Goldfields Track Walk or Ride Guide (2nd edition)

Gib Wettenhall

Goldfields Track Walk or Ride Guide (2nd edition)
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Country
Published
30 November 2017
ISBN
9780975777886

Goldfields Track Walk or Ride Guide (2nd edition)

Gib Wettenhall

Now rebranded as the Goldfields Track Walk or Ride Guide, this is the newly updated edition of the Goldfields Track guidebook, and has been designed to more fully incorporate mountain bikers as well as walkers.

‘A sense of place’ has deliberately been fostered by sourcing the guide’s designer, writers, cartographer and photographers from the central Victorian goldfields region.

Recently upgraded to become the longest shared mountain bike riding and walking track in Victoria, the 210km Goldfields Track stretches from Mt Buninyong via Ballarat, Creswick, Daylesford and Castlemaine to Bendigo. Now the track’s original band of volunteer builders, the Great Dividing Trail Association (GDTA), has published via em PRESS a comprehensive full colour guide complete with 33 large scale (1:25,000) contour maps painstakingly produced by VicMap. As the the publications manager for the GDTA, Gib Wettenhall acted as the lead writer and producer of the guide.

The map spreads are sandwiched between sections offering expert essays on, first, reading the landscape - from the underlying geology to the diverse range of plants and animals, through to the marks left behind by the various mining techniques employed during what is often described as “the greatest the gold rush the world has ever seen.” The second series of essays offers the cultural heritage context.

The Goldfields Track - more than any other walking or bike trail in this country - embraces the rich heritage left behind in the forests and gullies, beside creeks and rivers, and on plains and mountaintops.

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