I have been to some amazing places with work, and one such trip in February 2002, was to Cradle Mountain and the Overland Track to meet a dedicated team of workers.
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Reporter Fran Voss and I were given the task to go and have a look at the huts and new boardwalks.
Most bushwalkers tackle the 65km one-way hike in about six days, but Fran and I did it in one day in comfort.
Air work: Cradle Mountain senior ranger Hank Schinkel and hut warden Jeram Cowley help with the airlift of old boards from the Waterfall Valley hut area.
Some parts of the older boardwalk that had to be replaced due to erosion..
Plank work: Wesley Jordan, of Westbury, and Shane Burden, of Devonport, carry planks for a new section of boardwalk.
Track man: Team foreman, 57-year-old Robin Breward, has a rest on a section of the new boardwalk. He had been working the tracks for 10 years when we talked to him in February 2002
Mountain views from the verendah of the Pelion hut.
Tent zone: The tent platforms that were built at Windemere hut.
Self portrait: Photographer Paul Scambler with the view to Barn's Bluff.
Paul Scambler
photographer
Photographer with the Examiner for 36 years.
Photographer with the Examiner for 36 years.
