Hiking The Overland Track Tasmania - 7 day hike | Bucket list adventure 11/52
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- Hiking Tasmania’s Overland Track through rain, hail, snow and shine + exploring side trips through the best of Cradle Mountain Lake St Clair National Park - Bucket list adventure 11/52
Hey everyone and welcome to my eleventh bucket list adventure for 2023! As you’ve heard me mention previously on my channel I hope this year to tick off something new every week and share my adventures as I go.
In this video I’ll be sharing Tasmania’s stunning Overland track hike which I recently completed with my parents over 7 days and 6 nights starting from Ronny Creek, Cradle Mountain down to Lake St Clair Visitor Centre.
Thanks for watching, if you have any comments or recommendations to add to my list I’d love to hear them otherwise I hope you enjoyed this video and hope to see you again next week for bucket list adventure No. 12!
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You are very lucky to have the sort of Mum & Dad you can do these walks with.
We were there early summer December 2022 and the conditions were similar. We were only doing some walks around the Cradle Mountain area - not the Overland Track - but that’s the sort of weather you can get even in summer.
I was surprised at the size and quality of some of the new huts. They weren’t like that years ago on my earlier visits !!
Hiked the overland in 2021. Great weather most days. Whiteout conditions on day 4, we attempted Mt. Ossa but turned back a few hundred meters from the summit, a solo hiker kept going and went missing for 6 hours. He returned with a near death experience and some pretty nasty injuries after getting disorientated and falling off the edge on the cliff onto rock and trees below. Other then that best experience of my life!!!
It's so awesome that you got to share that experience with your parents and create beautiful memories to cherish. It was definitely hectic weather conditions for you all. That sunrise over the lake was like the icing on the cake for the end of your hike. It's the little things like that, that just make you sit back and feel recharged and alive. Cheers for sharing Laura.
Thank you so much for this very educational video.. Me and my friend arenplanning on doing the OLT.
I am from Florida. This is the first time seeing this type of environment. I love your bright smile and excellent narration. It’s very important to keep good narration so many other people fail in this.
Wonderful experience with your parents!
You would have many similar hikes in the US when it comes to weather and topography but once you experience the Tasmanian flora and fauna you have to admit, there is nothing on earth (including mainland Australia) quite like it. I'm in training for this walk, I hope to do it in October (Spring) this year with my sister for my 50th birthday. I tried it 20 years ago but had to turn back because I had leg pains (I'm an amputee).
My wife and I went to Tasmania for our honeymoon and stayed. We have lived here for seventeen years.
That's gorgeous! I remember doing the short hike to Cradle Mountain a few times when I lived in Tassie when I was around 6 and 10 years old. I'd love to go back and do this, don't know if I'd get 7 days to spare though.
Awesome job mum and dad you guys are great role models you taught Laura well.
I did this track when I was 12, I’m 40 now and still have fond memories
You've produced a terrific account - I really enjoyed it. And wow, look at those flash huts - a far cry from the far more rudimentary accommodation I was familiar with as a guide in the park in the early 1980s. Wow. So much is still the same though - thank the gods. A very special place.
Awesome video Laura. I did the Overland track twice in the late 90's & early 2000's... at that time the construction of boardwalks had just commenced, targeting the worst section of track erosion & and waist deep holes in the button grass plains. Those new huts look stunning.
Keep up the posts
The overland track was my first big hike, amazingly we had perfect weather u til the last day. Couldn’t have asked for better. Thanks for the reminder.
Love that your parents hiked as well.
Thoroughly enjoyed watching. What a great family trip. Well done for making it happen. So important to spend quality time together when you can. Priceless.
once again you have provided an amazing travel log and how amazing to walk this track with your Mom and Dad. Well done Laura and look forward to watching your Coast to Coast sojourn which I truly want to explore .... training must begin .... thanks you are fun ...
"Gawd"--I was done for, after doing the Zig-Zag Track(in summer)--you've done well
This is SOOO good and wholesome! Thanks for your efforts and taking us on your adventure!!
-Liam 🇦🇺 🤙🏿
The OLT in May 2024 was character building. It is mentally and physically challenging. Although it is not a steep up hill walk like Hannel's spur it was a long week in some very cold, wet , snowy and muddy weather.
Great job putting this video together. I walked the track in Dec last year in great weather, got lots of footage the first couple of days, but was too exhausted to keep up with videos the last few. Highly recommend the track and loved watching your video which brought back some amazing memories!
Amazing we are heading there in January. Can't wait this was a great video. Thanks for sharing.
This is a definite bucket list hike. You got awesome parents! Wish mine shared my love of the wild.
WOW what an incredible effort. Thank you so much for your video, awesome!
Love your video style! Amazing watch ❤ Tassie is the best xx
Love it! Happy for you😊
Loved watching this. I started the track a day before you! The weather on those first few days was crazy - but I found it made it even more of an adventure. Best of luck on your travels.
Thanks for posting your video of the Overland trail. It was informative and inspiring; especially mum, dad and daughter doing this together - awesome.
Loved this!
Absolutely brilliant, your attitude is infectious 😁
She's earning a living
Beautiful Laura, Love your creations 🙏❤️☺️
Great video! Thanks for sharing very helpful and love that you did this with your parents 😊
Loved this episode. Beautiful shots and you certainly did a great job of capturing your experience.
Great stuff! 🙌🏔️🤙
What a wonderful adventure and a great achievement! I look forward to watching your other videos now!
Fantastic!
Yeesh. That was an adventure !
Well done! I can’t wait to do this
Great video 😊😊
What a great video. Informative and well narrated. Thanks 👍
WOW, that was just amazing. The weather was truely extreme, but l am sure that makes completing the adventure a more spectacular achievement. ❤
Well done! That march weather was hectic, glad you made it safely. Some people went the wrong way and ended up at Scott kilvert hut that week.
Just watched this and rediscovered your channel (I'd watched your Girraween video a long time ago when daydreaming of SEQ). Fantastic document of your adventure and what great luck to experience the Overland with snow like that in Summer! My wife and I did the trail in December 2016, and I have been planning to mark 10 years since than hike by tackling (and filming it) it Winter 2026! Seeing your video makes me even more inspired to do so!
Thank you, I really enjoyed this!. I have MS & would love to do this track, just wanting to build up fitness & stability 1st. I’m subbing, looking forward to watching more of your vids
you are cool! incredible durability💪👍
Absolutely awesome video. So cool that you got to do this with your fit and enthusiastic parents. I'm glad you went to that summit and filmed the views up there incredible! Quick question for a newcomer like me. I'm after new boots and a tent. What brand boots are you 3 wearing and who's boots feared the best do you think? And was your one night stay in tent warm and comfortable would you recommend? Many thanks
Love your video! It's informative and I'm exciting to visit Tasmania soon. I'm wondering if I can hike the overland track and do the Cradle Summit in the same trip? Do you have suggestion?
Love this!! Thank you we are so excited!!
Do you think the hike from Kia Ora hut to Narcissus or Echo Point is too long for 1 day? As we want to finish day 6 trekking around Lake St Clair? 😬 So nervous!
Those were really light packs I think my was 28 kg geared up for 10 days tent, food, fuel, and all.
Yep. Mine was 29 + kgs. It was too bleeding heavy. It made the trek less enjoyable.
Lovely scenery, but
What month did you do ths walk? That weather scares me lol
Looks like early March, according to the BOM.
Thanks
Which month would that be?
Lutruwita was, still is and always will be Aboriginal Land.
lol,
woah what a great trek for you !! 🏔️🏞️🤙😎📹