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Hi Graham
Prior to Trekking Kokoda we camped at the Caravan Park and I walked Mt Warning to the very top 5 times on five days in a row each time with a 10kgs pack. Whilst walking there is perhaps easier than Kokoda especially on good to reasonable tracks. Providing you do not miss out on the top tough hard 100 meter or so climb it is a good training walk for Kokoda.
I took Wallace Lemeki a KTL Guide up there with me on another occasion. It was quite hot and humid that day we even had some rain and he felt it was in some respects like Kokoda, however, there is nothing on the Kokoda trek equal to that stiff climb at the top.
Go for it as it is good training.
Hi Graham, one trekker from Burleigh Heads who is coming back this year for a 3rd time, suggests that any training should be done close to home as you can do this more often. What Geoff did, was to pick the steepest hill within a 5km of his home. On the way home from work at least four times a week, he would park the car put on his back pack (heavier then what he intended to carry on the track) and then he would walk up and down increasing the number as his fitness improved.
Another guy from Brisbane who has walked twice, did the majority of his training at a train station. He would go up and down the stairs time and time again. He laughed when he remarked that people may have thought he was crazy just looking at him, but it was good training for Kokoda. However you just cant walk up each step one by one. You should try mixing it up. Up one step…then skip the step in the middle and reach to the third step…then back to one by one…then the same again. If you repeat this over and over again on a regular weekly basis your legs will build up the strength needed to walk up the hills on the Kokoda Track.
If you can find a stairwell in a highrise even better! When I trained I used to walk up and down to the 12th floor. Its also hot inside as there is no aircon so you also feel the hot humid conditions as you train.
Hi Graham,
We live in QLD and found Mt Barney was the best training ground for us. In the wet, it was terrific and came about as close as we were going to get to resembling Kokoda conditions. Lots of steep climbs, lots of downhills, lots and lots of tree-roots (but nowhere near as many as Kokoda had lol!) and lots of slipperyness when it was wet. If you're up this way, it's a good all-round mountain to train on…
fluppy
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