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>Day 2, pack stuff and head off. All good for first bit, then we begin to reach 2m high, densely packed shrub.>Pain in the rear to get about in that, constantly turning back and all to find route again.>Eventually reach what seems to be a creek, filled with more dense shrub, horrible stuff to walk through. Not knowing how to get about it, we decide to bash further down 'stream' hoping to get to an opening. >Likethat'sgoingtohappen.png>Spend 45 minutes mindlessly and pointlessly bashing through shrub, eventually decide to go back to recognisable route and to go straight through the center.>Walk 15m, the shrub fucking disappears to show an opening. Holy #$%^&*!@#.>After easily getting through that, rise up onto ridge and find signs of trees stepped on by humans, no clear track, only indicators.>Going well, walking for ages.>Eventually reach some more shrub, got a bit confused, but keep going forward thinking that the track's still somewhere around the place, and that we'll HAVE to run into it.>Fucking hell. We were so wrong.>Bashed through so much shrub that I cannot explain the magnitude of, as well as crossing a few pain-in-rear gullies, the constant ascents, the ongoing decents, oh, the repetition.>All of the uphill climbs with the bush bashing, it just didn't end. >Turn on phone GPS, realise that we walked a few km's too far.>Many hours of work all thrown away, much water depleted, energy exhausted.>We turn back, repeating the gullies, the ascents, the descents, the bush bashing, though this time it's easier to a degree.>I can still hold on, one friend struggling, another fine for now, water carrier guy doing real well.>Reach unknown, somewhat clear location, hope is fading for all. We break for lunch.Lesson of the post, go straight through it, not around.
