From Gladstone Downs, head up the Hodder River. The narrow ravine cuts through steep, broken hinterland, hemmed in by vertiginous, crumbling walls that rise to a slash of blue sky above. An hour upriver is the confluence where the Shin flows in. Somewhere up above is Shin Hut, but it can be hard to find. […]
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