Nicholas Barker (Nick B)

Your Story or Advice for Others

General Comments
Absolute blast - the quality of weather and scenery only beaten by the people you meet out there. We are unbelievably lucky to have this track in our backyard.

Your Best Equipment
Altra Timp trail runners - lasted me the whole trail, no foot issues and the only blisters I ever got were after the long sections of wading in puddles. Backpack: Atom Packs Prospector 50L - lightweight, comfortable and let barely any water in. Very happy with it and carried all of my gear with the huge food loads necessary when my appetite increased!

Your Worst Equipment
Have to say my sleeping pad, the pad itself is not bad, just too small for me. was too narrow and made for some restless nights tossing and turning. Investing in a bigger pad for next time!

Advice for Others
Do it! Prepare and do your research, but once you stop stressing about the more daunting aspects of long distance hiking and just get out there it all becomes much easier. Try out your gear beforehand! Met and heard stories of many people having to drastically change what they carried realising how too much/little they had when they first started.

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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

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Your Experience

Favourite Section
Extremely difficult to answer, if I had to say it would probably be the last couple of days North of Pemberton, Beavis onwards. That being said, not one section that I disliked the whole way.

Highlight of your trip
Hitting the coast at Mandalay Beach definitely stuck with me, after the days of wading between Gardner Campsite and Walpole it was heavenly to put my feet in the ocean. Also just reminded me how far I had walked from Kalamunda!

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