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Features
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Beneath the Earth
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Slovenia is arguably one of Europe’s best kept adventure secrets, and its mountain biking is no exception.
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Big Wall Dreams
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How big a goal are you willing to set for yourself? Daygin Prescott, who started climbing less than two years prior, set off to California to attempt an ascent of one of the planet’s most famed big walls—El Capitan.
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Photo Essay
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Nowadays with social media and the internet, it seems that Australia has few east coast adventure spots left to “discover”. But that’s not entirely so, as Wild’s editor James McCormack shows in this photo essay.
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Conservation
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Forgotten Wilderness: The Spero-Wanderer region of western Tasmania deserves inclusion in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area. Wilderness conservation advocate, photographer, and long-time Wild contributor Grant Dixon has made several extended trips to the area in recent years to capture its stunning beauty.
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Marooned on the Western Arthurs
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When things go wrong, they can go really wrong, as Chris Newman tells the tale of a gastro-hit traverse of Tasmania’s challenging Western Arthurs
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Return to the Bungles
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As a kid, Ryan Hansen made a perhaps a dozen trips to NSW’s iconic Warrumbungle NP. But then came a more than decade-long break, during which the park was devastated by wildfires in 2013. Last year, he finally returned, with one question key on his mind: How much had changed?
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Track Notes:
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Victoria’s Wilsons Prom
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NZ Skitz Mish
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Shaun Mittwollen has made a name for himself skiing some of Tasmania’s wildest peaks. But when he went to NZ last year to tackle the high alpine in the Southern Alps, he found he was entering a whole new ball game.
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Fiascos
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When things go spectacularly wrong in the outdoors, it may not be fun. Funny, though; well, that’s another matter, because reading about the trials and tribulations of others can be, if not interesting, well, downright humorous. We asked the Wild community to send us in their stories of when things, well, haven’t worked out precisely to plan, with the promise of cool prizes from some of Wild’s advertising supporters to sweeten the pot.
Other smaller pieces
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Profile: Kerry Lowe
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In the heart of NSW’s Pilliga region, one man is quietly working on creating a trail network that is not only home to the Pilliga Ultra runnning festival, but that will help the campaign to protect the area.
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Avalanche
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Ange Malysheva gives an insightful first-hand account of being caught in a slide
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Conservation
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Cormorant culling is wreaking ecological havoc in the Gippsland Lakes
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The Wild Bunch: Five walks in QLD’s Sunshine Coast
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Getting Started
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Our regular columnists: Megan Holbeck; Tim Macartney-Snape; and Dan Slater
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Green Pages
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Our regular section on environmental news from around the country.