Australian Hiker

274-Australian Hiker 7th Birthday

Show notes

On 11 November 2023 Australian Hiker celebrated its 7th birthday. In this episode we reflect on our past year, and look at where we are heading over the coming year.

Podcast Overview

In this episode we talk about Australian Hiker’s past year:

Podcast Introduction (time index 00:01:29)
Year 7 retrospective (time index 00:01:41)
- Podcast (time index 00:01:47)
  - Now 274 podcast episodes released in total making continuing our run as Australia’s longest running and most downloaded hiking podcast
  - Over 1,000,000 total episode downloads
  - A worldwide audience
  - 2024 podcast plans
- Blog in general (time index 00:03:43)
  - General overview
  - Over 1200 posts released (up 113 since last year)
    - Average around 2/week
- Top posts since out last birthday in 2022 (time index 00:4:33)
  - Trail reviews
    - Cape to Cape Walk (WA)
    - Murramarang South Coast Walk (NSW)
    - Guthega to Charlotte Pass Walk (NSW)
  - Advice articles
    - Hiking in the Australian Alps
  - Podcasts
    - Episode 270 Triple Crown with hiker Simon Morris
    - Episode 249 Adventure Expo-Trade show
    - Episode 238 Guthega to Charlotte Pass Walk Podcast
    - Episode 257 Murramarang South Coast Walk Podcast
- Downside (time index 00:08:16)
  - Light-on hike reviews over the past 12 months
    - Why?
- Where to next?
- (time index 00:09:04)(time index 00:09:04)
  - Walks
    - More regular was reviews for 2024
  - Advice articles
    - A backlog of 99 articles to draw from (that will last us a few years!)
  - Gear reviews
    - 100 gear reviews planned for 2024
  - Reviewing the reviews (still) (time index 00:14:33)
  - Trade shows 2024
  - Walks 2024
Thank you

Close (time index 00:18:52)

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