The Tassie Traverse - The Full Story

Shane Hutton - 1 man, 1 pair of legs, 672kms, 13 days of running, over 12,000m of ascent, over $10,000 raised for Shake It Up.

Remote, wilderness bush-bashing, 3 nights self supported bush camping, overgrown, unmarked trails, rough river crossings in a row boat, remote aircraft food drop, lots of mud and lots of leeches...mmm leeches!

Iconic Tassie trails.  The Penguin to Cradle trail, the Overland Track, the Adamsfield and Sawback Tracks, the Port Davey Track, the South Coast Track.  Plus a spiderweb of linking forestry trails, private land, backwater tracks and some bush bashing!

PART 1 - Woolnorth To Penguin

"I got the first 2km under the belt, and all of a sudden there's this Tassie Devil running towards me.  Holy crap!  What do I do?  We both stoppend dead, it was looking at me, and I was looking at it..."  

PART 2 - Penguin TO Cradle Mountain

"....and just like that I slipped in… Arrrrrrghhhhhhh the river was flowing fast & I had fallen in up to my chest, I quickly got up and out of the water very angry with myself for letting this happen. Oh man I’m wet my pack was wet everything in it was wet… It was getting dark how could I let this happen.. I was so angry with myself...."

Tassie TraversE - A Short Movie