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Grampians Peak Trail Master Plan 29-May-2014 At 9:06:37 AM kieranl

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On 28/05/2014 patto wrote:
>Most of the great walking tracks have grown organically. Once numbers
>increase then extra track work and facilities are both necessary and supported
>by the numbers. Trying to manufacture a track and demand for it is a difficult
>process. All that said they DID manage to manufacture The Great Ocean
>Walk but that was already a very popular tourist destination.
The problem with doing a long walk in the Grampians has always been linking the key bits. The Stapylton, Mt Difficult, Wonderland, Rosea and Mt William sections have all grown organically but the current link options aren't good. These require either a lot of time on 4wd or 2wd tracks or bashing through unpleasant scrub. It's one thing to bash a route to an attractive destination, quite another to bash for hours to link 2 points when there are easy alternatives.
Quite a lot of people already do the trip from Stapylton to Halls Gap but there's a lot of boring road-walking between the interesting bits. A carefully routed walking track could make it a much more memorable trip. Now, with the bush burnt out, is actually the time to work on this section.