Ya know... there are resupply points along your route!?
Spoonie, G'day. I'm right up on it. I'm aware of the possibilities of limited resupplying but I choose not to need resupplying except for booze. I even know the names of the shops and the supermarkets that have camping sections and the rural supplies stores with camping sections in Khancoban and at Omeo. Being totally self-reliant gives me fantastic flexibility. One thing that I've learnt from the BNT over the past 20 years is set no schedules or distance targets for a day and look around a lot. If I don't make it to Omeo it will not matter. Next time will do.
Khancoban is the only town that I'll go through before Omeo. Twice a day there is a bus from Khancoban into Corryong. Corryong is a loss too apart from food. Neither towns have what I need, high-performance 'ISO-butane/propane' fuel for a Kovea stove.
Here are three things that make my journeys, safer and more relaxed.
A MSR Sweetwater ceramic water filter. Not for the pristine streams in the mountains, but for on the TSRs and any turbid farm dams that I pass.
... and a traditional UCO candle lantern with a 12 hour candle. I have a stack of 12hr candles. One candle will last me 3 nights. This lantern isn't for illumination but for keeping the humidity down in the tent. There is nothing better than packing up a dry tent in the Alps in the morning and not having condensation pool on the floor of the tent, wetting a down bag. In the photo, the spring that pushes the candle to the top of the lantern, is only around the candle so that it stands out in the photo. The candle is hung off a carabiner from a tab in the tent.
The tent is a Macpac 3.2kg expedition style. I take a light weight fly as well, for cooking under.
It was only 3ºC last night at Omeo. My sleeping bag is rated to -10ºC and I've a silk inner. I'll need every bit of that rating, in the mountains.
Warren.
PS, I still have to send to the LHPA and the BNT Association an application for TSR permits ... and bring my NSW Inland Waters fishing licence to current for when I'm away. I like trout and yabbies. The bag limit for yabbies is 200 per day ... 200? Bear Grills eats live yabbie. 'Man Vs Wild' and 'Into the Wild' scenarios are not for softies like me.