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Lädt ... Take a walk in Kosciuszko National Parkvon John Daly
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Kosciuszko National Park is all about contrasts. It is a vast area where all facets of the environment go hand-in-hand, and one cannot exist without the others. Turn these pages to explore Australia's highest peaks and deepest gorges where warm summer days can give way to wintry storms and snow at the blink of an eye. Where windswept, treeless mountains overlook dens forests of the Great Dividing Range. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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But what of the walk descriptions? Covering such a big area in detail would mean either a huge book or overly brief notes on each walk. The authors seem to have abandoned the quantity over quality approach evident in their Victorian guide and 51 walks are described in reasonable detail, averaging a couple of pages each. All but seven of the walks are day walks. Each walk description has a a difficulty rating, a distance, a time estimate and is accompanied by a gradient profile and a basic but easily read map. The walk notes tend to be a little briefer than most, but are quite adequate for the majority of walkers. Most of the better day walks in the area are covered, including a few interesting off track walks. The walks are fairly standard and there are no descriptions of interesting walks in remote and rarely visited areas, but this book aims to be a popular guide rather than a guide to difficult walks in out of the way places. The author's habitual strict adherence to park boundaries is less important here as the great majority of the appealing and popular walks in the area are inside parks. In addition to the usual table of contents, the book also includes a useful index to walks at the back.
Notes for the entire length of the Australian Alps Walking Track are a welcome bonus and occupy the last 100 pages of the book. While this section is relatively brief for a 670 km route and is not as detailed as the terrific book by Chapman and Siseman published in 2008, the Daly's give a good overview of the full walk. The description sticks to the bureaucratic definition of the route, but it does include information on side trips and alternative routes that are followed by most people who walk the full length of the track. --© David Sisson