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Australian Hiker is Australia’s premier hiking podcast as well as providing a southern hemisphere view on overseas hiking. We are Australia’s most downloaded hiking podcast with regular epis...

This podcast episode contains a series of recordings on my Great south West Walk starting from my return the tail after my rest day In Nelso...

This podcast episode contains a series of recordings starting from my travel day prior to my trip to the end of week 1. For the first two da...

As this podcast goes to air I am just a few days out from starting my journey on the Great South West Walk in southwest Victoria. In this ep...

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