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CONTENTS ISSUE #187 AUTUMN 2023
112 You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know
Reconsidering Canyoning Ethics
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Photo Essay: Chasing the Mountain Light
64 Thank You, Sarek REGULARS
Readers’ Letters 14 Editor’s Letter 18 Gallery 22 Columns 30 Getting Started: A Home Climbing Gym 46 WILD Shot 146
CONSERVATION
Green Pages 36 Welcome to the Pyrocene 40
Search and Rescue is a service we hope we never need. Caro Ryan, who has worked for two decades as a land search volunteer, gives us a fictional account of how a search effort might typically unfold.
NONE OF THE ABOVE
Opinion: Going Solo 42 Q+A with Hilary McAllister 44
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FEATURES
Profile: Outback Mike 50 Walking Tassie’s Frankland Range 56 Ski Touring in Northern Sweden 64 Anatomy of a Search 74 Tasmanian Wilderness WHA 40th B’day 82 Photo Essay: Chasing the Mountain Light 90 Walking the Razor-Viking Circuit 98 Packrafting the Lagoon River 106 Reconsidering Canyoning Ethics 112
The Tasmanian WHA Turns 40
Four decades ago, UNESCO declared Tasmania’s Southwest to be an area of global significance. Geoff Law looks at the history leading up to the declaration, and at the fights since then to further protect this stunning area.
122 Destination: USA’s Sierras
WILD BUNCH
WA’s Coral Coast 120
DESTINATION
Hiking in California’s Sierra Mountains 122
of the fabulous hiking opportunities
TRACK NOTES
NSW’s Colo River Gorge 130
outlines a new route he’s conceived
GEAR
Talk and Tests 136 Support Our Supporters 140
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74 Anatomy of a Search
WILD
John Chapman gives an overview in California’s Sierra Nevada, and
of through these fabulous mountains: The Sierra Grand Traverse.
