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Article: Communing with nature.
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- Quadrant
- Article date:
- July 1, 1999
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A family of keen bushwalkers who got lost overnight on a Victorian mountain range have blamed their misfortune on "the lack of signs on bushwalking tracks".
"A section of the walk was well-marked," said one of them, "but the signs suddenly stopped, causing us to take a wrong turn."
This would certainly not have happened had these mountain adventurers confined their walking to the designated wilderness facility in the Mt Reconciliation (formerly Mt Victoria & Albert) National Park north of Ghasthurst.
Since the park was privatised, all walkers have to be marked with an e-tag so that park traffic controllers can trace their movements on a ...