Terrain
The terrain is a mix of open woodland, rocky and swampy watercourses and spinifex scrub. There will be a number of short but steep climbs and one long, steep climb down into Wittenoom gorge. Some of the optional day walks will include sections where you need to go along narrow ledges. Some sections go through thick grass that hides rocks so you need to watch every step. If it weren’t for the fact that we often do day walks from base camps, this trip would rate as HARD/level 4 rather than MODERATE/level three.
Vegetation
Mostly quite open but the vegetation can vary dramatically from year to year. If, as is likely, we have to walk through unburnt spinifex, you will need heavy duty gaiters as the spinifex easily penetrates long trousers and lightweight gaiters.
4-6 hours per day
You need to carry one weeks worth of food.