Mount Solitary Hike.

I have wanted to do this hike for quite some years but it all never seemed to line up between back burning, land slides and closures and it has been recently closed for aerial pest control (and still landslide) but as luck would have it the eastern side access to Mount Solitary was opened again on the 1st November. So I gave it a crack, whilst walking from the eastern side is certainly not my preferred option, sometimes you just gotta take what you can get.

I think I really need to sum it up in a few words…and if you see the track profile it will give you a understanding on this…basically its a 22km walk which varies from f-ing hard downhill, to f-ing hard uphill walking and not much in between, couple this with one very fundamental ball tearer.. once you get to the top of this plateau its still not flat or a very easy walk, in fact its more up and down with shrub that seems to be out to catch you at every turn. To top that off I was cycling thru bush patches filled with cicadas which makes you feel your entering to some kind of torture chamber !