WalkGPS

NEW on WalkGPS!! 🗺 🗺 🗺
More options for GPS navigation for WalkGPS subscribers:
For all 100+ popular adventurous walk routes:
🗺 GARMIN CUSTOM MAPS for handheld GPS units.
Save WalkGPS walk area base maps onto your Garmin GPS device.
🗺 QFIELD APP PACKAGES for iPhone (iOS) and Android smartphone.
Import WalkGPS custom maps, waypoints and ‘tracks’ into app at zero cost!
A quirky new alternative to more widely known apps like Avenza Maps, Gaia GPS, and All Trails.
🗺 For more info, see: https://shorturl.at/iq34F

Roly Pool Walk - a very short but delightful wander to get the new knee working. Spot the '(?)Old Man in the Rock' - an eye-catching feature in dolerite rock along a well-trodden side-trail beyond Rocky Pool on north side of Canning River.
Trails WA Group

Electronics for multiday hiking (Part 1 from 'Slower Hiking' blog)
- some good advice on safety, navign & communication aspects.
https://shorturl.at/JkGxr
For those who use a smartphone for hiking (and/or trail running) navigation it's also worth considering a phone harness or chest mount for weather- and shock-proofing, plus hands-free access.
Thanks to Perth Bushwalkers Club for the heads-up re the post.
https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1D9ESJiM3K/

Trails WA Group HikeWest

Electronics for Multiday Hiking: What You Need to Know — Slower Hiking Today’s lightweight, robust and portable electronic devices have completely transformed backpacking, making it so much more accessible and convenient for us all. But Phones, PLBs, GPSes and Satellite Messengers are different tools with different strengths and weaknesses. Here is what you need to k...

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https://shorturl.at/4byzr
A graphic presentation courtesy of a Jarrahdale Forest Protectors Inc member - highlights why mining of our jarrah forest is so obviously unsustainable and why efforts at 'rehabilitation' are doomed to certain failure, contrary to Alcoa's longstanding, but specious claims.

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WA’s 3 most famous point-to-point walks are now on WalkGPS:
🥾🥾Bibbulmun Track https://shorturl.at/T90oO
🥾🥾Cape To Cape Track https://shorturl.at/urafB
🥾🥾Stirling Ridge Walk https://shorturl.at/GhUc9
- downloadable GPX and KML files ('tracks' plus includes campsite locns as waypts for the Bibb. and C.toC. and waypts for Stirling Ridge Walk).
- detailed route info and advice not included (see 'Other info.' tab on walk pages for plentifully available info elsewhere online and in print).😊

Action for the jarrah forest:
Deadline tomorrow Wednesday, 17 June 2026 for public to object to Environment Minister re latest proposal on mining;
State Government proposes new exemption to enable Alcoa to continue mining operations in the Northern Jarrah Forest, including within drinking water Reservoir Protection Zones, with minimal constraints - while EPA is still assessing the impact of Alcoa’s current operations and despite suspected breaches of an existing exemption order in recent months.
Info. below on the issue and how to urgently object.
Also: https://endforestmining.org.au/alcoa-exemption/
Govt. statement: https://shorturl.at/Eh8JG