Rock Bivouacs

February 2012

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February 2012

Shaun Barnett at the smaller of the Mark's Flat rock bivs.
See more… rock bivouacs While walking up the Young Valley a couple of years ago, I came across a great gash in the forest, with large trees splintered like kindling for hundreds of metres up the hillside. Resting at an oblique angle was the creator of all this destruction: an enormous boulder. It had been […]
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