Richard Rumsey
Completed: 3 April, 2025
- Start date: 19 July, 2024
- Age When Completed: 54
- Direction Walked: Both
Track Towns and Supplies
- How many days did you stay in Track Towns? 7
- Did you have any issues finding food/supplies? No
- Resupplied in towns had no issues but not fussy and happy to eat ramen
- Dwellingup
- Donnelly River Village
- Pemberton
Your Story or Advice for Others
General CommentsI am grateful for meeting a lot of interesting and different people and I learned many new things to help me level up my hiking skills.
Your Best Equipment
Walking poles- they helped me to stagger into camp in the afternoons, stopped me from slipping and falling over many times, and held my tent up!
Your Worst Equipment
My squeaky leaking sleep pad. My poncho during gale force wind events and near constant rain from Albany to Walpole. Should have brought my rain jacket in retrospect. My bad left knee.
Advice for Others
I think next time I will be more relaxed about having to be anywhere at any particular time.
Trip Details
How you completed the Bibbulmun Track:- In sections
- How many days did it take you to complete the Track? 57
- Who did you complete the Track with? Solo (primarily)
- Was undertaking your hike the PRIMARY/MAIN purpose of your TRAVEL from where you currently live? Yes
- What first prompted you to walk the Bibbulmun Track? Local knowledge
- BT Maps
- App (please specify)
- - FarOut
Your Experience
- Availability of information: Excellent - E2E work shop was great!
- Amount of Wildlife Encountered: Good - I saw an Echidna! Highlight of my day.
Pingerup plains once it was navigable
Highlight of your trip
The constant rain, flooding and falling trees. Being alone for a days and days and then jabbering like a mad man once you finally get to talk to someone. The green tunnel. The vista of the ocean after weeks in the bush. Seeing my family when I got home. Not being a fat bastard once I got home. Meeting a childhood friend randomly at camp I had not seen in 40 years!