Trip Safety and Wellbeing

We strongly recommend to any prospective hiking tour guest that it’s vitally important that they personally prioritise their safety and well-being of themselves and of others involved when participating on any trip.

This includes selecting a trip that is well suitable and well within their health, fitness and ability levels and also have clothing and gear suitably appropriate for the selected hiking grade of difficulty, hiking distance and forecast weather conditions.

The Blue Mountains weather is variable and can be fickle and its many hiking tracks vary in grades of difficulty from being easy to being very difficult.

At Nature Trail we take a particular interest in prioritising the safety and wellness of anyone involved on any of our trips as we explore the ‘great outdoors’ of Nature. To this extent we keenly research aspects of the natural environment in which we operate and share with visitors to the Blue Mountains region.

We categorise these aspects specifically as follows:

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(1) Wellness from Nature

(2) Good Hiking Health

(3) Good Hiking Fitness

(4) Suitable Hiking Clothing

(5) Suitable Hiking Gear

Recommendations for our tour guests to always include:

Hiking boots – purpose designed, ankle-high, light-weight, durable, water resistant, + spare pair of laces
Hiking socks – purpose designed, moisture-wicking, non-cotton, + carry 2 spare pairs
Hiking trousers – purpose designed, full length, thin woven blend of nylon and spandex
Hiking shirt – light weight, cotton (not polyester), collared, full arm length
Rucksack Kit to suit the particular trip
2 litres of drinking water (per day)
Trail snack kit – non-perishable, high-protein, salted, sugared
Sunhat, sunscreen, lipbalm
Rainjacket – light weight, with hood, pockets (bright coloured for emergencies)
Beanie (Peruvian woollen, alpaca, possum)
Jumper – 100% woollen/fleece/down puffer jacket
Grip gloves
Hiking poles (x2)
Hiking ground sheet
Emergency benighted bivy sack (your never know how vital if caught remote overnight)
Smartphone – fully pre-charged up

Please note that we offer hiring out a Rucksack Kit to any of our tour guests, replete with the basic essentials and we charge a nominal fee to cover costs.