Tracey Doyle (Tracey Trailblazer)

Completed: 27 October, 2023

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Tracey Trailblazer

Start date: 30 August, 2023
Age When Completed: 62
Direction Walked: Southbound

Track Towns and Supplies

Did you have any issues finding food/supplies? Yes
above and beyond to facilitate our change of plans and deliver our supplies to Mount Cook. As an added bonus we were gifted avocado, fresh coffee, cakes and dried persimmon (a first taste for us and absolutely delicious). Almost everything else was available in track towns.

Your Story or Advice for Others

General Comments
We had so much readily available information at our disposal. It really made planning our walk so much easier. We were very grateful to the BTF team.

Your Best Equipment
Physiocrem saved the day for me. I used it daily on my ankles and knees. There wasn't much left at the end of the walk due to other people using it.

Your Worst Equipment
Without a doubt my Nemo sleeping mat. We were able to buy a Sea to Summit air mattress online which we then picked up in Dwellingup.

Advice for Others
Take it slowly, look after your body and stretch every afternoon and then stretch again.

Trip Details

How you completed the Bibbulmun Track:

All at once

Who did you complete the Track with? Other - Sherpa Shane
Was undertaking your hike the PRIMARY/MAIN purpose of your TRAVEL from where you currently live? No

Your Experience

Favourite Section
Long Point to Mt Clare. It was incredibly exciting to see a garden in the dunes.

Highlight of your trip
Being able to complete the walk after fracturing my wrist before walking into Balingup was fantastic. Big thanks to my husband (Sherpa Shane) for tying up my laces for 600 km's, not to mention setting up camp every afternoon and packing up of a morning. We did it!