Day 2 of the Piccaninny Creek Trek.

We go deeper into the gorge and attempt to do some of the Fingers or side gorges. In total there are 5, but one is closed for safety issues. The further in we go, the wilder the gorge gets and the harder it becomes to move easily. Hiking turns to bouldering and carrying packs makes this a slow process.

Can we make it to the end of the gorge before we have to turn around to get back to camp before dark?

(We have written a whole Newsletter blog on this, so if you are keen on more details check the link below)

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/TKE1/tke-plan-attack-ed-32-the-hike-beat-all-hikes

It was 3 days and 53kms of some of the hardest hiking we have ever done. But it was worth every second.

There is no designated walking track. You just follow a creek bed. If you went up the wrong way, you had to double back and try another way. If you came up to sand, boulders, water holes etc. - you had to find a way through or past. Even if that meant swimming or bouldering.

We started the hike at the Southern end carpark (same spot as Domes and Cathedral), but hiked past all of them. To start with, the creek was nice and flat, with quite easy walking. But it was very hot and exposed. As the day wore on and the kilometres added up, we moved onto rock hopping and bush bashing amongst the 100-200m high gorge walls.

For our camp, we pitched our tent in the middle of the gorge. We felt tiny against the backdrop of the gorge walls - these were so high our GPS' were playing up and our PLB couldn't get signal.

Apart from a thousand helicopters flying over every 15 minutes, it was so quiet in the gorge, your footsteps echoed.