On this page:

• A Guide to Better Bushwalking (South Australia)
• Walksafe (Victoria)

A Guide to Better Bushwalking

A Guide to Better Bushwalking is published by Bushwalking Leadership SA to help bushwalkers identify and address safety issues to consider.

Get some basic facts & information together so you can get outdoors and get involved in better bushwalking. Some of the best wild places are well off the beaten track, and a long way from help. So it is useful to be prepared before you go.

Topics covered include:

• When do I go?
• Where do I go?
• How long am I going for?
• Who do I tell?
• Who do I walk with?
• Where do I get water?
• What do I carry?
• What can I eat?
• How do I use a map?
• Who is responsible?
• Environmental considerations
• What about the weather?
• If all goes wrong…

Walksafe

Walksafe is published by Bushwalking Victoria as a set of guidelines for the inexperienced bushwalker and as a reminder to the more experienced of practices for safe and responsible walking in the bush.

Walksafe means advance planning of the:

• group
• route
• clothing
• equipment
• food
• water

Walksafe means using commonsense with:

• bushcraft
• camping
• minor mishaps

but, in the unlikely event of:

• becoming lost
• becoming separated
• major accident
• extreme heat
• extreme cold
• snakebite
• electrical storm/bushfire
• flooded river