Neil Fahey (author at The Bushwalking Blog)

Caves, chasms, and crampons: Hiking Franz Josef Glacier – New Zealand

Posted by Neil Fahey | 16 Jan, 2014 | 2

It’s 43 degrees in my kitchen, so I’m sitting under the air-conditioner in the back...

Posted by Neil Fahey | 21 Dec, 2013 | 18

One of my long-held dreams is coming true, it would seem. I’m going to be co-author...

Posted by Neil Fahey | 11 Dec, 2013 | 0

It’s a tried and tested formula – place characters in situations where they...

Posted by Neil Fahey | 24 Nov, 2013 | 4

Hiking up a Guatemalan volcano to roast marshmallows on the radiant heat from flowing lava? I’d...

Posted by Neil Fahey | 17 Oct, 2013 | 8

I used to be a couch potato. A nature-loving couch potato, but a couch-potato all...

Posted by Neil Fahey | 14 Oct, 2013 | 10

We can theorise all we like about how to hike with kids. The problem is, these things don’t...

Posted by Neil Fahey | 18 Jul, 2013 | 2

Even the most hardcore hikers need to relax sometimes, right? So sitting down to a few hours worth...

Posted by Neil Fahey | 11 Jul, 2013 | 4

Only an hour and a half west of Sydney, Katoomba is the perfect place to base yourself for any...

Posted by Neil Fahey | 27 Jun, 2013 | 4

It’s approaching four years since I hiked the Inca Trail, so I thought it was about time for...

Posted by Neil Fahey | 13 Jun, 2013 | 35

A chorus of birds surrounds me but, oddly, I can make out each individual call as if there were no...