The plan was to follow a ridge line to the top of a hill to the east of the main peak.

Today, we were starting with Wentworth Hills and would be approaching it from the South/South East.

Well, this one had been on the ‘aiming to do list’ for some time. Back in January 2018, Crawf and I had attempted a very quick overnighte...

Middle of winter in Tasmania means there is little time for Abels. However, this has never put me off and on a work trip to Hobart I found a

I liked this summit. While a bitter wind blew in from the west, we had fantastic views, albeit a bit cloudy of all the south western peaks.

If you've read the blog post, you know what happened. Here is a movie of that fateful trip to Rat's Castle on Tasmania's Central Plateau.

This year, I had to make a lot of trips from Launceston to Hobart. With constant construction on the main highway, I was enjoying taking ...

Winter was here... and Woolza had put the call out for the first winter walk of the season. Rat's Castle was the objective. We headed up ...

With all the roadworks on the Midlands Highway, I had been making my regular drive to Hobart a bit more scenic by driving south via Highl...

I had been thinking about the 'two towers' for some time and I must say, with some trepidation. Mates had done the peaks previously and d...

To my great satisfaction, 2019 was shaping up to be a year of Abelling. With winter fast approaching I was keen to get a few more out of ...

From Launceston, Ragged Jack stands prominently by Ben Lomond's side. It's an obvious and pretty 'bad ass' looking peak that has always e...

To the disbelief of most of my friends, I had never attempted or completed a walk up Quamby Bluff. I had gazed on it so many times from v...

It was a Friday afternoon when Crawf put the call out for this one. I didn't have much planned for the weekend and Crawf sends an email o...

I had a free weekday morning, so after school drop offs I hit the road and was on my way towards Poatina. After an hour I was at the star...

Woolza and I found a quick window of opportunity to sneak out for one last summer mid-week overnighter. Thursday afternoon at about 4pm, w...

I had a morning to spare, so planned a quick jaunt up Ben Nevis. I’d admired this from a distance for years and was keen to add it to my ...

Tom had put the call out for a quick overnight trip to the Abel of Mensa Moor, located just off the Ben Lomond Plateau. I received his em...

Arriving on the west coast a day early for Annual Adventure Weekend, John and I decided to take on Mt Murchison. We were hoping to walk a...

A quick overnight trip afterwork to knock off another Abel. The team from the previous weeks overnighter to Cummings head gathered in Lau...