4 Days on one of Australia's TOUGHEST Mountain Hikes as a Traditional Swagman 

Yeah it is important. I know there are some hikers who would not even have a fire up there because of their concern (which is understanable) ... but I gather if sticking to an existing fire place (so I don't create another fire scar) and only using dead wood that is not hollow (to not disturb habitat) it should be ok. But you are right, it's important to care for the place.

Thanks for the comment mate. Well done as well, that is not an easy thing to do, more power to you mate, and really stoked to here the outdoors has been a way to help you turn your life around! Get out there and enjoy it mate ..

@@TheBeardedBushranger no worries at all brother :) glad I can across your channel!

Thanks for watching. That's pretty special you got to do it 20 years ago, and also on remembrance day. Something about doing these hikes on those special days that gives you perspective.

That honestly sounds like a great experience for a year 9 student! Way to invest in a whole different range of skill sets for them. Thanks for watching.

That’s amazing thanks. Don’t listen to women mate, coz they REALLY don’t make the right decisions brother.

Yeah I've since had more info on the school and I love the idea of what they try and install into young fellas.

Thank you for encouragment! I love hearing comments like this as always motives me to continue creating! Thank you.

Thanks for watching!

Thanks for watching the vid!

Great to hear you loved it! Plenty of vids like this to come throughout the year.

Oh cheers mate, yeah that makes total sense .. was fun reading the little notes they left in the bottle

Thanks for that. Mattsy really is a legend and great fun to hike / camp with. And I agge the colors of the high country really are great.

It's even more epic in the winter when covered in snow. Hopefully I'll get out there this winter. Thanks for watching

Thank you so much for watching and your comment. It really was a great challenge this walk.

Thanks for that comment damien. Really appreciate it.

Sounds like a good way to spend your lunch break 😆 thanks for watching

Yeah, we had it pretty warm on most nights for April as it only got down to around 2.c or so. Thanks for giving it a watch!

Cheers mate! Yup, minus the nice down sleeping bag in it haha I'm yet to be game enough to go up into altitude with just my woolen blankets.

And cheers to you for watching it.

Yeah Mattsy has that unique ability to just make every situation seem like a laugh.

Cheers, thank you for watching.

Awesome mate, thanks so much for watching the vids. Scotty and Mattsy have been great inspirations are just genuinly top blokes.

And thank you for watching!!

Sure is mate.

I love that I have people from other countries able to enjoy our Australian wilderness through my videos! Thanks for watching.

Thanks for watching!

Good to hear mate! Get out there!

Glad you enjoyed the video mate. It was a cracker to just get stuck into.

Cheers mate! Hope your enjoying your travels

Cheers mate! Was good fun doing this with Mattsy

Thanks for watching! I would of loved Scotty to have come!

Honestly we were really buggered at the end of this hike. The last 3 hours was hell, I couldn't even whip up the energy to film most of it haha Thanks for watching.

Cheers thanks for watching.

Yeah especially when you get out to all the old huts. Thanks for watching.

Thanks Glenn! It really is a beautiful spot.

Cheers mate!

Cheers thanks for watching.

Enjoy your rest

Thank you very much for watching!

Yeah one of the best in the state! Thanks for watching.

We sure do, and so much of it we can get to ourselves when we head out bush.

Thanks for watching

Cheers mate. I'll be trying to upload once a week (or once every 2 weeks) this year.

Honestly upload at your own pace Luke

Yeah the cross cut is one of the best walks to do! Thanks for watching.

Thanks heaps for watching @Fiona_Chasing_Light .. it was a bloody ripper of a adventure!

Thanks for watching Michelle fro Horse Creek Queensland!

Cheers mate, thanks for watching .. it's a longer vid as well so I'm glad people have enjoyed it.

And thank you for watching!

Thanks mate.

Cheers mate! Yeah slightly different content from lukes little tribe, but made sense to seperate the two different types of content! Thanks for watching.

Cheers mate thanks for watching. Mattsy is a great person to adventure with .. always remains positive no matter the going. Vic High country is well known for all it's 4wd content, but it's also an amazing place for wild camping and hiking.

Cheers thanks mate. I have plenty more content coming out this year.

Cheers mate, thanks for watching and coming along. Plenty of content I'm going to be pumping out this year.

Yeah definantly the best campspot we had on the whole trip. Thanks for watching herb.

haha yeah it's only been going for less then 2 months. Thanks for watching.

Cheers, thanks heaps for subscribing and watching the vid. Mattsy is such a legend it's been great to do trips with him.

Cheers mate, great to see some international audiences watching the vids. North East Georgia is a long was from Southern Australia!

He is such a character to go out camping with! Did you watch his latest shipwrecked video .. the man is fulls of laughs 😂

@@TheBeardedBushranger Yes enjoyed it thoroughly. Please keep making more. As a 68 year old who still tries to get out there and do some bushwalking , you two blokes make my day and I appreciate the time you put into making great videos.

@@waynemcmillan5970 I really appreciate hearing that, and it's great to know our videos can give you a little taste of that joy of getting out bush

Thanks for joining, plenty of content to come

Getting hypothermia is the real deal! It really can get bloody cold up there! Thanks heaps for watching.

haha I said on this trip that maybe I should of dressed like an old viking to suit the name. The high country really is a great place for freedom.

The water bag was the worst thing on the first day (about 5kg) so much wieght pulling me down. On the 3rd day, working out to tie the water bag to my swag, and instead use a stick to support my wieght .. really helped.

Mate thanks heaps for that comment. That's really encouraging and having people enjoy the vids just has me pumped to continue making them.

haha yeah we did two trips back to back and decided for the audience sake to mix it up and post the different adventures at the same time. In a week or so he will post his version of this trip and I'll post the shipwrecked one. Thanks for watching

Thanks for watching! was a good mission and even better being able to do it with Mattsy

Cheers mate.

Yeah interesting that .. I guess mountains tend to look the same world over when you get out of the tree line and into the alpine grass areas. haha you would have a bloody hard time riding that ridge line .. But there are plenty of other awesome bike tracks in the Vicco high country.

Such great country mate, pretty keen to explore more of it in the winter though! Thanks for watching.

Cheers mate thanks for watching. Yeah it's been great doing a couple adventures with Mattsy, and I do love the old history to areas as well.

Thanks so much for watching!! I think that piece of music is called Elm Lake .. I found it on the site epidemic sound!

Appreciate the response. Subscribed. Cheers

Great to hear the channel is getting out there then! Thanks for watching mate.

Thanks so much for appreciating mate. It's exactly what I was trying to do since I wanted it pretty fast paced at the start.

Absolutely well done on doing the AAWT, that would of been such an amazing experience! What was your favourite section?

@@TheBeardedBushrangergosh it was all amazing and so different to Qld. But I loved Tharwa to Kosci as there was still snow and I hadn’t seen snow for over 30 years. My fav camp was Mt speculation as we stayed right at the top.

Awesome, the first night on this camp was on top of mt spec as well ... truely an amazing campspot.

Thanks for watching! I was blown away by the viking

I have travelled much of Australia but it never ceases to amaze me the beauty is still holds that i have yet to see. ❤

Such a beautiful place isn't it.

@@TheBeardedBushranger Absolutely :)

Yeah great to know, found it really interesting to learn that. I will say the viking circuit is one of the hardest 'established' hikes. I'm sure you could find much harder walks, that are not established. But it was great to give this one a go.

Such a beautiful place mate. Thanks for watching .. shoulders still a bit bunged up from the swag 😆

Cheers thanks heaps! Doubt we would of been able to get a kayak up there though 😄

@@TheBeardedBushranger lol , the right tool for the right job . Only Noah would have taken a kayak up there . but why would he ? Anyone who carries an oilskin carries a potential kayak anyway . in a way you did carry a kayak up there

@%98%86hannel/UCMTER3PF1TnyeCZCuiEeB5w haha for sure .. I saw what Outback mike did with that tarp on Australia Alone season 1

Cheers mate! Thanks for watching and subscribing. Was that his most recent one you mean? I've done a few collabs with him over the years, but that was filmed on my other channel Lukes Little Tribe .. this one is a new one just focussing on the Australian swagman stuff.

haha cheers mate .. it's been a hell of a ride making friends with mattsy and going on these crazy adventures.

One of the best!

It was bloody icey though haha

haha I've kind of pigeon holed myself into this type of adventuring now. I swear I have the worst knots in my shoulder now from this trip. I'll probs be all buggered by the time I hit 50 because of it.

Well I do have some good news for you as a guy who has turned 50, when it comes to adventure we don’t get any more sensible about it or learn to slow down. Maybe at 70…. Maybe

Sounds like a ripper of a time. Great place to explore and so much out there.

Cheers mate.

Haha chers mate ... you mean the Sambar deer, the wild dogs, the black panthers or the Bunyips? 😆

Haha yeah he's adventuring ways are pretty contagious!

Thanks mate. Wish I had done stuff like that when I went to school haha

@TheBeardedBushranger so did I but we spent our teens growing up in the bush. Schooling ourselves. 👍🐕🤠

@@mickwatson2177 Best way to grow up. Yeah I can't remember anything like at school .. but I was too busy down the beach surfing and exploring the coastline to worry about it to much.

Oh cheers mate, thanks for watching. Stay tuned cause I'm coming up to these areas multiple times (hopefully) this winter in the snow.

@@TheBeardedBushranger yeah, cool. Just watched the one Mattsy posted along the coast, you've been busy!

New video this Sunday!

Thanks for watching mate. Yeah it's been a journey over the last few years, learning more about the old fellas and old fear. I have another swagman trip I did in the mallee scrub last year that tried to go back to the oldways even more (only woolen blankets etc) I reckon I do need to get my hands on some old era clothing now though. I just love the fact that they got by out bush with that type of gear .. and the more trips I do, the more comfortable you start feeling with the older gear. I'm looking forward to the sheep skin bedroll and sleeping out in that in the winter. Also I love hans zimmer music!!

@@TheBeardedBushranger what got me started was seeing a live slide presentation at a NZ mountaineering club, by some old timers who walked across Iceland in the 1950s. We're talking, women in skirts, men in breaches, canvas packs and tents, cans.. 10 days unsupported, wilderness! 10 days is about how far punters can go with modern gear. They showed their gear, and I was fascinated. Real forgotten innovations, like fuel in the frame of the pack for example!! Multifunctional is key for us using heavy duty gear. The fur trapper history in Alaska has a lot of living historians recreating. We don't seem to have many in Australia for late 19th C.. except those on horse perhaps. Definitely the techniques from other cultures would've been very useful to Australians in that time, had they have had the exposure and willingness to appreciate. Chinese history in Australia at that time was huge too. Taking things from that line of heritage is worth considering too. There's so many interesting angles to take in this way of appreciating.

@@Peakoilcompany That would of been so inspiring! There really is so many ways to appreciate the culture. I have so many old history books in my library as well of our unique history, so I do love sharing some of those stories.

That 1 of 2000 swagmans hankys that happened on that trip.