Kathy Ombler beside a stream in the Goulter Valley, Mt Richmond Forest Park. Photo: Shaun Barnett/Black Robin Photography

Gambolling in the Goulter

July 2024

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A relaxing circuit in Mt Richmond Forest Park includes river rambling and attractive cascades, a lake and several huts.

Often we approach tramping like it’s a training schedule, a fitness programme or a ‘tick-the-box’ of completing another track. There’s nothing wrong with that, but it needn’t be that way. In the 1930s, ambitious speed trampers were dubbed ‘hissers’ by those enjoying a more sedate pace. The choice remains: tramp or toddle? Grunt or gambol? […]
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