Great Walks

Great Walks is packed with gear guides, product reviews, advice on the best travel destinations, inspiring real-life accounts from seasoned walkers and practical information on specific walks and their accompanying maps. From features on the country’s best bushwalks to reviews of the latest outdoor gear, Great Walks is about discovering our amazing national parks and coastline – anywhere where there’s a walking track. Filled with lush photos, detailed walk notes and aspirational overseas destinations, Great Walks is designed to entertain and inspire.

MAKING MEMORIES

Great Walks Magazine

LAKE MACKINTOSH, TASMANIA

THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT • Life comes full circle for Tim Orchard on Victoria’s highest peak.

A MACPAC RAPAKI 22L PACK

SMALL FAMILY, BIG ADVENTURE • A couple and their toddler experience true wilderness and a little drama on the 5300km National Trail.

Q&A

COMFORT FACTOR • For Helen Hayes, a four-day luxury guided Caption Tem hitatur sum lam experience renistrum eratas abo. Videl on WA’s Cape to Cape Track is ignias imperum arum audae the natur perfect introduction to bushwalking.

GUIDED CAPE TO CAPE TRACK WITH WALK INTO LUXURY

ON THE EDGE • Great Walks takes on what Sir Edmund Hillary called ‘Australia’s only real mountain’, the Arthur Range.

WESTERN ARTHUR TRAVERSE

TRIP PLANNING

SHOW ME THE WAY • Looking for a guided walk along the Apple Isle? Well look no further!

PICTURE PERFECT • Great Walks readers send us their best bushwalking snaps.

WIN A POCKETROCKET DELUXE STOVE

THE POWER AND THE PASSION • Great Walks showcases the beauty of America’s greatest novelist Ernest Hemingway.

GIMME SHELTER • Great Walks explore some of Alpine NP’s historic huts.

NORTHERN EXPOSURE • Great Walks explores Canada’s Yukon province and discovers a land of wild trails and ripping yarns.

YUKON’S KLUANE NATIONAL PARK

SAND, SURF & SOLITUDE • Great Walks showcases 14 mighty mainland coastal tracks – from Albany to Eden (and plenty in-between!)

FANTASY ISLAND • Australia’s remote Cocos Keeling Islands offers a truly unique atoll walk.

NEED TO KNOW

TOTAL MELTDOWN • Great Walks gets to the bottom of heat exhaustion after experiencing it first-hand.

BEAT THE HEAT

LIGHTEN UP • Great Walks checks out 12 lightweight products perfect for your next bushwalk.

PERFECT MATCH • Great Walks checks out Sea to Summit’s Sleep System designed to match you with the right sleeping bag, liner, mat and pillow.

SWEET DREAMS ARE MADE OF THIS • Great Walks offers 10 tips for getting your best night’s sleep in a tent.

UP AND ATOM • Stuggling with too much couch time and middle age spread, Wayne Mullane changes his mindset to get fit and prepare for that next big walk.

TRACK TESTED TREATS • Great Walks tries out some new gear on the trail.

TENT MAKER REACHES GOLD MILESTONE • Great Walks learns a bit more about tentmaker Hilleberg as the brand turns 50.

BY THE BOOK • Check out these great nature books and guidebooks.

MOUNT RORAIMA, VENEZUELA • Mount Roraima is the highest of the Pakaraima chain of tabletop mountains in South America. It serves as the tripoint of Venezuela, Guyana and Brazil, and lies on the Guiana Shield in the southeastern corner of Venezuela’s 30,000 sq km Canaima NP. And the hike to the top is one you’ll never forget!

LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT • Barry Duykers of the Southern Ocean Walk loves the Heysen Trail’s coastal area so much he got married there!

SONG OF THE SOUTH • Guidebook author Warwick Sprawson shares highlights of the Great South West Walk, one of Victoria’s best but least known long-distance walks.

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