Author Archives: Tim & Sarah

So in our 20 day hike of the Larapinta trail day 10 would mean that we are somewhere around the halfway point and certainly double the length of our previous longest hike but still a long way to go roughly about 100km. Last night was the coldest yet and while we both managed to getContinue reading “Day 10 Ellery Creek North to Bushcamp”

We had a relatively good nights sleep last night albeit a very chilly one. I am very fortunate that I have Tim radiating body heat and that he is willing to share it across our slim air mattresses or else I would be cold. We had hoped that the sun would hit our tent beforeContinue reading “Day 9 Serpentine Gorge to Ellery Creek North”

Waking up this morning was hard. It was bitterly cold and everything was still a little damp not a good combination at all. The good thing was that the clouds had disappeared to reveal a beautiful blue sky but the sun was yet to crest the top of the valley so we packed up inContinue reading “Day 8 Serpentine Chalet Dam to Serpentine Gorge”

I am writing this blog laying back snug as a bug in my sleeping bag and can say that today was tough. We had expected to wake up to the weather clearing but unfortunately woke to rain on the tent and single figure temps. When I stuck my head out of the tent the cloudContinue reading “Day 7 Waterfall Gorge to Serpentine Chalet Dam”

We awoke on day 6 at about 6am having had an interrupted sleep due to a fairly heavy downpour during the night. Although we trusted our new super duper tent it’s always a little daunting the first night relying on it to keep you dry but it did so next time we will definitely sleepContinue reading “Day 6 Ormiston to Waterfall Gorge”

After our should we/shouldn’t we stay decision yesterday we were very happy we made the call to stay when we woke up and didn’t have to pack up our tent. After a leisurley cup of tea we headed out for the pound walk. We still had our packs on but had stripped out all ourContinue reading “Day 5 Ormiston Pound Walk”

It was another cold morning when we awoke at Finke river but the sun was soon on us and we started warming up and even though we were still last to leave we had a system worked out whereby if we wanted to hurry we could. Instead we got packed up and then promptly satContinue reading “Day 4 Finke River to Ormiston Gorge”

After a pretty chilly night we woke up nice and early determined to make an earlier start than yesterday. We did a little body check and other than a few little blisters we were doing okay. Yesterday’s hike was tougher than I expected and I came into camp with pretty sore feet so was gladContinue reading “Day 3 Rocky Bar to Finke River”

Sleep was easy last night after our late night hike but we were briefly awoken by the other half of the campground who were setting off at 3am to summit Mt Sonder and enjoy the sunrise. We were quickly back asleep and snuggled in our sleeping bags with all of our clothes on as theContinue reading “Day 2 Redbank Gorge to Rocky Bar”

We were waiting for our pick up from 7.30am and were a little alarmed at how cold it was. Turns out it got down below zero during the night so luckily we had packed our thermals! We passed the time waiting for the bus talking to another guest who was also doing the Laripinta thoughContinue reading “Day 1 Redbank Gorge to Mt Sonder”