night, once again, no sign directing which way to go, for you information it is the one that is straight ahead. About 45min up a steady board walked incline you hit them, Stairs, lots of them....I walked up stairs for about an hour maybe hour and a half and there were still many more. This is where the lack of information is not good enough, at the cross section they should say how many stairs there are and a rough time frame from that point to Fortescue Bay is you go back via Cape Hauy. It is here people need to be able to make a decision on which way to go based on what each direction involves, I would not have gone via Cape Hauy if I knew the stair situation, length and the timeframe of that track, but it is to late by the time your 2hrs in to it. By this stage my knee from my earlier fall was really starting to dislike my decision to go back this way and it made for a slow trek. I reached the junction that takes you back to Fortescue Bay (1hr) and Cape Hauy (2rs return plus the 1hr back to Fortescue Bay) at about 7pm. The body definitely wasnt goona do Cape Hauy so I walk down just a bit a take a pic just as the phone died, then headed back for the last hour of my trek, returning at 8pm, sore and exhausted, but I did it! Things to Note: *Start at the track leading to Bare Knoll *Take a range of clothing to suit changing weather *Wear good shoes, thick socks *Watch out for snakes *Pack first aid items including a compression bandage or 2 *Take 2 litres of water that can be refilled and some packet electrolytes *Take a battery charger, as your phone dies quickly if you take alot of video and pics *Don't go via Cape Hauy on the return if you are already feeling exhausted.