7 Day Wilderness Trek with Kids

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I climb the 10 highest peaks in Australia with my two teenagers on a 7 day unsupported trek along the spine of the Snowy Mountains, the highest and largest Alpine wilderness area in the country.
Australia’s 10 Highest Peaks (www.k7adventures.com/climb-au...)
1. Mt Kosciuszko, 2228m
2. Mt Townsend, 2209m
3. Mt Twynam, 2195 m
4. Rams Head, 2190m
5. Etheridge Ridge Peak, 2180m
6. Rams Head North, 2177m
7. Alice Rawson, 2160m
8. Abbot Peak, 2159m
9. Abbot Peak East, 2145m
10. Carruthers Peak, 2145m
Food list (this is a no frills list!)
Breakfast
30 x instant porridge packets (2 for me an 1.5 each for the kids each morning)
Lunch
Day 1 - Sandwich in the car
Day 2 - Tuna, cheese (slices in plastic wrapping) and wraps
Day 3 - Two minute noodles (5 packets: that's 2 for me & 1.5 for the kids)
Day 4 - Two minute noodles (5 packets)
Day 5 - Cruskets (large plain biscuit crackers) and cheese
Day 6 - Two minute noodles (5 packets)
Day 7 - A pie in Jindy (Jindabyne)
Dinner
Day 1 - Frankfurts, wraps and Sauce in a tube, plus 3 jelly cups for dessert
Day 2 - Refrigerated ravioli pasta with sauce. Biscuits for dessert every night after that
Day 3 - Chicken curry (wet soft pack and 1.5 cups of rice)
Day 4 - Pasta and Sauce (2 packets)
Day 5 - Pasta and Sauce (2 packets)
Day 6 - Pasta and Sauce (2 packets)
Day 7 - Back home dinner
Snacks
-2 x chocolate bars each per person per day
-1 bag of dried apple (shared on day 2)
-3 x bags dried kangaroo meat (100g pack)
-1 pack of dried seaweed per day (shared)
Drinks
-We drank unfiltered, unboiled water from creeks and puddles. I’ve never been sick doing this and I’ve done it on every continent on earth. Just use common sense about what’s upstream
-Hot Drinks: Hot chocolate, milk powder, sugar, tea bags
-Cold drinks: the kids took a sachet of powdered Lipton iced tea for each day.
Moth Tracker
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If you liked this video I'd recommend watching the 4 day solo survival challenge did recently in the Idaho wilderness: • 4 Days Alone in Idaho ...
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@Lukeslittletribe 5 месяцев назад

As a dad who loves getting his kids hiking, this was one of my favourite vids of yours. Well done on your kids, what a great job they did ... especially following you through that hectic bush bash!

@OutbackMike 5 месяцев назад

Thanks Luke!

@onislandtime7 5 месяцев назад

Great adventure with the kids thanks for sharing. Brought back memories from a walk I did in January 1998 - we had a real white out… walked through a blizzard and woke up the next morning to a blanket of snow over everything - in summer!

@OutbackMike 5 месяцев назад

Nice. I’ve had the odd summer snow dump too.

@AngusBeath 5 месяцев назад

Great video and hats off to the kids for pushing through. Really awesome stuff - inspires me to get out amongst it. Keep up the great content Mike!

@OutbackMike 5 месяцев назад

Thanks Angus!

@LotsaFreshAir 4 месяца назад

Great stuff Mike. These are the things that stay with us for life... hopefully the laughter of the itchy-bomb fights are up there with what they learnt about their capabilities and inner strength when things were shitty.

@OutbackMike 4 месяца назад

Thanks Caro!

@bigskyadventures 5 месяцев назад

Hi Mike, what a beautifully filmed & inspiring video. Shane and I took the same route as you from Grey Mare to Valentines the year before we started making videos, so we know how tough that section is...& we were most impressed with Tom & Zara for sticking it out. We did some of the huts you featured near Round Mountain last year so was very enjoyable to see some familiar landscapes from a different perspective. Looking forward to more of your adventures 🙂 Regards Sonia

@OutbackMike 5 месяцев назад

Thanks Sonia. Glad you enjoyed it. Yeah it’s cool seeing such a big waterfall high up in the Snowy’s like that too.

@antonreyment8945 4 месяца назад

Thanks for taking us with you.

@OutbackMike 4 месяца назад

My pleasure. Thanks for watching.

@darren676767 5 месяцев назад

wow, this is one of the best videos I've seen in a while. What a real adventure. Your kids are champions. Well done.

@OutbackMike 5 месяцев назад

Thanks so much Darren!

@Neile-13579 5 месяцев назад

Great adventure Mike. Hats off to the youngun's specially for following Dad up the untracked spur. Character building stuff as they say 😉

@OutbackMike 5 месяцев назад

Thanks. There was few dummy spits😂 Not just from the kids.

@Dave_Gw 5 месяцев назад

What a fantastic video Mike. A perfect balance of personal and family adventure, bushwalking tips, history and politics. Keep up the stellar work mate! How stoic were your kids during your short cut! Haha. Pretty jarring end to the wilderness at Thredbo!

@OutbackMike 5 месяцев назад

Thanks heaps Dave. Yeah that short cut was a struggle.

@darrenwilliams9001 5 месяцев назад

11mins in is a stamp mill used for crushing ore to extract gold, the piston looking things are what crushes the ore driven by the cam looking thing. Theres a lot of them scattered around Vic. Very basic description n there would be lots of prospectors laughing at me now lol. Love your vids mate keep up the great work.

@OutbackMike 5 месяцев назад

Thanks. Yeah, my brother in law reckons that too.

@Stumpasm123 5 месяцев назад

great activity for the kids, they're lucky to have a dad like you

@OutbackMike 5 месяцев назад

Thanks. It was hard work for them but they think they’re glad they did it.

@MrGaza74 3 месяца назад

Bidgee Widgey!! Classic bushwalking prank material because you can’t feel them hit you when your friend throws them at you. But when they start giggling from out of nowhere you get suspicious. The Marchies have been brutal the last couple of years. I try not to complain because we need all the insects we can get. Great video. I would like to see a kids edit!

@OutbackMike 3 месяца назад

Thanks! Yeah those things suck.

@vfxsoup 5 месяцев назад

This was excellent! You should hit 100k soon and it will be much deserved.

@OutbackMike 5 месяцев назад

Thanks 🙏

@tonyi7735 5 месяцев назад

What a trip for you all, thanks for sharing. My girls love looking at pics of adventures we've done together over the years, special memories. It's definitely put that part of the country on my bucket list.

@OutbackMike 5 месяцев назад

No worries. You’re welcome.

@grainybrews 5 месяцев назад

Amazing video Mike. I always come away learning something new from your videos, but they never fail to entertain. Very cool that your kids can experience your adventures with you too!

@OutbackMike 5 месяцев назад

Thanks heaps. Glad you like them.

@Ado_Bielo 5 месяцев назад

Another great adventure, Mike! Thanks for the entertainment and ongoing educational moments.

@OutbackMike 5 месяцев назад

Thanks Bug!

@SamClarkPhotographerAdventurer 3 месяца назад

What an awesome hike and great effort by your kids!

@OutbackMike 3 месяца назад

Thanks Sam🙏

@Staroy 15 дней назад

Well done! Would advice bringing some more protein dense food on your next hike though, especially for your kids that are growing still

@lastknownlocation8760 5 месяцев назад

That was fantastic Mike. Your kids are absolutely amazing!! Respect!!!

@OutbackMike 5 месяцев назад

Thank you🙂

@user-cb6yt6ed7q 5 месяцев назад

Great video, gotta love the dodgy shortcut straight through contour lines

@OutbackMike 5 месяцев назад

Haha. Yeah. It was worth it for the kids experience.

@taniabanek350 5 месяцев назад

That was fantastic! Well done to the kids!!! I would’ve been terrified of the snakes 🐍

@OutbackMike 5 месяцев назад

Thanks. Yeah that’s one of the most snakey spots I’ve seen😂

@PerspectiveAustralia 5 месяцев назад

Such a great adventure with your kids. Love their resilience ❤. That was the most march flies I’ve ever seen in one spot!

@OutbackMike 5 месяцев назад

Yeah I’ve never seen them that bad before either.

@BeingLiving 5 месяцев назад

Awesome man! Love your work !!

@OutbackMike 5 месяцев назад

Thank you! Cheers!

@twrapps121 5 месяцев назад

Inspiring stuff. Loved it.

@OutbackMike 5 месяцев назад

Awesome, thank you!

@williambremner862 5 месяцев назад

Great video Mike. Very informative.

@OutbackMike 5 месяцев назад

Thanks 👍

@peterlee543 5 месяцев назад

Loved this video. Thanks for going to all the effort to make these things. I love the vids with a story in them.

@OutbackMike 5 месяцев назад

Thanks Peter. Glad you enjoyed it!

@peterstone5356 5 месяцев назад

Great vid mate, you have some seriously good kids there. I remember from a trip to Valentines Hut from Guthega around the early 1990's the toilet had the best view in Australia

@OutbackMike 5 месяцев назад

Thanks 👍 Yeah. It looks a lot sadder now than back before the fires unfortunately.

@AaronGrayOutdoors 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for sharing Mike. I appreciate the explanation of the winds on the synoptic chart.

@OutbackMike 5 месяцев назад

Thanks Aaron. Glad you liked it. I wasn’t sure how much people are interested so it’s good to get feedback.

@vickizacharia 5 месяцев назад

Awesome video Mike!! What a wonderful thing to do with the kids. They were troopers. Well done all 👏 Thanks for all of the extra info along the way too 😊

@OutbackMike 5 месяцев назад

Thanks Vicki. Glad you enjoyed it😀

@robynmclennan9613 5 месяцев назад

Great video... I was up there a couple of years ago. Those footprints you saw, I don't think they are deer but wild pigs. I saw one of them, it was massive. That's what has been digging up everything.

@OutbackMike 5 месяцев назад

Thanks. I didn’t see any pig diggings which is why I went with deer. Is there a handy give away for pig prints vs deer?

@robynmclennan9613 5 месяцев назад

@@OutbackMike I'm no expert there. We were following the old AWT route and saw football fields worth of pig diggings on the other side of O'Keefe's Hut

@seanalexander9531 5 месяцев назад

"Complain to the Human Rights Commission" 😂 Geez Thredders looks very different out of snow season! What a great family trek - thanks for sharing, Mike!

@OutbackMike 5 месяцев назад

Thanks Sean. Yeah. It was full of mountain bikers. All the chairlift seats had bike racks.

@seanalexander9531 5 месяцев назад

@@OutbackMikesomething that I've committed to not doing. I'm a pretty proficient skier and boarder but I'm pretty sure I'd end up dead against a tree on a bike 🤨😂

@stephenravenscroft3636 5 месяцев назад

Nice to see a demonstration of that underrated dad skill... putting a passable plait or ponytail in your daughters hair.

@OutbackMike 5 месяцев назад

Ha. Working on the French braid at the moment🤣 I’m slowly getting better but I’ve got a long way to go.

@TarmanTheChampion 2 месяца назад

Great video! Im confused why im just now coming across your channel!? Totally subscribing and looking forward to your next adventures\videos!

@OutbackMike 2 месяца назад

Awesome! Thank you!

@eddieintheoutdoors 5 месяцев назад

I’m in awe! There is no chance my kids would do a trip like this with me!! Awesome stuff!

@OutbackMike 5 месяцев назад

🙏 thank you.

@tsi4service 5 месяцев назад

Hey Mike , i saw how thick that under/over growth is near the waterfall. Thats what the ascent to Mt Jagungal was like, i went up at 6am in the morning and figured the snakes would be asleep somewhere else 🤞

@OutbackMike 5 месяцев назад

Is that you Shane. From the hut?

@tsi4service 5 месяцев назад

@@OutbackMike sorry, Bill from Mt Townsend. I was knackered that night and missed the bogong moths

@nickboyes62 4 месяца назад

I ❤ MEETING YOU IN PERSON AT WORDS OUT WEST. #1 FAN

@OutbackMike 4 месяца назад

Thanks Nick! Great to meet you too.

@gggvgg4302 5 месяцев назад

Great hike Mike. Well done. Very jealous. Bardzo dobry on the spelling.

@OutbackMike 5 месяцев назад

Thanks 👍

@dunco7038 5 месяцев назад

Top video.

@OutbackMike 5 месяцев назад

Thanks!

@NH-jm9fq 5 месяцев назад

The lamenting of the dead trees and images of damaged alpine forest landscape at 8:23 are not caused by fire but by infestation of Longicorn beetles. The trees would be black and charred if it was fire related.

@Bucket183 5 месяцев назад

Great video. About to do the 15 peaks so it was good to see. Any chance on some short videos on the equipment and food you took. Great job!!!

@OutbackMike 5 месяцев назад

Thanks. There’s a food list in the video description.

@rjohnson4553 5 месяцев назад

Your kids NEED to do Outward Bound, like this year!!!! 15tr olds is best for, It’s the best thing! all kids do actually! My daughter did Outward Bound 3 times out of Tharwa ACT, (sponsored which was a godsend cause I couldn’t finance it at the time as a solo dad) which was a bit like your “off track disaster” camping under a “bivvy” she go pro-ed her adventure and it was awesome to see it, basically they stomped it off track, and on, under a hutchie that sleeps 3 (I’m ex para) all had to spend 24hrs as team leader/navigator with one other kid, supervised by staff the whole way. She spent 24hrs solo at one point twice on the navigator program (supervised but solo, makes sense when they explain it, a really good thing for the kids) but she’s so much better for it and yearns to do hiking for the rest of their life. She ended up being captain of the school and now a 20yr old home owner. My son missed the lot because of the COVID thing 😔🤷🏻 but he’ll be a tradie before 21 and learnt lots vicariously through her journey and our family treks. I first took my 2 on a 4 day hike at 6 and 8. As a dad chasing down 50 faster than I hoped we all did Frenchman’s in Tassie Jan 23 when they were 17 and 19 a life dream I had I did with them and they loved it! You will reap the rewards of this in years to come, great work! Better than being a fighter pilot!!

@OutbackMike 5 месяцев назад

Thanks. Yeah I should look that up for them.

@rjohnson4553 5 месяцев назад

@@OutbackMike This is it, not the most polished video production but not too bad for a first go as a teenager. There’s more footage and supposed to be more promotional stuff but COVID got in the way and then it ended up being sort of lost in life. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yswhdBoJGwo.htmlfeature=shared

@rjohnson4553 5 месяцев назад

@@OutbackMike And if your devoid of anything to do check out some of the other vids on her channel, not to boost numbers just to show what can be done in 2 years of school life, she packed heaps in and it payed dividends to her development.

@Lukeslittletribe 5 месяцев назад

Also I totally understand how frustrating the drone laws can be. I have my RePL drone license, but here in Victoria our drone laws are even far stricter then in NSW. Here you are not allowed to fly in any national parks, but also state forests, reserves etc To do so you need an advanced ReOC licsnse, and need to submit an application (with a huge fee) just to be able to request to fly in these areas. After doign the course, I totally understand the need for drone regulations in built up areas and where there is air traffic, for safety issues ... but out in remote areas is a bit annoying. Parks and Wildlife have also been known to search over social media to see if people are disobeying the rules .. I always notice a lot of the 4wd channels still fly their drones in the Vicco high country and I doubt they are doing it legally. It's quite a big fine if getting busted. I have often gotten around the laws (a bit of a loop hole) by going right to the edge of where a national park starts, and taking off my drone from crown land ... face the drone towards the park and get some footage, then land in crown land. This way I'm not breaking any laws.

@OutbackMike 5 месяцев назад

Yeah. It’s frustrating. Particularly when the example is set in Queensland National Parks and they’re not having any issues. It is a fact that National Parks don’t control airspace and nor should they (I’ve operate in most nooks and crannies if Australian airspace for 20+ years as a military and civilian pilot, so I understand airspace rules). Airspace is CASA’s responsibility and parks have enough policing to do as it is without trying to police what they don’t own. In the end parks only restrict law abiding respectful drone flyers anyway. As you said, rule breakers are flying anyway. You can’t legislate against non-compliance.

@budget-adventure 5 месяцев назад

Man when most take thier kids camping they drive to a spot and probably don’t walk more then a few meters. Great to see the kids out hiking. Yeah drone laws suck, but it’s the same with hut laws as well, in vic you can’t sleep in them unless it’s an emergency situation, but most ignore that. Also thanks on the celestial navigation, great tip to know. Would love a video on how you make a GoPro film a night sky like that.

@OutbackMike 5 месяцев назад

Thanks. I use Gopro Night Lapse mode with 1600ISO and 30sec exposure.

@budget-adventure 5 месяцев назад

@@OutbackMike thanks I caught the 30 second exposure in the video, just wanted to put all the pieces together. Thanks for sharing the trip man

@VINTERIUM..EXPLORIUM.1 5 месяцев назад

👍👍👍

@Bucket183 5 месяцев назад

Did you apply to Nat Parks for a drone permit? I was going to ask Nat Parks if I can use my Mini on my trip

@OutbackMike 5 месяцев назад

No. I will try in future though. From what I understand it’s admin intensive and costs about $250.

@Self-DiscoveryExploration 2 месяца назад

😮

@EthanDominates 2 месяца назад

What type of snake is that at the start?

@OutbackMike 2 месяца назад

I’m not 100% sure. I couldn’t see its head. I’m guessing a tiger snake. There was a big brown just near it but it slid off as I turned the camera on.

@Maddiesrandomaccount 5 месяцев назад

good hiking Zara hahahahahahahahahah And I’m looking for your comment liv

@OutbackMike 5 месяцев назад

Thanks Maddie😊

@colvinscorner 5 месяцев назад

I believe the drone restriction is related to interference with wildlife from noisy drones that would fly over habitat that humans otherwise wouldn't hike into and disturb. At least that's the primary reason for drone restrictions in our parks in the US. A lot of drones, the ones I have been around at least, are quite loud similar to a weedwhacker. Not only are they annoying and break the peace of nature in a national park, they are quite disruptive to animals. I would assume it's similar in Australia and not really related to the privacy of people at all, cause you don't really have a right to privacy outside of using the restroom on public lands like a national park in the first place.

@OutbackMike 5 месяцев назад

Yes. I agree that seems to be the main argument. Small drones don’t make a great deal of noise though and most people respect wildlife and other people’s desire not to bothered by noise. I understand it can be undesirable for them to be in busy area’s but when there’s nobody around and you keep your distance from animals I think it should be allowed, as it is in states like Queensland. After a bunch of red tape and fees you can get usually get permission to fly in NSW National Parks. I think this process wastes time and money on both sides.

@TarmanTheChampion 2 месяца назад

Using synthetic materials for your socks, will make your feet, socks and shoes smell awful 😱😵 I guess it would serve as great predator deterrence hahaha

@dill5500 5 месяцев назад

So much damage to the environment on a 12” wide path vs that huge steel structure uglying up the ground

@OutbackMike 5 месяцев назад

It’s certainly jolting on the eye. I’m guessing it’s more heavily weighted to keeping people on the path in a whiteout although that’s normally achieved with pole markers.