"As a proud Bundjalung man of the Widjabul Wia-bal clan, he also has a personal connection to the project: the southern half of the track runs through his people's lands. (The Minjungbal people are the custodians of the northern part of the track.) To minimise environmental damage, the Gidjuum Gulganyi (meaning Old People's track) largely follows ancient walking trails that skirt the southern rim of the Tweed Caldera, created when the massive Wollumbin volcano, formerly Mount Warning, erupted 23m years ago."
"Ashley Moran clearly remembers the first time he completed the new four-day Gidjuum Gulganyi Walk in northern New South Wales, long before it opened to the public in April this year. It was 2020 and the newest NSW Great Walk wasn't even a track. It had been pink-tagged by the trail construction company, but it was pretty arduous trying to navigate through dense rainforest and find those little pink ribbons, he says."
A four-day, 42km Gidjuum Gulganyi Walk opened in April, developed from work begun in 2018. Bundjalung custodians from Widjabul Wia-bal and Minjungbal clans collaborated with NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service and local land councils. The route largely follows ancient walking trails along the southern rim of the Tweed Caldera, limiting new construction to 19km to minimise environmental damage. The track traverses warm temperate and subtropical rainforests, palm forests, waterfalls and open valleys that have sustained people for tens of thousands of years. Early ground-truthing in 2020 required navigating pink-tagged route markers through dense rainforest.
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