Trent Critchley (Treebeard)
Completed: 28 November, 2019
Treebeard
- Start date: 5 October, 2019
- Age When Completed: 33
- Direction Walked: Southbound
Track Towns and Supplies
- Did you have any issues finding food/supplies? Yes
- Resupplied at towns along the way and found it easy. You can buy muesli bars (breakfast), chocolate and dried fruit (day snacks), and pasta/rice sides or freeze-dried meals (dinner) in every town now. Gas is available in some form in every town too.
Your Story or Advice for Others
General CommentsA terrific experience.
Your Best Equipment
Fly head net saved my sanity on several days. Hiking poles saved my ankles on several others.
Your Worst Equipment
The GPS unit that I worked out during the first section I didn't need - just used Osmand app on my phone with a Bibb GPX file to confirm my location if looking at the paper map wasn't conclusive enough.
Advice for Others
Don't book accommodation too far in advance, as you may find you're more capable than you think! Give yourself the freedom to be a bit flexible if you can. Also, the wilderness tour in Walpole is a hoot - do it.
Trip Details
How you completed the Bibbulmun Track:- All at once
- Who did you complete the Track with? Solo (primarily)
- Was undertaking your hike the PRIMARY/MAIN purpose of your TRAVEL from where you currently live? No
- What first prompted you to walk the Bibbulmun Track? Other
Your Experience
Walpole to Denmark
Highlight of your trip
- Walking across the top of Mt Cooke in eerie cloud mist - Listening to the birds at Monadnocks and Warren shelters - First sightings of karri and tingle trees - Sunsets over the Pingerup plains and the ocean - That coastline...