After completing the Overland Track, our team need to get down to the Port Davey Track, which they link together through a multisport series of adventures. Road cycling and mountain biking, they make their way from Lake St Clair to Lake Pedder, including some historic Tasmanian towns along the way. From the highlands and the lakes to the Hydro-founded town of Wayatinah, they will head into the forests of the Florentine Valley to the now-abandoned mining town of Adamsfield. The old buildings there are testament to the osmiridium boom from the 1920s until the 1960s, when Tasmania was the world’s largest exporter of the alloy used to make the nibs of fountain pens. At Lake Pedder the TRA members will be swapping to kayaks, paddling the impoundment over a few days, until they get to the Huon Campground at Scotts Peak Dam, and walking boots are donned again for the remainder of the Ranger Relay.
Map by Phil Wyatt. Photo of Lake Pedder by Jessica Hewenn, photo of Adamsfield from PWS.
The Ranger Relay will have just finished the Overland Track.
They will then walk onto the Port Davey Track.
