Category: Recent updates

The following pages have been added:

Acknowledgement of Country

Emergencies:

• First aid

The elements:

• Understanding the weather 
• Thunderstorms

Gear, food and water:

• Safe drinking water
• Water treatment options

Equipment and clothing:

• Knots

“Breadcrumb links” are now also provided on each page top left under the menu.  You can navigate back through site content by clicking on these links.

The following pages have been added:

• Minimal impact bushwalking and skiing
• Wind, rain and snow

Bushfire pages:

• Plan to avoid bushfire – don’t be there
• Be vigilant – get to a safe location
• Last resort – surviving a bushfire

The following pages have been added to the Trip planning section:

• • Extreme weather events and natural disasters
  • Fuel reduction burns

The following page has been added to the Leadership section:

• • Bushwalking Leadership Training

The following pages have been added to the Queensland section:

• • Wet tropics great walk
  • Thorsborne Trail

 

The following pages have been added:

• Leadership overview
• Checklists for bushwalking and ski touring leaders

The following pages have been added:

• Tasmania
• South Australia
• Northern Territory
• ACT information added to New South Wales page

The following pages have been added:

• Queensland
• New South Wales
• Western Australia
• South Australia

Continue reading “Ski touring page added”

The following pages have been added:

• Keeping the group together
• If you are lost
• Group member lost

This Bushwalking Manual is now online at www.bushwalkingmanual.org.au

Work on additional content is continuing.