A group of hikers struggle through the challenging Overland Track in Tasmania, while a young woman finds it surprisingly easy.
The young woman bounded up the rocky slope and crested Du Cane gap – 1070 metres above sea level and the highest point of the day’s hike. “Is this the top? That was surprisingly easy,” she declared, all lycra shorts and French braids, before striding off down the next section of track.
“Champagne and lobster,” replied my old mate, Stan, who has not, over many years, lost his penchant for taking the piss.“When you travel / A new silence goes with you, And if you listen, you will hear / What your heart would love to say.
An atheist , I was invited to join her to write about it. For backup, I put out a call to some of my oldest friends. Four responded; two sisters I’ve known for decades, Sue and Cathy, and two other old friends, Stan – a speaker and author who established a life-coaching company – and Gabrielle. These are people whom I can neglect for a year or more at a time, then fall instantly back into the intimacy of our younger, cheekier selves.
We walked in weather ranging from howling, icy wind and rain to streaming sunlight. We scrambled up boulders to the top of Mount Ossa, Tasmania’s tallest peak, and took in the geological miracle of the region’s monumental vertical rock formations and U-shaped glacial valleys.We saw fungus growing on a tree, which grew over the fungus, which then grew over the tree again.
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