Walshs Pyramid is an enjoyable but challenging walk. To get there catch the local Gordonvale bus from Cairns and hop off at the Intersection of the Bruce Highway and Giles Highway at Gordonvale.
The daytime temperature was 35 degrees C with a humidity way off the charts on the day I climbed Walshs Pyramid. I choose to climb at night where it was an annoying 29 degrees C, It was almost a full moon so it was light when I turned my headlamp off.
I was wearing microfiber trousers and a cotton tee, the air felt particularly moist allnight, It wasnt until daylight I could see that I had been walking through clouds. My phone with the cracked screen from Mount Walsh went cactus and a picture of that Andoid with his chest open and a broken heart(?) appeared, my compact camera took a knock and it is also cactus.
Rubbing salt into my wounds half a dozen young Americans came jogging up the Mountain in a quarter of the time it took me(and I am being generous to myself).
Ralph Waldo Emerson said “Life is a journey, not a destination.” At least I had a pleasant journey.
The daytime temperature was 35 degrees C with a humidity way off the charts on the day I climbed Walshs Pyramid. I choose to climb at night where it was an annoying 29 degrees C, It was almost a full moon so it was light when I turned my headlamp off.
I was wearing microfiber trousers and a cotton tee, the air felt particularly moist allnight, It wasnt until daylight I could see that I had been walking through clouds. My phone with the cracked screen from Mount Walsh went cactus and a picture of that Andoid with his chest open and a broken heart(?) appeared, my compact camera took a knock and it is also cactus.
Rubbing salt into my wounds half a dozen young Americans came jogging up the Mountain in a quarter of the time it took me(and I am being generous to myself).
Ralph Waldo Emerson said “Life is a journey, not a destination.” At least I had a pleasant journey.